Lake Studios Berlin

My residency at Lake studios involves developing material for a new short film, in partnership with my five-year-old son, and a movement research for a solo piece. Both projects go under the same title: If you hold a Stone.The creation process I entail with my child – who also takes part in creating scenes and on recording material that will be present in the final work – is based on the sharing of presence grounded on daily life, on the experience of being together while navigating between the different needs, desires, perspectives and imaginations in relation to the context we inhabit. What happens when numbers enter a child’s perspective on the world, yet remain as an intangible quality that navigates between assumptions about time, proportions, counting, measurements, impossible mathematical procedures, absurdities and infinities? Through games, walks, conversations and exploration of the surrounding area, mother and son collide their perceptions and create a cinematic narrative that reimagines everything around through our relationships with numbers. Parallel to that, I am working on movement research for a solo. Departing from the initial movement material I developed for my Master’s final piece “Dream of a Common Language”, I further research how the concrete body of the stone has agency on my body and invites me to move in a specific way. I am exploring how stones can evoke metaphors, images and memories related to issues of time, belonging and roots, while stating for land as something that brings instability to the body and provokes movement.