Shorts by Thick & Tight

public screening

9th August 2020, 10.00 PM

Odprti oder Muzejska ploščad

Metelkova, Ljubljana

ENGEL

Edd Arnold, Thick & Tight

Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)

Weimar cabaret and Hollywood film star; icon of sexual liberation; boxer; mother; angel; monster. Marlene Dietrich preserves her legend in troubled seclusion.

“I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now”

Marlene Dietrich: EDD ARNOLD

Wig and make-up: DARREN EVANS

Lighting design: LUCY HANSOM

Music: MARLENE DIETRICH and the FRIEDRICH HOLLAENDER ORCHESTRA, GIRL BAND

Duration: 7 min

SOUP

Harry Alexander, Thick & Tight

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Celebrity phenomenon and Studio 54 regular, Warhol's mother continued to serve him soup when the sickly child became a Pop Art superstar.

“I am a deeply superficial person”

Andy Warhol: HARRY ALEXANDER

Design: TIM SPOONER

Lighting design: LUCY HANSOM

Music: GRACE JONES, LOU REED, LES RITA MITSOUKO

Duration: 10min

EMPIRE

Vidya Patel, Thick & Tight

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Icon of wartime Britain, Churchill led campaigns in the British Empire which caused immense suffering in India, Wales, Ireland and beyond. We consider how past and present immigration and foreign policies continue to affect those home and abroad in devastating ways.

Winston Churchill: VIDYA PATEL

Design: TIM SPOONER

Lighting design: LUCY HANSOM

Music: THE PRODIGY, BRAHMA SRI TIRUCHNDUR APPADURAI AIYENGAR

Duration: 8 min

POMP

Gary Clarke, Thick & Tight

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

“Be gone now, or I will make you shorter by the head!”

Thrones. Fanfare. Smallpox. Armada. Executions. Wigs. Spies. Tower of London. Ermine. Pageants. Rebellion. Alchemy. Our Liz.

Queen Elizabeth: GARY CLARKE

Design: TIM SPOONER