• Ilusión y Realidad, Fundación Antonio Saura (Cuenca, Spain, 2010-11)
• Laboratorio de Arte Joven del Instituto de la Juventud de Murcia (Murcia, Spain, 2010)
• Instituto Riojano de la Juventud (Logroño, Spain, 2010)
• Dance:Film (Dance Base, Edinburgh, 2010)
• At Play 2 (South Hill Park, 2010)
• Sala Borron (Oviedo, Spain, 2010)
• Palacio de Medrano (Ciudad Real, Spain, 2010)
• Factory (Phoenix Arts, Brighton, 2010)
• The Ausform Performative Screen (Bristol, 2010)
• Sala de Exposiciones Unamuno (Salamanca, Spain, 2010)
• Cinecity Festival (Brighton, 2009)
• The Scientist International Videoart Festival (Ferrara, Italy, 2009)
• BAC Graduates Festival (London, 2009)
• National Review of Live Art - Elevator (Glasgow, 2009)
• Final Cut Film of the Year Show (Brighton, 2009)
• EDIT International Dance Film Festival – British Films selection (Budapest, 2009)
• Il Coreografo Elettronico, Napolidanza (Naples, Italy, 2009)
• ACT International Festival (Bilbao, Spain, 2009)
• EmergeAndSee Film Festival (Berlin, 2009)
• Dance for Camera Festival “Experimental Perspectives” (South East Dance, Brighton, 2008).
• Beyond Film Festival, (Durham, 2008).
• The Supper Club, The Basement, (Brighton 2008).
• ACTART6, (London, 2008).
• Lighthouse Univille, (Brighton, 2008).
2008
"I want to see
The population
Of the entire world,
United, reunited,
Enjoying the simplest act on Earth:
Biting an apple."
(Pablo Neruda, "Ode to the Apple")
The Impossibility of Being an Apple is a film
not-just-to-be-watched, a live game between screen
and audience where performers become viewers,
viewers, performers and nobody becomes an apple.
The viewers are provided with an apple when entering
the screening space. The film will invite them to
perform different tasks with it and with the other
persons around them: to touch, to smell, to
‘acknowledge’…
Combining animation, choreography and performance for
camera with the instructions for the audience, the
film transforms its screening into a playful live
event and the cinema space into a performative site,
activating the live context of watching.
The Impossibility of Being an Apple is a
bizarre story about impossible transformations, the
possibility of changing and the impossibility of
being someone else. An invitation to play and to
enjoy the beauty of the simplest acts of life.
Created and devised by Clara García Fraile.
Sound and music by Sam Pearson.
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'First Prize for Performance and New
Tendencies' in the Young Artists
Awards 2009, Junta de Castilla y Leon
(Spain)
•
“The Impossibility of Being an
Apple was charming and unpretentious stuff; our
participation as an audience unthreatening. I came
away feeling beguiled and light in my
heart”. (Sarah Bryant, “A Personal
Introduction to Performance Art")
“Once every so often a film is submitted that defies
categorization.” (Final Cut)
2010 • Me and the Machine | Website designed by Parachutes and Puzzles | Associated artists of The Basement
