A father imagines for his daughter an architecture for the future within a structure of the past. 

This work was conceived within a video-dance workshop by Silvina Szperling, Susana Temperley and other Latin American colleagues. Due to the lack of a possible physical meeting with professional dancers, I decided to find alternative themes and forms of videodance. In this opportunity I tried to focus on the gestures and the daily spaces, to capture a moment of reality and turn it into something else. I loved working with my father and finding an artistic dynamic with him, and the spontaneity of the result makes me want to continue pursuing those unique forms of movement that we all have. 

Pigeon House

Inspired by Las Criadas de Monterroso (Monterroso’s Maids), this short film combining fiction and screendance presents a maid ballerina who embodies the voices of two stock radio drama lovers who plan to murder the character of Maid with their own hands. In a theatrical setting captured in one circular tracking shot, objectivity begins to break down as the body struggles to expose all that is incorporeal, making the question arise as to where exactly the boundary between mind and expression lies. 

Maids is a short film about the blurred boundaries between dreams and reality, and what happens to the body when imagination is set free of the passive routine. The film was created with the main intention of exploring the concept of limits. The central figure of Maid, not unlike any of us, is torn between her boundless imagination and the reality of her existence, where she fights the constraints of her own body. This notion was one that ran throughout the film’s production; the cinematography, sound, performance, art direction, all serve as borders that separate what is from what is not real. This was also my first short film and was made while studying at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, and the journey of making it has been how I came to love the expressive possibilities that dance and researching movement can provide. 

Maids

Inedit Rose is a hypnotic transept which appropriates the musical film, decontextualises its clichés and focus on its plastic elements and the gender dynamics among its performers. The psycho-electronic spoken word music of the Valencia and Barcelona based band Versonautas guides the process. 

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