STRANGE JOY
Friday, March 31 + Saturday, April 1, 2023 | 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023 | 4:00 PM
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: $5 SFU Students / Underemployed | $10 SFU Staff / Faculty / Alumni | $15 General Public
Let there be quiet and play well
From the beginning
Strike up together…
Here you can speed up
Don’t leave any gaps
There, now all together
No sentimentality
Just play the notes
~ from Day for Night by François Truffaut
Set on an indoor film set, the story follows the director and the team in the process of making a film. Taking the audience through the landscape of the movie set, we glimpse into the spectrum of desires, following the team both on and off the screen. The film crew becomes increasingly deranged as the days go by in his search for perfection, while they desperately try to find their way out of the obsessive loop, take after take and finish the film they set out to make.
Blurring the lines between installation, film, dance and theater, and taking inspiration from Day for Night / Le Nuit American by François Truffaut and documentaries of film set environments of legendary film directors, STRANGE JOY explores the behind-the-scenes of making a film.
In collaboration with...
Performers
Czarina Agustines, Breanne Birk, Zoë Braithwaite, Sean Bray, Marissa Capron, Athena Chan, Emma Ciprian, Saskia Cseh, Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, Lauren Han, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Jillian Jarin, Kevin Jesuino, Ruby Maher, Maximus McLarnon, Eve Middleton-Meyer, Rosemary Morrison, Clare Noble, Calla Roberts, Mavrik Yi Tong Sun, Terris J. Tan, Aisha Wewala, Liam Wilkins, Ruby Wu, Emmanuel (Will) Zorzos.
Production
Director / Writer / Concept: Erika Latta
Assistant Director: Montserrat Videla Samper
Video Designer: Irfan Brkovic
Assistant Video Designer: Colleen Bayati
Video Operator: Tadeo Ríos Dávila
Video Assistant: Carlo Marchet
Stage Manager: Joy Wu
Camera Operator / Documentary Crew (Live): Jillian Jarin
Camera Operator / Film Crew (Live): Emma Ciprian
Video Supervisor: Wlad Rodriguez
Lighting Design: Darryl Strohan
Assistant Lighting Designer: Irene Weng
Set Design: Erika Latta & Daniel Philips
Set Construction: Daniel Philips, Erika Latta, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Eve Middleton-Meyer, Calla Roberts, Lauren Han, Czarina Agustines, Saskia Cseh, Sean Bray, Clare Noble, Maximus McLarnon, Jillian Jarin, Terris J. Tan, Jae Gonzales, Marissa Capron, Emmanuel (Will) Zorzos
Props: The cast & crew
Sound Design: Stefan Smulovitz
Sound Mixer: Jean Routhier
Production Manager / Technical Director: Miles Lavkulich
Movement Coach: Kevin Jesuino
Translation: Athena Chan
Styling: Erika Latta & the cast
Sewing: Calla Roberts & Jae Gonzales
Vector Drawings: Alex Caprara
Filming Credits: Erika Latta & Irfan Brkovic (Directors); Tadeo Ríos Dávila (Cinematographer); Colleen Bayati (Assistant Director / Swing); Carlo Marchet (Camera Assistant); Zoë Braithwaite, Eve Middleton-Meyer, Rosemary Morrison, Clare Noble, Liam Wilkins (Actors)