Workshop Visual Stories - Pauline Kalker/Hotel Modern

⇨ Registrations are closed. All the selected for the workshop were contacted and due to the high number of registrations, a waiting list was created.

A workshop with Pauline Kalker, artistic director and one of the founders of the renowned company Hotel Modern.

Based on the working method of the group Hotel Modern, the participants are challenged to create puppets and characters with everyday objects. Work on the different voices and possible types of movement and, from there, to create short visual stories.

The Dutch theatre company Hotel Modern blends visual art, object theatre, drama, music, film, modelling and performance in its evocative productions. Scale models play an important role in their performances; these are used to, literally, view the world from a macro perspective. Hotel Modern’s approach is unique in the field of theatre by using miniature scenographies and their projection onto a large screen to reflect on the world, exploring major historical themes such as war.

FIMFA Lx - International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms has followed the work by Hotel Modern, presenting their shows in several editions: The Great War, 2007 and 2015; Kamp, 2008 and Shrimp Tales, 2010.

A unique opportunity to learn from the knowledge and experience of Pauline Kalker, who runs this workshop in collaboration with the visual artist Marsha Agerbeek.

For: Puppeteers, actors, directors, scenographers, visual artists, video artists, film makers, professionals in the fields of cinema, audiovisual or video, performing and visual arts students
Number of participants: 10

Working schedule: Friday to Sunday from 10am to 1pm and 2.30pm to 6pm
Working language: English

Fee: 50€
Deadline for applications: 18 March 2024

Selection in order of registration after payment. Once the application has been analysed, its acceptance will be communicated and the method of payment for the workshop will be indicated.

INFO AND REGISTRATIONS

The registration in the workshop is made by the duly filled application form in Google Forms or in doc file - in this case it must be send to: projectofunicular@gmail.com or atarumba@gmail.com

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BIO
Pauline Kalker graduated in 1992 Arnhem Theatre Academy, where she learned acting and theatre making. After her studies, she immersed herself in visual theatre, creating film sets. In 1997, together with colleague Arlène Hoornweg, she founded Hotel Modern. Kalker leads the creation of productions and performs them. 
The members of Hotel Modern are the directors and performers Pauline Kalker and Arlène Hoornweg, and the visual artist and performer Herman Helle. They also collaborate with composer Arthur Sauer on their creations.
Those who have followed their work, presented at previous editions of FIMFA, know that they do exceptional creative work. With the help of miniature models, digital cameras, puppets, objects, actors and sound, they tell true and invented stories about the fragility of the human being. Live animation film allows them to bring a cinematic and illusory reality to the theatre.

The horror of war is a recurring theme in the company's work. In their international theater hit The Great War the trenches of the First World War are represented. With small cameras the actors dive into the trenches and tell a story through the eyes of the fighting soldiers. The images are being projected on a big screen and are guided by a live soundtrack. The result is incredibly intense and realistic. Kamp is a theatrical portrait of Auschwitz, in which a stage filling scale model of an extermination camp is brought to life. The group also produces more absurd and lighter work. Shrimp Tales for example, is a funny play about humanity, performed by 350 real dried shrimps.
The company has won enormous recognition from the general public and specialized critics. They are pioneers in their method of mixing high technology and primitive materials, in the effective and curious way they use their equipment. The group has performed all over the world and has won several awards, including the European Prix de Coppet and the prestigious Dutch VSCD Mime Prize, for their originality, spirit of invention and expressiveness, as well as the Wim Meilink Award, awarded by NVP- UNIMA, for their entire body of work.

^{The participants should bring:}

^{-Objects, toys, photos (that can be cut out), fabrics (that can be cut out), pencils, pens, torches, newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, Fimo modelling clay.}

^{_{Photography: Joost van den Broek, Alípio Padilha}}