Mourning Stage
In Mourning Stage, a series of drawings by Motta is used as a performance score. These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons, feminized characters suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.
Original and English title: MOURNING STAGE
Directed & Produced by: Simon(e) J. Paetau & Carlos Motta
Performance by: Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Associate Producer: Kristina Konrad
Countries of production: Germany, Colombia, USA
Year: 2022
Length: 16:29 Minutes
Language: No dialogue
Genre: Experimental / Video performance / Short Film
Color / B&N: Color
Colombian-German artist Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau collaborated with Nadia Granados, Natalia Escobar, and Carlos Motta to create three artworks, all of which are being showcased at the Berlinische Galerie, one of the most important art spaces in the German capital.
El Espectador / The three Colombian works in the Berlinische Galerie / 13.09.2023
Selection of Festivals, Exhibitions & Awards
Tono Festival: Video Art Program 2024
Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art 2023, Solo Exhibition
Berlin Art Week – Wilhelm Hallen 2023
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023, National Premiere in Germany
Bogota Short Film Festival – Bogoshorts 2022, National Premiere in Colombia, Santa Lucía Award for Best Colombian Experimental Film
Wexner Center of the Arts 2022, National Premiere in the United States
Credits
A video by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU & CARLOS MOTTA | Performed by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU | Director of Photography: LOLA GÓMEZ CASTELLO | Original Music: ISABEL GONZÁLEZ TORO | Soundtrack Assistant: JOSÉ MARULANDA | Visual Design (Vfx) / Animation: FERNANDO GREGÓRIO | Second Camera: CARLOS ANDRÉS LÓPEZ | Make-Up: MARÍA FERNANDA CEPEDA | Titles Design: LAURYN SIEGEL | Colorist: MARTIN BACKHAUS | Lighting Assistant: LUIS HERNANDO CUBILLOS | Boom Operator: JESÚS GUEVARA | Still Photography: CAMILO DELGADO | Sound Mix: RUBÉN VALDÉS | Field Producer: JUAN DAVID CORREAL | Production Director: PAOLA ANDREA PÉREZ NIETO | Production Coordinator: CATALINA PATARROYO VELÁSQUEZ | Field Production: OFICINA INERCIA PELÍCULAS, NATALIA ORDOÑEZ GARCÍA, CAMILO CÁRDENAS SUÁREZ, ALEJANDRA GÓMEZ OSORIO, SARA LOBOA, ELIZABETH HERNÁNDEZ | Distribution: LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA | Special thanks to: ALEJANDRA SARRIA, ESPACIO ODEÓN, BOGOTÁ
Co-produced by Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, the Goethe-Institute Kolumbien, and WeltFilm. With the support from the XI Berlin Biennale.
Date:
December 1, 2022