DIRECTOR: CARA HOLMES WRITER + NARRATOR: ORLA BARRY
OFFICIAL LOGLINE NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND bursts with candid observations of lipstick wearing, always swearing, no nonsense, artist and shepherd, Orla Barry. Through her fields, her digital diaries, and the pedigree sheep she cares for, we discover how the art is in the doing.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS Orla Barry is a self-confessed ovine addict. She is a decade in sheep, she’s still wondering what possessed her to start but yet she wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Orla lived in Brussels for 16 years and now lives and works in South East Ireland where she runs a flock of pedigree Lleyn sheep. Her work deals with the tensions of being an artist and an eco-farmer in rural Ireland. The Sheep have slowed her art career but at the same, caring for them has hugely inspired it. She escapes the studio by going to the sheep, escapes the sheep by hiding in her studio.
NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND follows Orla, an outlier, as she floats between these worlds. It reflects upon the primal, poetic and unpredictable bond she has with the natural world.
An immersive new dance work by Luca Truffarelli where ideas of freedom and subjection, the individualism of human beings and their basic human rights is reflected on.
THE WEIGHT evokes scenes from daily life, turned compelling through the gestural movements of a dance solo and the power of the orchestral score.
The production was born from Luca’s desire to creatively conjure the places and people in society so often overlooked, challenging us all to take another hard look at each other...
Against a soaring orchestral backdrop specially composed by Greg Haines and recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, this new dance collaboration by Truffarelli, was originally conceived with Oona Doherty and developed with Swiss-based dancer Erin O’Reilly.
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CREDITS:
Creator/Director: Luca Truffarelli
Performer: Erin O’Reilly
Choreographic Collaboration: Oona Doherty, Erin O’Reilly
Composition: Greg Haines
Music recorded by The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Maloney With brief appearances by Jessie Thompson and Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane Stage Manager: Marella Boschi
Lighting Design: Roberto Baldinelli
Lighting Associate: John Gunning
Costume Design: Valentina Gambardella
Set Design: Luca Truffarelli, Stefano & Roberto Baldinelli, Cristina Ferretti Sound Design: Luca Truffarelli, Uriel Ireland Rabinad
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Funded by The Arts Council Ireland - Produced by Once Off Production & Luca Truffarelli Supported by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra Development phase of THE WEIGHT supported by Dublin Dance Festival.
Director: Luca Truffarelli / Oona Doherty
Choreographer: Oona Doherty
Performers: Oona and Janie Doherty
DOP / Editor: Luca Truffarelli
Focus Puller: Mike Lockhart
Camera Assistant: Alex Hutchinson
Movement director Neil Fleming Brown and film maker Luca Truffarelli have collaborated on a film to explore the depths of the ordinary man & woman.
A film combining movement, fashion and poetry ‘The Wilderness within’ draws upon text from writers Albert Camus, Fernando Pessoa and Ted Hughes to create an enigmatic observation of human's connection with nature - the unexplored caves, the far off deserts and the seabed of ourselves.
Music by Greg Haines
Shortlisted at Berlin Commercial Festival 2019
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Oona Doherty is a Belfast-based dancer and choreographer. She is bold, complex, arresting and ambitious. This innovative, poetic and visually arresting documentary is a portrait of Oona and the creative process of her award-winning show Hope Hunt.
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Awards:
Best Irish Short Film, Dublin International Film Festival, 2020
Special Jury Mention at Tribeca Film Festival 2020
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DIRECTOR Cara Holmes
PRODUCER Zlata Filipovic
SCREENWRITER Cara Holmes
CINEMATOGRAPHER Luca Truffarelli
EDITOR Mick Mahon
COMPOSER Die Hexen
CAST Oona Doherty
Released on Serein label (February 2018)
https://www.serein.co.uk/releases/strie-perpetual-journey
Strië is the pseudonym of Polish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Olga Wojciechowska. Initial works released under this alias did not reveal Olga's real name; the moniker was born of a desire to sever ties with her past musical identity, to make daring new music for music's sake and to do so with freedom and impunity.
https://olgawojciechowska.com/
Special Mention Best Irish Short - Dublin International Film Festival 2019
The First was a Boy is a new short film created by Shaun Dunne and Luca Truffarelli. The piece was developed over six months as part of The Ark’s Ringsend Intergenerational Drama Project.
Choreographer Liz Roche has been at the forefront of the contemporary dance scene in Ireland, performing throughout the country and internationally in New York, London, Beijing, and Brisbane. Here is her dance film for our Grásta commissions series.
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THIS LOST YEAR
A film by Liz Roche and Luca Truffarelli
Performed by Liz Roche
Filmed at Theatre Production Services workshop in Dublin, Ireland.
Commissioned by Irish Arts Center as part of Grásta: Grace in Uncertainty, 2020-2021.
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The IAC Grásta initiative is a series of commissions by a remarkable assembly of writers, musicians, and dance, visual and theatre artists, all responding to the idea of grace in uncertainty. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated on their journeys.
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Award:
Audience Choice Award for Short Film at Dublin International Film Festival 2020
Screenings and Awards:
IndieFEST Award,California,USA-Merit Award – 2016
IndieFEST Award,California,USA-Award of Recognition-2016
Athens International Film and Video Festival,Athens,Ohio,USA – 2016
Brooklyn Film Festival USA – Audience Award Winner -2016
Miami shorts Festival USA – Semi-Finalist – 2016
Light Moves Screendance Festival,Limerick,Ireland - 2016
Moving Body,Varna,Bulgaria - 1-2 September 2017
ventiquattro settembre- SET me Free (OFF Section) -V.e.N.e with future mellon,not yet art, in collaboration with Metricubi and Roehampton University,with special partners International Dance Festival of Burgundy,Lago Film Festival and Project Trans(m)it- Venice,Italy-September 2017
Twentyeighth September- SET me Free OFF/UK Focus-same partners as above-The Michaelis Theatre University of Roehampton London -Sept 2017
Moving Body (Performance Room) Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria -April 2018