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Paris is Burning is a documentary, created by  Jennie Livingston in 1990. The documentary focuses on the ballroom and drag scene in the late 80s, showing the lgbtq lifestyle at the time and the problems these people faced, through the narration of several different important people for ballroom culture. I chose to post this because i was inspired by the idea of a social documentary, formed by narrations.

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I made this track with the idea of describing an event or an image and i was fashinated by how a song can have the same structure of a play. I could also imagine combining this track with  movement or a performance

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Requiem for a Dream is a film by Aronofsky 

A movie about four people’s dreams and how these dreams turned out as nightmares in the most realistic way possible

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Jordan Kaseys 

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https://youtu.be/WZ_Pb11_DLo https://youtu.be/6eLPkrGF2Sg Arca is a Venezuelan artist dj and producer who makes electronic music, performance art and installations. Her music is very personal and focuses on phychology, her shows are also very impressive as she makes performances with easthetic clothes and backgrounds. I chose this post because Im inspired by the fact that his music accuretly represents feelings or causes feelings.

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Aisha Devi is a Swiss DJ artist with her music she explores issues of spirituality and awareness.She is an independent artist that also has her own label, Devi's is a soprano but chooses to explore this through electronic music. Her methodology involves frequencies, meditation, chanting and spatially disruptive visuals. She aims to create healing music while also exploring her heritage and roots. I was interested by the concept of creating a play that aims to affect people psychologically through senses 

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Andrew Thomas Huang is a Chinese American filmmaker and digital artist . He is an experimental filmmaker with a background in puppetry, animation, live action performance and visual effects, Huang's work bridges the gap between video art and film, expanding beyond into installation and alternative modes of storytelling. I was specificly interested by his use of body movement, he combines it with digital art or an installation and it looks like live puppetry. Except from that I was fascinated by his combination of movement and texture wich makes his work seem alive.

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Render Ghost is an immersive theatrical work with virtual reality scenario created by new media art collective NAXS Corp. The participants have to put on VR devices. Then, they are able to walk slowly into the white inflated balloon-like tent. With the guide of the virtual scenario, the viewers move along the tower of spiral structure on foot. When stepping onto the top of the tower, the viewers have to take off VR equipment and merely immerse themselves in the hyperreal scenario that consisting of lighting, laser beams, smoke, sound, floating particles and blowing wind. this whole ceremony moves around the philosophical meaning of technology and its relation to humans how the infinite desire recourse enhances our relationship with technology. 

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Remedios Varo is a Mexican artist born in 1908 and died in 1963. She is a surrealist very significant for the surrealist movement in Mexico. She joined the avant-garde artists’ group Logicophobista were she met another very famous woman surrealist Leonora Carrington. Varo’s first pursuits in Mexico City were in commercial art, interior and costume design, and restoration of pre-Columbian pottery. In large part, her paintings are populated with strange humans engaged in mystical and alchemical activity in dreamlike atmospheres. I chose this artist because she inspires me to use symbolism in different ways while also some of her works give me ideas on how I could stage a symbolism

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A dance-horror film by Gaspar Noe located in a school where a group of dancers gathered together for rehearsal when suddenly after its too late, they discover that someone has put lsd in their drink and everyone goes crazy. I chose this post because I liked how it puts the audience in a position where they see a social experiment or a social situation. 

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La jetee created in 1962 by Chris Marker is a Post-apocalyptic science fiction short movie which is made of photos which make up a story. The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation. It is considered one of the most influential and radical science fiction films of all time.

Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist. He is influenced from time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet.

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Gandini Juggling is a theatre company formed in 1992 by Gandini. Gandini Juggling celebrates juggling in all its facets, exploring not just what juggling is, but what juggling can be. Since their creation, they have performed over 5,000 shows in 50 countries. They are influenced by composers, ballet choreographers, fashion designers, computer programmers, sound designers, set makers and mathematicians. They aim to reposition juggling as a versatile and engaging art form for our times by engaging in a complex dialogue with the audience, demanding the viewers’ engagement, transcending cultural barriers and stimulating imaginations.           

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Thomas Ostermeier is a German director born in 1968, he often depicts the harsh realities of life. Ostermeier became known for his genre of Capitalist realism. This aesthetic forces his audience to watch the violence of reality caused by a ruthless capitalist system. This often is sarcastic and critisizes the blindness of the people with this he seeks to challenge the audience by presenting the problems of society in Germany and Europe. He uses this capitalist realism on classical famous plays like Henrik Ibsen's a dollhouse. 

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Godlight theatre company, is a theatre company based in New York. Godlight is committed to bring new and underperformed texts to the stage.It creates original adaptations of modern classical literature from the 20th and 21st century, they transport the many characters and landscapes of a novel to the stage. The ensemble and creative team of Godlight Theatre Company explore new plays informed by the issues of life in contemporary America. Their approach to translating literature to the stage is unique in the landscape of New York Theatre. The company is made out of actors, designers and other creatives. Almost every member of the team, on any given project, is a returning collaborator. 

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Hannes Wallrafen is a highly acclaimed Dutch/German photographer who lost his eyesight 10 years ago at the height of his career. Wallrafen is famous for his staged photography through which he seeks to translate time into engineered images. His work can be regarded as personal interpretations of local history: storytelling at its core.

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Bea Camacho is a Philippine artist that presents many issues like memory, distance from home, the security of feeling comfortable etc with everyday materials and in simple ways. She is most well known for her “Enclose” series, where she would sit through hours-long live performances of her crocheting herself into a cocoon, with one even lasting up to 11 hours. Camacho’s work is simple, sparse, intense. Conceptual in nature, she often uses ordinary objects and is able to magnify aspects of them, injecting meaning and sentimentality in something that we otherwise might not have thought about at all. In “Memento Obliviscere,” Camacho explores the extent and limits of memory. That, as humans, the things we remember inevitably deteriorate. It’s easy to forget things as time goes on and it’s even easier to misremember events, facts, and details.