Feeling Thing
Feeling Thing invites us to pay attention to the objects around us and experience them as the dancing, feeling things they are. This short dance film features three intimate duets between object and performer, with ASMR sound inviting us into an uncanny space where all things are alive.
Matter is lively. If you play the right frequency to your kitchen table, it will explode. You may not have noticed, but your iron has a certain swagger as it glides over polyester. Those of us with the lived experience of disability may already know something of this potential intimacy, this strange kinship, as we dance the daily duet between our bodies and the people, objects and technologies that support us.
In Feeling Thing, the camera captures three intimate duets between object and performer. The ASMR sound encourages us to listen closely and sense the life in them, inviting us to lean into feeling as a sensory, illogical, uncanny space where all things are alive.
“It’s a provocative, intelligent and at times heartbreaking film
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Credits
A Candoco Dance Company and Jo Bannon Co-Production
Dancers - Ihsaan De Banya, Olivia Edginton & Anna Seymour
Director and Choreographer - Jo Bannon
Co-Director, Camera and Editor - John Stephenson
Assistant Director - Charlotte Darbyshire
Producer - Ellie Douglas-Allan
Assistant Producer - Georgia Kersh
Director of Photography and Colourist - Jack Offord
1st Assistant Camera - Bethany Fitter
Sound Designer - Julie Rose Bower
Sound Recordist and Mixer- Rob Hart
Production Manager and Gaffer - Phil Webb
Best Boy - Gravity Randall
Access Consultancy - Quiplash
Audio Description - Dot Alma
Closed Captions - Julie Rose Bower, John Stephenson
Special thanks to - Jules and Mani Maxwell, Philippa and Matthew Stephenson, Cinewest, Rebecca Pierce, Mike Stoner, Harri McKenzie-Donovan, Laura Goulden, Sandy Deo
Audio Description
An Audio Described version of Feeling Thing is available here
Screenings
Sadlers Wells Digital Stage (UK)
Sydney Opera House (AU)
Tate Modern (UK)
Sound Art Festival (IT)
Unbeaten Path Foundation (PL)
Mayfest (UK)
Dance City (UK)
To Screen
Digital Film | Duration 18 mins
If you would like to present an In Person Screening with accompanying Talk / Q&A please contact Jo’s producer Josephine Gyasi at josephine@mayk.org.uk
