Looking Forward is a short film that investigates the reversing of movement and time. The experiment plays with the ways in which we perceive the notions/motions of backward and forward; past and future.
Film and video artist and photographer Roberta Marques offers a new perspective on the history of capturing movement in photography and film in this elegant collaboration with dancer Michael Schumacher. Looking Forward is a continuous video piece about the reversing of movement and time. It offers a deconstruction of time in the way we perceive it, and constructs a fantasy world. A man walks forward while the world around him functions backward; through a series of temporal lapses the spectator experiences reversals of time.
Concept and Direction: Roberta Marques | With: Michael Schumacher | Music: Tian Rotteveel | Camera: Micha Douwes | Editing: Roberta Marques | Audio Mixing: Arno Willemstein | Production: André Agterof / Studio Entre Nous
Roberta Marques studied visual arts at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Das Arts - both in Amsterdam. She has also studied screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television en San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Over the past decade, Roberta has been developing a dialogue between the body, the camera and the use of images on stage. Her work (videos, fiction films and performances) has been exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, World Wide Video Festival, Mix Brazil Film Festival, Nederlands Film Festival, Rio International Film Festival, Nes Theaters, PS 122 (NYC), Melkweg, CCBB (Brazil), a.o. Besides her own projects, Roberta Marques has been researching and developing techniques of video-performance, video-film installation for the stage and visual decor in collaboration with choreographers and theater makers, such as Michael Schumaker, Amanda Muller, Wincky Hoedt and Michiel Bollinger, Duda Paiva, Paul S. Norton, Robert Steijn, and Joaquim Sabaté. Roberta Marques works as a guest teacher at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, SNDO - School for New Dance Development. More recently Roberta Marques did the official videography of the performance Clogs by Hans van Manen. In the last years she has been documenting several productions by Dance Unit, DWA, Dansateliers Rotterdam, Nes Theaters, Melkweg, Korzo Theater, Het Veem, a.o. Based in Amsterdam and Fortaleza Roberta Marques is the artistic director of Sambascope Foundation and Latitude Sul.
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