some of our various filming styles/situations:
offstage, or in this case understage, before the big show, we caught actors each in their unique position, each with their own way of preparing...
we shot this same framing of the Theater-Truck at each show, to later edit them all together with varying backgrounds... here, we're in El Alto
often, though, our stage was a plaza, cobbled or dirt... here, we're in the Afro-Bolivian town of Mururata, outside of Coroico... check out the shadow
in a few instances, we gave up our cameras... for instance, each character filmed themselves, spinning till dizzy...
we had each actor interact with their character, or each character interact with their actor... in other words, each person had two onscreen personalities interacting with each other live... lots of playing with doubles, shadows, reflections, projections...
really, working with doubles, shadows, reflections and projections is the only way to go in the land of illusion... this is the view from the ground floor of the COMPA building, looking up the central airshaft.... you can get a sense for all the reflections that we were dealing with while filming here - there are no real walls: the place is made almost entirely of recycled windows and doors with windows in them. so we decided to run with it.
another landscape... hard to resist...
a local kid tries on transforming himself into the kusillo, mythical andean trickster
I like this photo... feel like I can really hear all the chaos in the streets, and yet am as calm as Nico about it all...
the creative team, getting in on the shadowplay, hee hee!
offstage, or in this case understage, before the big show, we caught actors each in their unique position, each with their own way of preparing...
we shot this same framing of the Theater-Truck at each show, to later edit them all together with varying backgrounds... here, we're in El Alto
often, though, our stage was a plaza, cobbled or dirt... here, we're in the Afro-Bolivian town of Mururata, outside of Coroico... check out the shadow
in a few instances, we gave up our cameras... for instance, each character filmed themselves, spinning till dizzy...
we had each actor interact with their character, or each character interact with their actor... in other words, each person had two onscreen personalities interacting with each other live... lots of playing with doubles, shadows, reflections, projections...
really, working with doubles, shadows, reflections and projections is the only way to go in the land of illusion... this is the view from the ground floor of the COMPA building, looking up the central airshaft.... you can get a sense for all the reflections that we were dealing with while filming here - there are no real walls: the place is made almost entirely of recycled windows and doors with windows in them. so we decided to run with it.
another landscape... hard to resist...
a local kid tries on transforming himself into the kusillo, mythical andean trickster
I like this photo... feel like I can really hear all the chaos in the streets, and yet am as calm as Nico about it all...
the creative team, getting in on the shadowplay, hee hee!
