To Touch the House of Memory [2010 - in development]
Short Film by Tereza Stehlikova
Director of Photography - Grant Gee
The film is a exploration of childhood memories attached to the specific location of
the city and the house I grew up in. It contemplates the concept of memory from the Jungian
perspective of the unconscious while employing the sense of touch to assist in bringing
these memories to the surface, so that they can be embodied in the present tense of the film
rather than re-lived.
Palpable Play [2010]
A live action / animated film, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s 'Midsummer’s Night Dream', which searches for glimpses of the magical in the everyday, celebrating the great power of the imagination and its ability to transform the most mundane settings into a mysterious dreamscape.
The Rare Theatricall’s latest project is set to be the group’s boldest and most ambitious work to date. Taking a visual approach to both the popular and lesser-known poetry of William Shakespeare, this unique collective of musicians, dancers, puppeteers and animators open up the literary works, finding new expressive possibilities in an exploration of both Baroque and contemporary performance practices. The TRT players will provide a live musical backdrop to the performances with incidental music from John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Matthew Locke’s The Tempest. Dancers will re-tell the classic tales, merging baroque steps with contemporary movement; shadow puppets with digital projection and period instrumentalists with stop-motion animation.
