Film & Performative Dialog
"What-a-Mel-on"
2020/2021
Concept, Artistic Director: Aldina Topcagic, Film Production: Dieter Michael Grohmann
Dance artist: Fabio Bergaglio, Choreography Assistant: Cruz Isael Mata Rojas
Music: William Garfield Walker, Ousmane, Protagonists: Maddy, Mel
Location: Balthasar Brussels
produced by: Art Alive
supportet by: GRAWE & Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels
Award Winner
MILAN GOLDEN AWARDS Film Festival
about:
How much of our daily life is being controlled, led, or manipulated? Are our opinions, decisions, and actions our own or are they simply products that are co-created by the systems we live in. We think we know something till we find out that what we used to call our truth has already been prepared for us by a force that we have had never questioned before. Where does the independence of our mind begin? And when has it been taken from us? Which harm do we cause to our society, nature, and the world by not questioning transparencies?
Are we going to stay passive viewers – marionettes, or are we going to create consciously our now, so we could actively build a better future and become an influential part of history?
Short Dance Film "Timeless"
Filmed in Central Havana, Kuba, the 8th of Mai 2017.
Artistic director, producer: Aldina Michelle Topcagic
Co -producer: Isael Cruz Mata Rojas
Performance: Isael Mata, Miguel Alejandro Lopez Jorge, Alejandro Minoso Jimenez, Aldina Michelle Topcagic,
Contributor: Yamile Morales
Video Recording & photography; Juan Aristides Otamendi
Film & Film text: Aldina Michelle Topcagic
Visual post-production: Simon Reithofer
Trailer: tbp
