The Closest Farthest Away

The Closest Farthest Away, Workshop at CalArts, March 2008

This piece was an interdisciplinary project that has been generated by CalArts students, recent alums and artists in Havana who have built this process-driven collaboration as an attempt to start an artistic dialog between cultures that have been blockaded for 50 years. The result is a hybrid of cinema and live performance as a way of connecting space and distance through the use of digital media. The performance was built by co-writers, directors, musicians and producers from both Cuba and the US as a way of finding a mutual and diverse voice. The workshop developed a hybrid of film and live theater.