Le Jardin Extraordinaire is a video clip featuring the residents of the Maison de Repos Anne Sylvie Mouzon and students of the Institut de la Providence in Anderlecht, Brussels. The improbable aim to shoot a dance video outdoors in the retirement home’s garden, mingling these two groups of very different ability, not to say, flexibility! It rained or was cold on most of the Tuesday afternoon workshops during which we devised the ‘choreography’ for the clip. Nevertheless, over the course of six months, the two groups got to know each other and formed a special bond. We were all amazed and delighted by how the clip reflects that.
RECOmmerce N°4 –
RECOmmerce #4, the last in the series of participatory art projects in public space, attempted to both celebrate and consolidate the work that has taken place since 2014. Once again we aim to reflect the multiple identities of the communities of St Denis and Forest by framing them in original and creative ways. Enquiry and inquisitiveness on the part of the artists and the public gave rise to multihued, durable traces in the imaginations of all.
Sauter Hors Du Cadre
Sauter Hors du Cadre is a two day interactive film festival that was developed on behalf of the Brigittines theatre in Brussels with the aim if mixing both professional and non-specialized public around the themes of dance and film.
The Tinderbox intends to further develop this kind of initiative, proposing similar, two day intensive or partial, tailor-made programmes.
Parcourir other projects in the making
Parcourir is a work in progress intending to become a series of experimental documentary films created jointly by Jean-Michel Agius and Oonagh Duckworth.
The first attempts were filmed in the parks Duden and Forest
Many thanks to all the participants
Jean-Michel Agius, choreographer and image capturer and Oonagh Duckworth, journalist and jogger, both regular park users, decided to join forces to create a filmed portrait of both the Duden and Forest park throughout the four seasons. Oonagh was fascinated by the glimpses of the lives that chance encounters in the park reveal, the ease with which relative strangers discuss grandiose subjects like life, death, dogs and love and why regular runners like herself have come to regard their daily jog as important as religion or food. Jean-Michel’s concern was innovative imagery, getting ideas to dance in front of the camera and creating incongruous juxtapositions between nature and people. Here we show a few rough results, a mixed bag of notions, a few jokes and quite some failures that, nevertheless, bare witness to the beauty of the parks and the fun we had playing in them. A few images of the making of the first chapter…
Rokan & Said
From November 2015 ’til April 2016, Rokan and Said, two Kurdish refugees from Aleppo, Syria, came to live with Oonagh and her family. Over the following six months a deep and lasting friendship developed. Oonagh filmed many of their shared mealtimes where conversations about war, religion, politics, cooking, art, love, family, homosexuality, food and house prices took place. A glimpse of the daily life of this unconventional, intercultural, temporary but strongly bonded.
