SO VERY CLOSE, 2022
Full-HD-Video
6:47 min

Four performers are on a spacious lawn. They stroke the grass, pull on it, jump, stomp, crawl and slide on the organic surface. A meeting of ground and body between friction and tenderness.

Artistic Direction and Concept: Renate Mihatsch
Performance: iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo, Brigitte Huezo, Katharina Senzenberger, Benze C. Werner
Sound Composition: Isabelle Finou
Violin: iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo
Styling: Marie-Luise Wolf
Videography: Linda Schefferski
Editing: Renate Mihatsch
Color Grading Support: Nils Ramme
Technical Support Installation: Friedrich Boell
A production by Renate Mihatsch, co-produced by Cheers for Fears in cooperation with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr as part of the Cheers for Fears TRANSIT program for artistic research and production. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR and the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste.
The video footage was taken during a public live performance in 2021 @ Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr.