by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Cinéma Galeries
Tuesday 23 April 2024 — 21:00
The screening will be followed by a Q&A
Synopsis
Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven per formers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and the shore.
Along the way, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Each ‘day ’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in a character’s emotional development : from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.
Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.
Wayfaring Stranger had its world premiere at the IFF Rotterdam on 25 January 2024.
Film review via this link.
‘Wayfaring Stranger is a mesmerizing yet haunting journey through our relationship with ourselves and the world we live in.’International Cinephile Society
Credits
With text written and performed by acclaimed poet Eileen Myles
Sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson
The performers:
Eileen Myles
Eirini Ampatzi Ippikoglou
Michiko Oki
Moon Nanook Guo-Barker
Mwiinga Twyman
Therese Henningsen
Xiaolu Guo
With a special performance from Tizzy-Rose, Callum Hickey, Ash & Ella
Written by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Gareth Evans
Directed and filmed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Produced by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
Co-Produced by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Edited by Taina Galis and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Sound design by Chris Watson
With music by Balamuc and Fern Maddie
Title song ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ performed by Fern Maddie
Commissioned and funded by The Wapping Project.
‘When it comes to filmmaking, Wayfaring Stranger owes much to Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse, from its sombre black-and-white photography (though the camera movements have more than a touch of Malick) to its immersive qualities thanks to a nature-based sound design.’International Cinephile Society
Practical Information
Date: Tuesday 23 April 2024
Time: 21:00
Venue: Cinéma Galeries (Galerie de la Reine 26, 1000 Brussels)
Film language: no dialogues (with the exception of 45 seconds of language in English)
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Poet Eileen Myles
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