laia cabrera - Is There An Edge Of Belief

Is there an edge of belief? (2009)

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Is there an edge of belief?

Is there an edge of belief? (mixed media), 2009
Running time: 23min
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera
Presented in the 2nd edition of the multidisciplinary festival "Jaen en Femenino", Jaen, Spain, 2009
and at the Bienale Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Merida, Venezuela,2010

Is there an edge of belief? is a film about the relation, uncommonness and beauty of innocence-belief. Where are the limits of our understanding of the emotions, how do we relate to the others and how do we handle the differences? Through the eyes of a little girl, its the world that we rediscover, the look at adulthood is biased and share its reality with elements of fairy-telling. As the images unravel, the density of the emotion grows, the gravity changes, and we are trapped into a world that the child in us understand, still. There is a woman breathing-singing-crying-fighting, multiple me/us trying to trace our own obsessions, flip books, visual poetry, fictional backgrounds, actors and aerial dancers elapsing their movements, impersonation and caricatures. Everything is allowed to be suggestive and accumulative, more significant than its physical appearance would indicate. So the shards of stories we have put together collide here, reflecting, and evolving like the act of memory itself. All objects and images are more than what first meets the eye, just as the visual imaginary evolves into a whole world of humanity.

CREDITS

Is There An Edge Of Belief
A Film Video Art by Laia Cabrera

Performers (by order of appearance)
Puy Navarro
Tafara Vera-Marriot
Maite San Juan
Brice Malahude
Rosa Godia Cabrera
Ramon Godia Cabrera
Isabelle Duverger
David Besora
JuanJo Martinez
Maria Litvan

Direction and cinematography by Laia Cabrera
Drawing animations by Isabelle Duverger
Still photography by David Besora and Isabelle Duverger
Drawing by Rosa Godia Cabrera

Edited by Laia Cabrera
Sound Design and Sound Editing by Laia Cabrera

Text by Laia Cabrera
Voice over text by Puy Navarro
Voice over singing by Brice Malahude
C’est une chanson (Yves Montand and Jacques Prévert)

Soundtrack
“Vessel”
Music by Nana Simopoulos

“Moonstruck Vagabond”
Music and Lyrics by Erica Glyn
Interpreted by For Feather

“Turn Around”
Music and Lyrics by Isabelle Duverger
Interpreted by Isabelle Duverger

“An’ Another Thing”
Music and Lyrics by Dave Matthews
Interpreted by Dave Matthews

“The Moment I Said It”
Music and Lyrics by Imogen Heap
Interpreted by Imogen Heap

“Untitled”
Live sound performance by Brice Malahude

May 29th, 2009: "Is There An Edge Of Belief" videoart piece, created, directed and edited by Laia Cabrera
and presented in the festival Femenino in Jaen, Spain

Jaen Femenino: Is there an edge of belief

is there an edge of belief poster