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5 directors communicate

Theatre people prefer to work and meet live. Prefer to hug, squeeze, touch hands, punch or at least talk to each other while experiencing the breath coming from each other's mouths. But since we don't have this option all the time, the 5 movie directors meet in phone conferences' booths in a virtual space which we can enter by dialing a secret code. Everytime we spent quite some time to talk about how much nicer it would be to meet live and which technical options would help us get at least a little bit of that feeling.

After this same routine, we talked about the language question yesterday. How to shoot a movie with actors speaking 5 different languages? It was wonderful to see how many different solutions were put on the (virtual) table and how clearly they grew in different cultures and even more specifically in these 5 concrete theatres with different handwritings.

The Austrians are sure they will find a way by reaching to the enormous wonderous bag of theatre tools we use on impro stage anyhow. The Germans are worried and are making plans how to develop this topic further. The Swedes are quiet and nodding in a thinkful way (which the author of this blog entry can only imagine since we had a phone and not a video conference). The Slovenians want to avoid language and communicate with as little words as possible. And the French? Of course they will force all the actors to speak in French. As simple as that. Voilà!

The more we talk, the closer we are to each other. It could go the other way too, but somehow it doesn't ;)

Maja Dekleva Lapajne, director from "Kolektiv Narobov" (Ljubljana, Slovenia), about communication amongst the five different directors.

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