::.LIMINAL
is a dance/performance based art film experience that uses Berlin’s architecture as a second skin to create a visual choreography of the contemporary experience of liminality and the need of becoming in our current historic moment.
The project stems out of a transdisciplinary choreographic research applying architectural videomapping techniques to explore the idea of liminality by establishing a correlative dialogue between individual post-pandemic experiences of confinement and site specific locations in Berlin with a symbolic weight.
::.LIMINAL is conceived as multi-format film, an expanded cinema experience. It is:
*An artfilm based on videomapped projections of performative bodies trapped in the architecture/history of the city of Berlin. The video projections in public space, which are filmed, serve as the edit contents to create the film.
*Live-cinema: an event where the contents of the film are remixed live and re-composed onto, either a videomapped architecture (building) ,or on a screen as performance with live sound art/music, resulting a different experience every time.
*A dance/performance film, which uses the body in movement as its main expressive vessel.
*An immersive video installation (work in progress 2023) that narrates and re-conceptualises in fragmented form the contents of the film through experiences of liminality and set-ups in a project space.
To watch the experimental short film, please contact us for private screenings and festivals.
By now the city moved from a secondary role to a protagonist one, and in this short-film the city became a choreography on itself. The conceptual framework Gabriel proposed for this part of the project was highly poetic: he wanted to convey the (platonic) idea of “the city on the projected city”, as a resignification, as if it would be trapped in its own palimpsest self.
Paz Ponce- “Urban dramaturgy notes for ::.LIMINAL
Continue reading the contextual curatorial notes here: Paz Ponce Portfolio
::.Making of
Watch the Making Of :::.LIMINAL and learn about the creative process behind it, the contextual and symbolic approach to the locations and the logics behind the projections and choreography.