Soft Focus
Soft Focus, a short film by Lucia Kickham and Luca Truffarelli, is a unique exploration of the blurred lines between order and chaos. The film follows an anxious body as it moves to release some control, allowing chaos to sit beside the order. As the protagonist moves through a world of hazy limits and obscured intersections, she holds these contradicting textures and desires in her body, seeking to soften the edges and exist in a less defined space.
“A beginning can allow for a sense of wonder. Give yourself permission to stay with that without defining what it is too quickly. Be in the finding, mine it without suffocating it.”
From Lucia’s notes for Middle End Beginning
photo Steve O’Connor
Destabilised and refueling, Lucia looks to fold the experience of the past year into her dance practice. Middle End Beginning looks at this process of re-tuning creative sensitivity and embraces the idea of powerful softness, in movement and in collaboration. It is a solo dance performance that is in a real-time conversation with a sound artist, writer and lighting designer.
photo Laura O’Loughlin
Middle End Beginning was presented as a live-stream sharing at Modes Of Capture Symposium 2021 in University of Limerick. Performed by Lucia Kickham, Jools Gilson, Craig Cox and Matt Burke.
Commissioned by Liz Roche Company with support from an Arts Council Commission Award.