La Medea TRAILER
Photo by Maria Baranova
Photo by Maria Baranova
Poster by Ryan Hartley
Photo by Ryan Hartley Smith
Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2017. Live band and screening for Dance Films Association.
JOE’S PUB Screening, 2018. Photo by Katia Repina
Photo By Darren Phillip Hoffman
Photo by Maria Baranova
Photo by Maria Baranova
Photo by Darren Phillip Hoffman
PRESS QUOtes
“A modern-day Medea is mythology’s 'nasty woman'” VICE Creators Project
“As if Terrence Malick had directed a selfie.” HYPERALLERGIC
“Travieso flipped the switch on Euripides to the story’s bluff.” BeLatina
“La Medea dates back to 2014, before the #MeToo movement took off, before our current president was elected into office, before Dr. Ford told her story on live television. And yet, its message resonates ever more profoundly now.” Artburst
“La Medea could mark a new age of empowerment.” Miami Herald
“Travieso’s Medea challenges the idea of a ‘dangerous,’ ‘hysterical,’ foreign woman, instead revealing an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her.” Miami Artzine
“La Medea boils an ancient Greek story from hyper masculinity to the personal pain of one woman” Plays To See
“A spectacle that upends any attempt to pin it down.” Broadway World
“A circular experience that redefines 'interactive'“ No Film School
“A musical and a film simultaneously! You are not watching, you are part of it! Think Latin disco and Greek tragedy all in one, what else do you need?” WLRN
“La Medea, the multiple faces of a feminist heroine” El Nuevo Herald
“Don’t expect to sit back. This is an interactive experience. The audience is not walking into a theater but instead onto a film set and acting as a Greek chorus.” Ch 7 WSVN
WINNER OF
Creative Capital Award
SXSW Panel Picker
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures via The Ford Foundation
Performance Space 122 RAMP
BRIC Lab
RECENT SCREENINGS
BRICxHome, 2020
Creative Capital, 2020
UnionDocs, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2019
Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2017
HowlRound Theater Commons, 2018
MDC Live Arts, 2018
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, 2018
ODC Theater, 2018
Dance on Camera Film Festival, 2017
SXSW Panel Picker, 2017
Miami Film Festival, 2017
Cucalorus Film Festival, 2017
YoungArts Outside The Box, 2017
Twitch TV, 2017
BRIC Arts, 2017
Amherst College, 2017
COIL Festival 2017
synopsis
La Medea re-imagines Euripides’ tragic myth into a made for camera latin-disco-pop musical film. Often screened with the live score performed by the original live band inside the cinematheque, this unique feature film was directed, performed, shot, and edited in real time, creating a high-stakes vulnerability for cast, crew, and audiences alike. Performers and camera women play the characters, while in-studio audiences act as the Greek chorus and film extras. The pervasive figure of the wild foreign woman who vengefully murders her own children is shattered in this genre-bending multidimensional dismantling of an ongoing toxic myth. Challenging cinematic traditions and portrayals of women on screen and in myth, La Medea dismantles notions of a “dangerous,” “hysterical,” foreign woman. The film reveals an infinite woman that rejects the limited gaze imposed on her for centuries.
credits
Written, directed, choreographed, and edited by Yara Travieso (co-producer)
Original music and libretto by Sam Crawford
Produced by Brighid Greene
Starring Rena Butler
Featuring Catherine Correa, Tiffany Mellard, Erick Montes, Sol Koeraus
Music performed by Jason And The Argonauts
Featuring Liz de Lise, Zeb Gould, Jeff Hudgins, Timothy Quigley, Anthony Mascorro
Set designs by Brookhart Jonquil
Costume designs by Sue Julien
Lighting design by Tuce Yasak
Original illustrations and Mask Design by Ryan Hartley Smith
Production Manager Stacey Boggs
Director of photography Pamela Giaroli
Assistant Director and Assoc. Cinematographer Liz Charky
Camera operator Jaanelle Pichaco
Livestream producer Galen Bremer
Livestream consultant Sasha Popov
Live film colorist Joe Bender
Live graphics producer Brighid Greene
Interactive web engineer Yuraima Estevez
Digital designer Drue Alleigh Thomas
Post-production colorist Stephanie Gould
La Medea, 2017-2019 is a Creative Capital production, commissioned by Performance Space NY in partnership with BRIC Arts Media House, Dance Films Association and AbelCine. The film version of La Medea was produced by Brighid Greene, Galen Bremer, and Paul Galando and creative produced by Jonathan David Kane.
SCREENING inquiries
Please contact producer, Brighid Greene brighid.greene@gmail.com