Hairy Dreams
(2024)
Concept, film direction, choreography: Lina Cruz
A film of dance and installation
Length : 8 min 57 secs
Hairy Dreams premiered in Montreal as part of the official selection of the International Festival of Films on Art - FIFA 42.
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The film also participated in the Spring Edition of Toronto's Alternative Film Festival, nominated in the Short Films category for two sub-categories:
Best Experimental Short Film (North America)Best Dance Short Film
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Cinematography: Xavier Madore
Dancer: Geneviève Robitaille
Music: Philippe Noireaut
Editing: Lina Cruz
Assistant editor: Xavier Madore
Filming team: La Conserve Média
Sound mastering: Frédéric Salter
A Hairy Dream Song: composed and performed by Philippe Noireaut
Text and voice: Lina Cruz
Costumes, scenography and props: Lina Cruz
Production: Fila 13 Productions
Hairy Dreams portrays the inner world of a solitary carefree character. This visually abstract narrative unfolds within a white cave-like space constructed of paper. Inside an origami-like igloo, a surreal collection of images exposes the daily life of an androgynous figure. Through a series of disparate actions, the character continuously constructs and deconstructs its transparent inner world. In this pursuit of an "interior castle", time is a constant presence, haunting yet of valuable companionship. Ultimately, the character’s daily routine leads to its primary goal: the vital need to nourish itself in order to keep the dream flowing.
About Fila 13's previous works -
Tic-Tac Party
- Tic-Tac Party - "Lina Cruz's dance vocabulary is decidedly audacious and offers unique findings, as amidst a madness in which her surreal imagination is playfully complicit (...)
Guylaine Massoutre
Revue de Théâtre JEU, March 2017 -
Morphs
- "(...) this work by Lina Cruz, Morphs
- "(...) The unconscious, joyfully unveiled, is carried with versatile sensibility. It is an insatiable spotlight focused on the most colorful and vigorous of imaginations."
imprinted with as much sensuality as humour, as much physical prowess as audacity, is a true gift for the senses. (...)."
Yanik Comeau
Zone Culture, November 17 2021
Guylaine Massoutre
Spirale Magazine, octobre 2021