Autonomy of a Fall (2025)

Ongoing research with Bregje Benecke, Olympia Kotopoulos. Presented at Cinedans Festival 2025 in Amsterdam.

Experience duration 25 minutes.

This research was initiated at the Moving Media Lab from December 2024 to March 2025, supported by Cinedans.

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In this theatrical experiment, the three artists explore the tension between subjective experience and external classification revolving around the concept of falling. Through surveillance, machine learning tracking movements of bodies, and collective decision-making, the work seeks to expose the power dynamics at play when bodies are categorised, interpreted, and controlled. The experiment invites the audience to observe, judge, and intervene in the movement of an individual engaged in the simple yet provocative act of falling.

Special thanks to MML artists and producers, Steven Elbers, Abel Enklaar, Mariah Blue, Léa Cadieux, Rens Hoofs, Ildikó Horváth, Rawan Khater, Ennya Larmit, Cerian Mason, Albert Rask, Maria Sartzetaki, Josse Vessies and Laura Eager & Michael Scerbo.