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.
"We are one big lost ship, pirates of the black holes." - Anna
!["[The title of this dish is] Doubt." - Chef](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653afd64e763cd29554cb1ff/43175b01-4ace-4ce0-9958-a61d6aeabde3/_DSC1059.JPEG)
"[The title of this dish is] Doubt." - Chef
"I will quit, I promise you and all of this will be for naught." - Jean-Luc
"Love, you see, is full of violence." - Jean-Luc
"I survived being left alone all day, didn't I?" - Quinn
"Did you get his wedding ring?" - Anna
"Believe me. His wife will thank you." - Yasmine
"Breakdowns. We all have them..let it out and go to bed. You are going to hate yourself in the morning. Bad, bad, boy. I like a bad boy." - Chef
"Can someone get me a light?!" - Raymond
"Get in the car. Hurry." - Yasmine
"We are the ones driving now..." - Renee
"I can never impress my mother." - Quinn
"Action!" - Jean-Luc
"L'amour et la dette and a healthy little interest in shady dealings." - Chantal
"Colour your eyes with what's not there." - Claude
"Dans l'tourbillon de la vie!" - Strange Joy
"These kinds of hotels are not for everyone." - Jean-Pierre
"Let's make the most of it then. Some get told how long they have..." - Jean-Pierre
"Merci. Je m'appelle Jean-Pierre." - Jean-Pierre
Meet the Production Crew
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Erika Latta
PRODUCTION
Director / Writer / Concept
Set Design / Set Construction
Filming credits: Director
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Montserrat Videla
PRODUCTION
Assistant Director
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Zhengyi Wu (Joy)
PRODUCTION
Stage Manager
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Stefan Smulovitz
PRODUCTION
Sound Design
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Darryl Strohan
PRODUCTION
Lighting Design
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Yifang (Irene) Weng
PRODUCTION
Assistant Lighting Designer
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Irfan Brković
PRODUCTION
Video Designer
Filming credits: Director
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Colleen Bayati
PRODUCTION
Assistant Video Designer
Filming credits: Assistant Director / Swing
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Tadeo Ríos Dávila
PRODUCTION
Video Operator
Filming credits: Cinematographer
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Carlo Marchet
PRODUCTION
Video Assistant
Filming credits: Camera Assistant
Cast
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Czarina Agustines
WINNIE / HOUSEKEEPER
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Breanne Birk
ABELLA / PA 2 / DANCER
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Zoë Braithwaite
JEANNE MOREAU / CATHERINE
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Sean Bray
QUINN / SPECIAL EFFECTS 1
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Marissa Capron
YASMINE / PA 1 / DANCER
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Athena Chan
IZA / WARDROBE
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Emma Ciprian
MARCY / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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Saskia Cseh
ANDI / AC / CLAPPER
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Katie Gherasim
ALTERNATE JOELLE / WRITER
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Jae Gonzales
JOELLE / WRITER
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Lauren Han
CJ / AD2
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Lachlan Harris-Fiesel
RAYMOND / PRODUCER
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Jillian Jarin
DOTTIE / DOCUMENTARIAN
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Kevin Jesuino
ANTONIO / CHEF
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Ruby Maher
RENEE / PA 3 / DANCER
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Max McLarnon
BEN / JEAN-PIERRE
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Eve Middleton-Meyer
ANNA VAUGHN / CLAUDE JADE
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Rosemary Morrison
ENID / CHANTAL
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Clare Noble
PRISCILLA / DOLORES
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Calla Roberts
SUZANNE
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Mavrik Yi Tong Sun
HAROLD / SPECIAL EFFECTS 2
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Terris J. Tan
MASON / JUN
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Aisha Wewala
Kelly / AD 1
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Liam Wilkins
JEAN-LUC FRANCIS / DIRECTOR
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Ruby Wu
SHARON / HAIR & MAKE-UP
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Emmanuel (Will) Zorzos
KAZ / SOUND GUY
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Erika Latta
THEATRE DIRECTOR
Inside Studio 149
Strange Joy Official Footage
Watch the full show here.
