One week from today, I, our producer Belimar and our cameraman Mau will fly from Buenos Aires to Bolivia to begin filming! We are excited and busy, full of energy and inspiration, taking the deep breath before the plunge. And we're talking crazy ideas... here's a couple:
-filming suspended from a harness during the play - becoming part of the show, and allowing for swooping crane shots!
- projecting earlier parts of the play later on in the same performance, so that characters can interact with the images of the their past selves
- projecting the image of the actor not in their role, so that the actor in their role from the play, interacts with themselves, for a live audience
In case you haven't heard, the folks that we're working with in Bolivia are some of the most incredible people around, with creative social work like no other that I've encountered in the world. From a mine in their basement for interactive educational plays on Bolivian history (kids "work" in the mines and have to organize to get their wages), to a rolling mobile school for street kids, to huge cultural centers made mostly out of recycled materials, they do it all. Below, I've attached some images of their creative shenanigans.
Check out Teatro Trono and their parent organization, COMPA:
http://compatrono.com/
And definitely check them out if they come to your part of the world - they regularly tour Europe, the US, Brazil, elsewhere...
Keep spreading the word!
