1996 12 MIN.

 

During our two years of collaboration, we have been going deeper into a shared interest in working with different characters. Realizing the difference between real acting and performance, we exchange the two ways of expressing, by going into the actual recording session very open to what may come up. Living out private fantasies, yet still relating to more determined roles as we know them from the movies, we play with stereotypes, and female and male roles. Always using ourselves as actors, changing characters, and putting on new ones, we film on different locations and in different rooms, according to the action we want to stage. The sessions have mainly been staged without words, but with a very explicit tone in the way we played, as well as in our clothing.

London-Hotel is the first work we did together, followed by a series of sessions in which we worked and performed in relation to different objects, all somehow referring to the body. In the winter of 1997, we carried out a more complex piece, Lonesome Night, a video made in a nightclub scenario, where we explored male/female roles, playing 3 or 4 guests around the blue hours at a specific club. An actual plot materialized, and the video was shown in theater-like locations, which brought us closer to film. Lately we have been working with words, writing lines and stories and performing them in more or less neutral surroundings. This has been another way of getting into our work with characters, and it is not yet finished.

 

Iben Mondrup (45)3118-6614
Pia Rönicke (45)3124-0143