This is home - Film
30min., full HD, color, sound, E/HEB/SP/RU/e, 2021
Official world premiere at Venice Biennale Architettura 2021, «Salon Suisse», Bodily Encounters
Florine Leoni's work «This is Home» researches complex relationships to notions of ‘home’.
Within an experimental setting, five performers explore the feeling of home; rationally by language, physically by dancing. How have socialisations and experiences from our childhood inscribed themselves in our body memory? How can our place of longing be described? Can we only arrive when we are no longer afraid of settling or being rooted? Is the home perhaps an inner place, a state or an emotion?
The work «This is Home» turns research on this manifold theme into a work of art and gives space to the ambiguous, contradictory and polyvalent. It raises philosophical questions that encourage us to reflect on our own sense of self and individual relationship to home.
Images: Production stills, analogue medium format photography, Uferstudios Berlin, 2020 and filmstills of «This is Home», Camera: Michelle Ettlin. © Florine Leoni, 2022
CREDITS
Idea, casting, direction, choreography, editing, production: Florine Leoni
Performance and choreography: Eli Cohen, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez, Inna Krasnoper, Nicole Michalla, G. Osuna Sanchez
Music composition and co-editing: Jannik Giger
Camera: Michelle Ettlin
Location sound recording: Misha Bours
Dramaturgical advice and project texts: Mona De Weerdt
Choreographical advice: Clea Onori
Sound design: Tobias Koch
Graphic design: Lena Lüem, Berrel Gschwind Lüem
Translations subtitles D/E: Michelle Ettlin, Andrea Winkler
Colorgrading: Aurelio Buchwalder
Fundraising: Patricia Bianchi
FUNDING
Gwärtler Stiftung, Guggenheim Stiftung, Scheidegger-Thommen Stiftung, Anne Marie Schindler Stiftung
