Liz Roche Company / Invisible Thread Films

Näher

premiere at Cork International Film Festival November 7th 2021

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Our dance film Näher to premiere at Cork International Film Festival November 7th 2021.
Filmed in Dublin’s Goethe Institut, Näher is a dance film directed by Alan Gilsenan, choreographed by Liz Roche and co-created by Shane O’Reilly, that follows four lost souls as they move and gather in shared moments of remembrance, bringing life to haunted spaces new and old, evoking fleeting memories and suspended dreams.

The film draws from the original production of Näher… closer, nearer, sooner commissioned by Goethe Institut Irland on the occasion of its re-opening at 37 Merrion Square in 2018. The live promenade dance piece premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 and explored W.B. Yeats’ belief that the dead dream backwards through their lives. Journeying through different rooms of the building, the choreography offered opportunities to dream back into the lives of the performers and share in their search for the moments of most meaning to them.

CREDITS

Directed by Alan Gilsenan

Created and Choreographed by Liz Roche

Co-created by Shane O’Reilly

Dancers Finola Cronin, Kévin Coquelard, Liv O'Donoghue, Grant McLay

Director of Photography Colm Hogan

Original Music: Ray Harman

Camera Assistant Aoife Quinn

Sound Recordist Kieran Horgan

Costumes by Catherine Fay

Costume Maker Mara Kuvika

Editor Bjorn Mac Giolla

Online Edit & Grade Michael Higgins

Sound Mix Paul Finan

Graphics Hugh Rodgers

Producer Zlata Filipović
Produced by Liz Roche Company and Invisible Thread Films
Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Goethe Institut Irland, Dublin City Council.

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Liz Roche Company is strategically funded by the Arts Council