रक़ीब; Raqeeb

रक़ीब (raqeeb) is a series that features a performative culinary experience at Shoreditch Art’s Club, a comedy show, and a number of open rehearsals being conducted in the AAIS Studio. The open rehearsals are devising sessions that will be cinematically filmed.

We treat dadaism as an ontology for examining empathy and compassion. We consider the two to be teleologically volatile, accepting them to be an ‘a posteriori’ matter of concern.

The Short-Film; रक़ीब (Raqeeb) is an attempt at situating a simulated dinner party as a site for biopolitical transgression to tend towards an Avant Garde empathy. We reiterate, that we have a rhetoric more primal to us than our larger social dramaturgies, and it is important for us to harmonize both of them.

Warning.

You might see men, women and such like creatures; of which we make anatomy.

Symbols are these. Signs. We say no more.

They are social adults being social adults.

People, even wicked people are more naive and whole hearted than one generally assumes.

We’re transgressive on purpose.

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It is a bit weird but it works.

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Credit List:

Costume Art and Design: Beatriz Marco Sanchez-Peral, Violet Yue Cao (Violet), Qian Yang

Choreography, Devising and Performance: Anneli Tan, Carmen De Mattia, Emma Edwards, Faye Singleton, Isabella Gaynor, Shea Sullivan, Serra Kösebay, Tom Germain, Yuchen Yolanda Wu

Cinematographer: Amalia Ekshenger

Dramaturgy: Anureet Watta, Atimanyu Vashishth

Graphic Design: Eddie Farrell, Farah Aly

Lighting Design: Amalia Ekshenger, Charon Hu, Diganta Ghorai

Script: Anureet Watta, Atimanyu Vashishth

Sound Design: Farah Aly

VFX and Art Direction: Diganta Ghoria

Voice Artists: Abhishek Wagle, Ana Reyes Cid, Beatriz Marco Sanchez-Peral, Charon Hu, Eddie Farrell, Farah Aly, Onojie Idemudia

Directed By Atimanyu Vashishth