Estoy Nadando Con Zaza
(dance, 16mm motion picture)
What can I do to honor you, now that it is too late? You, and the You that I come from, and the You that occasionally stands in for me. Coco Villa presents Estoy Nadando con Zaza, an ongoing intimacy between fact and the fantastical, real and imagined. Stills from dance film (2024).
Directed and Choreographed by Coco Villa
Performed by Benin Gardner and Coco Villa
Camera Operator - Shrey Mendiratta
Production Assistant - Jacquey Buckley
Hair - Nifemi Ogunro
Duration - 3:37
Estoy Nadando con Zaza is a year-long commission by Mono No Aware in collaboration with Westlab + Gallery. This commission invited six analog photographers and artists who have previously exhibited work at Westlab + Gallery to extend their art practice into the realm of moving image, making films on 16mm for the first time.
Mono No Aware, in tandem with Westlab + Gallery, provided each commissioned artist with workshops introducing the Bolex Rex 5 Camera, support in developing film concepts, camera, film and equipment for shoot days, as well as a workshop on the 4-plate Steenbeck flatbed editing table for all of the artists to edit their projects by hand.