Weird Works the Bridge [Weird faz a ponte]
Norway / Noruega, 2022. 26,38 minutos
unpublished / inédito
Photography, editing, text and voice-over: Rolf Gerstlauer
Idea for the performance and performer: Julie Dind aka NN (or Weird)
Additional cast: students from the AHO Catharsis studio (Four Freedom Park NY, 2017), Anders Eik Pilskog, Jan Gunnar Skjeldsøy and Rolf Gerstlauer (Lista, 2014), as well as pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge (NY, 2013).
Costumes and drawings: Julie Dind
Sculptures and drawings: Rolf Gerstlauer
Cocoons: provided by silkworms
Production: DRAWING NN FILMS – Julie Dind & Rolf Gerstlauer
Synopsis:
The ecoperformance and ethnofiction Weird Works the Bridge is a cinematic pata/paraphrase of La Jetée (1962) by Chris Marker. The film processes the filmmaker’s memories of NN’s (Nomen Nescio, No Name) autistic walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The work explores our (in)ability to create relationships with objects, questions our thirst for images, lists and numbers, and mourns the loss of our fellow beings.
A ecoperformance e entnoficção Weird Works the Bridge é uma parafrase cinematográfica de La Jetée (1962) de Chris Marker. O filme processa as memórias do cineasta relativas à caminhada autista de NN (Nomen Nescio, No Name) pela ponte do Brooklyn em Nova York. O filme explora nossa (in)capacidade de criar relações com objetos, questiona nossa sede por imagens, listas e números e lamenta a perda de nossos seres semelhantes.
Mini-bio:
Rolf Gerstlauer is a professor at the Oslo School of Design and Architecture where he conducts experimental teaching for master’s levels and produces a body of artistic research in the fields of architecture, photography/film, multimedia installations and performing arts.
Rolf Gerstlauer é professor na Oslo School of Design e Architecture onde realiza ensino experimental para níveis de mestrado e produz um corpo de pesquisa artística nas áreas de arquitetura, fotografia/cinema, instalações multimídia e artes cênicas.
Julie Dind is an artist and scholar at the intersection of performance studies, disability studies and philosophy. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Toulouse, an MA in International Culture and Communication Studies from Waseda University and is currently a PhD candidate at Brown University.
Julie Dind é uma artista e acadêmica na interseção de estudos da performance, estudos sobre deficiência e filosofia. Ela é bacharel em Psicologia pela Universidade de Toulouse, possui mestrado em Cultura Internacional e Estudos de Comunicação pela Waseda University e atualmente é doutoranda na Brown University.