Water Clock
Directed by Regina Miranda
Performed by Marina Salomon and Patricia Niedermeier
Editing: Adriana Nolasco
Soundscape: Regina Miranda (direct recording of water movements and performers’ voices)
Images: Regina Miranda, Patricia Niedermeier, Marina Salomon and Cavi Borges
Camera: Nina Salomon (for Marina Salomon’s scenes)
Produced by Regina Miranda, Patricia Niedermeier, Marina Salomon
Distribution: CAVIDEO
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WATER CLOCK
Water flows, eddies and swirls have been a constant presence in our artistic work for almost two decades. While the depth of oceans invites the experience of our own mental-physical and sensitive layers, the inner-outer movement of breathing connects our intimacy with the dynamics of water. From being one of the conditions for life, a mirror of the sky, a soft entrance for disappearance, the element used to wash bodies in rituals of life and death, water epitomizes that everything is in motion. If water has no shape of its own but can take any shape, it is intriguing to observe humanity’s efforts to measure and attempt control it and yet water always tends to overflow boundaries indicating infinite possibilities.
ARTISTS BIOS
Regina Miranda
Award-winning artist and Brazilian cultural activist, Miranda works as theater, dance and film director, while participating in projects at the intercession of art, culture, citizenship and social change. She created and directed over 40 theater, dance and music performances, with which she won numerous national and international awards. These performances instigate the audience to think in contemporary parameters and to actively participate in the artistic process. Among recent works, the immersive performance installation P.O.E.M.A, at Oi Futuro / RJ Institute; the large scale performance “Inside the Wild Heart”, staged at the Immersive Gallery, NYC, in 2016; and the monologue “NAITSU: Nights with Murakami” received international acclaim. In Brazil, NAITSU was nominated for the 2018 Cesgranrio Dance Award, and selected by the O Globo Newspaper, as one of the Ten Best Performances of the Year. In 2019, Miranda conceived “Romola and Nijinsky”, occupying the four floors of the historic Castelinho do Flamengo Cultural Center, for which she was nominated for the APTR 2019 Theater Award. In the same year, Miranda wrote and directed her first film-poem “Vislumbres” (Glimpses)”, on the relationship between the famous Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and poet Maria Telles Ribeiro, that premiered on March 4th, 2020. Since then, she directed and produced four short films: Vertigo Vertigem; Corandon; 20+20 Happy Birthday; and Water Clock.
Marina Salomon
Dancer, actress and movement director, Marina is considered one of the best Brazilian performers of her generation. In 1984, Marina was invited to join the Regina Miranda & AtoresBailarinos Company, where she works untill current days performing in prominent roles in all of its artistic works, both in Brazil and in the US, Japan, and France. In 2014, Marina celebrated 30 years of career as an actress and dancer, performing in a work specially created for her - Vertigem das Listas (Vertigo of Lists), at Teatro do Jockey (RJ). In 2016, she participated in Fear & Pleasure Finely Tuned (Teatro Sesc-Ginástico / RJ) and in the installation P.O.E.M.A. at Oi Futuro RJ Institute, both conceived by Regina Miranda. In 2018, Marina received the Cesgranrio Dance Award as Best Dancer for her performance in NAITSU, a night long solo performance. In the same year, she was also granted the title of Honorary CMA, by the Laban Institute of Movement Studies - NY. In 2019, Marina worked on Romola and Nijinsky, an immersive performance created by Regina Miranda, about the life-long relationship between the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife, the aristocrat and also dancer Romola de Pulszky (Castelinho do Flamengo - RJ). In March of 2020 Marina had just premiered in the film-theater solo performance of NAITSU, when all the theaters of Rio closed their doors. Since then, she conceived and danced in the short film, Vertigo Vertigem, directed by Regina Miranda, which was awarded with the 2020 State of Rio - Culture Present in the Web.
Patricia Niedermeier
Patricia is a Brazilian actress, dancer and performer. In collaboration with important theater directors of Brazil, she has been focused in creating unconventional solo performances that blur the division between artist and audience. She integrated various dancing and theater companies in Rio de Janeiro, until she joined the ActorsDancers Company, directed by Regina Miranda, in 2001, with whom she has been performing internationally. Also as an actress, Patricia has performed in multiple long films, since 2012. She became very interested in the movie making process and more recently, in partnership with Cavi Borges, she has been mainly dedicated to directing long and short films, film-plays, and a number of experimental videoarts. Her long film “To Revive” premiered in 2019 to national acclaim.