Stems,
Video screening with live sound in custom cinema.

Starring:
Verity Coward, Leah Walker, Duncan Gibbs, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Andy Wyatt, Nina Porter, Joe Davies, Ruth Angel Edwards, Chloée Maugile, Simone Mine Koza & Yuki Nishimura

Cameos from:
Sholto Dobie & Grace Black

Sound by:
Alex Mckenzie & Tom Hardwick-Allan

Screens, set, cinema design:
Joe Davies & Joe Highton

Production:
George Lynch, Joe Davies & Joe Highton

Palaeolithic examples of live broadcast,
It has been suggested that palaeolithic peoples used camera obscuras to hunt, making a small hole in the side of a tent, so they would have been able to watch an upside down projection of the nearby wildlife, waiting patiently until an animal walked into the frame. One or two would jump out to chase the animal, taking it in turns throughout the day. This would leave the other members of the group inside the cinema, watching the widescreen projection of the wrestle with an antelope or a pig. These small audiences would sit upside down in the tent, sharing the remaining seeds and nuts. Over time, not fully satisfied with the repetitive story lines, the groups began to develop more complex dramas. Using jurassic park style costume rigs, the animals began to talk back, and with the collaboration of a local pyrotechnic and esteemed storyteller, they began production of more turbulent narratives.

(photos by us and Daniel Gatenio)

The Horse Hospital
London, WC1N 1JD

July 2023