Scarface / Eddie LaddFebruary 16th 20h and 22h / studio d’Essai
The film is shifted to another location, to another language (English side by side with Welsh), and employs a range of cinematographic and theatric methods. The artist attempts not only to examine the interstitial space between theatre art and the Big Screen, but also a metaphor of the Wales/England condition by drawing a parallel with the status of Cuba and the United States. Employing the cinematographic technique of incrustation, Eddie Ladd’s Scarface is half danced by the artist and half acted out before a blue screen facing the audience. Captured simultaneously by video camera and relayed live, the image is then superimposed on a rural backdrop. The plot is transferred to the childhood place of the artist, her parents’ farm in the western part of Wales. The final product is a polysemous version of the gangster movie universe and of its narrative plot, open to past and future interpretations, and to a world different in every respect About Eddie Ladd Eddie Ladd is a multidisciplinary artist whose work unites dance, music and new media. Her performances now and then take place in somewhat unusual locations, such as opera houses, fields, and corn silos, but in more accustomed locations as well. She focuses particularly on creative biographies like that of Maria Callas and Leni Rienfenstahl, and on Hollywood film remakes set in new surroundings and new languages. Eddie Ladd earned a degree in theatre at the University College of Wales in 1985. A few years later, she took up an association with Brith Gof which lasted over 10 years. She began her own solo work in 1993, with works including Scarface, Once Upon A Time In The West, and Club Luz. She is currently working on a number of web based projects. Eddie Ladd would like to thank :
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The performance Scarface is a tribute to Brian De Palma’s eponym film released in 1983. In this new remake version, Eddie Ladd takes on the role of Al Pacino, playing Tony Montana, a Cuban in exile who attempts to make a place for himself in the Miami mafia.
