with Bea Rodrigues, Diethild Meier,Irene Selka, Joyce Lainé, Julek Kreutzer, Jules Elting, Léa Lanoë, Letícia da Rosa, Licia Soldavini, Marcela Reichelt, Marion Breton, Melissa Dullius, Nina Cavalcanti, Simone Donha, Vanessa Heeger, Bernardo Zanotta, Felix Koch
Produced by Dedé Veloso, Nina Cavalcanti
Editors Aline Bonvin, Nina Cavalcanti
Camera Melissa Dullius, Bernardo Zanotta, Léa Lanoë, Joyce Lainé, Marion Breton
Assistant director and and movement consultant Simone Donha
Executive producer Letícia da Rosa
Lighting Irene Selka
Lighting assistant Helen Fritze
Sound recording Letícia da Rosa Vanessa Heeger
Sound design Nina Cavalcanti
Guitars Ignacio Villa
Sound mixing David Debris
Color grading Gustavo Jahn
Set photographer Bea Rodrigues
Graphic design and poster Celina Kuschnir

2022, experimental-dance-film, 16mm, 8’45’’

She’s Ready raises questions about the roles people play in everyday life. More than that, the film sheds light on the movements of women’s bodies, reaffirming their creative ability and freedom to make their own lives.

She’s Ready explores the choreographic aspects of a wedding and freely reworks its movements in an improvised way with actresses and dancers. On stage, other women add other versions, colours and sparkles to the body of the bride. The film deconstructs narratives and creates others, revealing alternative rhythms and dances by playing with body language and gesture.

Assuming that life is construction and a creative process, the film playfully touches (on) and exposes the boundaries that separate fact and fiction, life and the stage. Layers of sound and image explode the limit between what is on camera and what is off. Everything is film and performance and everything is real. She’s Ready is about gestures, attitudes, choices and movements.

Screenings:

• DOBRA Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental, 27 – 30 September/2023 Cinemateca do MAM, Rio de Janeiro/Brasil, and 3- 8 de outubro, CCSP, São Paulo/Brasil
• Shortcutz Berlin, (April/2023)
• LUFF – Lauzanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Experimental Shorts Program, (October/2023)
• Verbo – Festival de Performances, Galeria Vermelho (Sao Paulo) and ChãoSLZ (MA), (June/2022)
• Erotics of Exile (Brazilian Queer Shorts), Amsterdam, Film Huiscavia, curated by Bernardo Zanotta (April/2022)
• Avant premiere – La Generale Nordest – Paris, curated by Gustavo Jahn (April/2022)