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sin∞fin #3 – Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass

In the concluding episode of the "sin∞fin" trilogy, the two characters move through the deserted, icy vastness of an oneiric land. They find themselves torn between life and death, absence and misleading mirages, fortune and emptiness. The flux of nature is mercilessly immense, where the wind sings its laments and silence its lullaby. All paradises are merciless, in a search for beauty where anything is a mirror. Is there any game left to be played, is there someone left to call for, when clocks don’t display time anymore, and no compass is guiding one’s way? Whose turn is it, when civilization has lost its quotidian schemes, and just basic rules count? In the backdrop of Antarctica, a place where humans have neither roots, nor a future, but only a frail and temporary presence always at risk, all questions inevitably lead to humbleness.

  • VestAndPage
    Director
  • Verena Stenke
    Director
  • Andrea Pagnes
    Director
  • VestAndPage
    Writer
  • Andrea Pagnes
    Writer
  • VestAndPage
    Producer
  • Verena Stenke
    Producer
  • Andrea Pagnes
    Producer
  • VestAndPage
    Key Cast
  • Verena Stenke
    Cinematography
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Genres:
    Environment, Philosophy, Documentary, Performance art, Travel, Ecology, Climate, Antarctica, Wilderness
  • Runtime:
    45 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 12, 2012
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Antarctica, Argentina
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    HD digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fifth Free International Forum Creative Life
    Bolognano
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • Videobardo
    Buenos Aires
    Official Selection
  • Proceso de Error - Festival Internacional de Video Experimental
    Valparaiso
    Chile
    Official Selection
  • Strangelove: Performance and Documentary
    London
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Venice International Performance Art Week
    Venice
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • Recent Acquisition Screening of Video Out Distribution
    Vancouver
    Canada
    Official Selection / Distribution Acquisition
  • DoubleRoom arti visive
    Trieste
    Italy
  • FADO Performance Art Centre
    Toronto
    Canada
  • KARST Gallery
    Plymouth
    United Kingdom
  • Singapore Art Week
    Singapore
    Singapore
    Official Selection | IAA Independent Art Archive
  • Resquicios al Sur
    Mexico City
    Mexico
  • ]performance s a l o n [
    London
    United Kingdom
  • International Triennial of Extended Media
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    Official Selection
  • SPANE: Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment
    Toronto
    Canada
    Official Selection
  • FILE Electronic Language International Festival
    São Paolo
    Brazil
    Official Selection
  • Dia de los Museos
    Mexico City
    Mexico
  • Mantova Creativa
    Mantova
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • SUR POLAR V - Arte en Antartida
    Xalapa
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival
    Nicosia
    Cyprus
  • CINEMA X
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • KAPAS Festival
    Murcia
    Spain
    Official Selection
  • ALCHEMY Film and Moving Images Festival
    Hawick
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Transmuted Festival
    Acapulco
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • Habeas Corpus
    Cordoba
    Argentina
    Official Selection
  • SUR POLAR IV - Arte en Antartida @ MAT Museo de Arte Tigre
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    Official Selection
  • Omissis Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
    Gradisca d'Isonzo
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • Night With Performance
    Bydgozcz
    Poland
  • Fundacion Alumnos47 @ Cine Tonalá
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • Rapid Pulse
    Chicago
    United States
  • CONTEXTS Festival of Ephemeral Art
    Sokolowsko
    Poland
    Official Selection
  • The Hardest Condition: Actions on the Edge
    Sao Paolo
    Official Selection
  • ROCK/BODY - Performative Interfaces Between The Geologic And The Body
    Exeter
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Performance HUB
    Belgrade
    Serbia
  • Blackout Cinema Showcase
    Basel
    Switzerland
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • PAV Performance Art Video
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Video on Demand, Pay Per View
Director Biography - VestAndPage, Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes

Since 2006, German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian-born artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together as VestAndPage and gained international recognition in the fields of performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing, and collective performance operas and temporary artistic community projects. For over a decade, VestAndPage have been exploring performance art and film as a phenomenon through their collaborative creative practice, as well as through theoretical artistic research and curatorial projects. Their works have been presented in museums, galleries, theatres, cinemas and a variety of sites worldwide. They are devoted to a poetic approach in experimental, personal filmmaking based on performance art, questioning the perception of reality, and how we process and store information. For VestAndPage, film can delude space-time, open the unconscious as a creative vessel, and reveal processes and relations by linking apparently disconnected persons, things and happenings.

Between 2010 and 2012 they produced their trilogy of performance-based short films "sin∞fin" in Antarctica, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and India. Between 2014 and 2018, VestAndPage produced "Plantain", an award-winning art film based on their month-long performance walk from Northern Germany through Poland to the Russian region of Kaliningrad in May/June 2015. The project is based on true historic events of the escape of Stenke's family in the civil exodus from former East Prussia in winter 1945. In 2020 they published "Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto On Performance-Based Filmmaking" as a video article inquiring their practice on the Journal of Embodied Research. The same year saw them producing "ANAM CARA – Mirror in the Mirror" through co-creation in lockdown with 22 international performance artists, as well as "AMOR AND PSYCHE (In Times of Plagues)", a short about the nature of breath.
They are currently in post-production for their performance-based feature "STRATA" on Deep Time, realized in collaboration with over 20 artists and scientists in the caves of the Swabian Jura. They are developing "momentum", a series of video conversations on existential subjects with people from the arts, culture and science.
They have authored and produced numerous other video art works and experimental shorts based on performance art, are lecturers at the Master of Performance Practice in Arnhem (NL), as well as the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week.

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