A LIVING SPACE
WHAT: Feature Film
DIRECTOR: Jakub Jahn
PRODUCER: Jozef Pavleye
A Living Space is a unique exploration of one summer at the Laboratory for Performance - Watermill Center where each year the visionary theatre director and artist Robert Wilson gathers almost a hundred artists from all over the world giving them the opportunity to collaborate with a selection of art world celebrities such as Jim Jarmusch, CocoRosie, Philip Glass and Daniel Liebeskind to mention just a few. This unprecedented film documents 50 days of the Watermill Summer Program including interviews with Robert Wilson, invited artists and participants as well as never-seen-before footage from rehearsals, offering a glimpse of the exceptional creative ferment and the relentless force of expression underlying all Robert Wilson works.
"We must support art of our days because it is the voice and diary of our time."
ROBERT WILSON
For the very first time in 2014, Robert Wilson has authorised a cinematographic crew – the young Czech cineastes Jakub Jahn and David Markovic – to film the exceptional creative ferment of Watermill Center’s Summer Program.
The only condition was that they were not observers, but active participants, immersed in the artistic effervescence and integrated in the everyday life of the Watermill community.
The hundreds of hours of raw footage, including interviews with Robert Wilson, the invited artists and various participants, testimonies from rehearsals and images from the very heart of the amazing artistic environment – the excrescence of Robert Wilson’s brain in the world – will mutually inform each other to give birth to a unique document on the relentless creative flurry, underlying all Robert Wilson’s works.
THE WATERMILL CENTER
The Watermill Center is a laboratory for the arts and humanities providing a global community the time, space and freedom to create and inspire.
The Watermill Center is considered by some as one of the most ambitious works of art by Robert Wilson: it’s there that every year he gathers almost a hundred young artists from all over the world, whom he then directs, or “stages”, during the 50 days of the Watermill Summer Program.
Founded in 1992, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities situated on ten acres of Shinnecock ancestral territory on Long Island. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, the Center offers year-round artist residencies and education programs, providing a global community with the time, space, and freedom to create and inspire.
The film features appearances by cultural icons such as Jim Jarmusch, Daniel Liebeskind, Lucinda Childes, COCOROSIE, & many more.
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