Volker Gerling: "Portraits in Motion"

Presented by Theatre Junction, One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre and the Goethe-Institut
as part of the 31st annual High Performance Rodeo

Having walked over 3,500 kilometres through Germany, Gerling took photographs of people he met during his wanderings, creating a travelling “thumb cinema” exhibition — portraits in the form of photographic flipbooks.

In a style that is part lecture and part travelogue, Gerling reveals a selection of his favourite flipbooks. Using a video camera, he creates a spectacle that combines both the contemporary as well as much older forms of cinematic spectatorship. In a series of enchanting recollections, the subjects he photographed are momentarily brought to life as the theatre becomes a communal place of storytelling. This is a charming production that lives at the intersection of theatre, cinema and photography and was the recipient of a prestigious Total Theatre Award for Innovation and playing with form at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.



Volker Gerling studied film directing and cinematography at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.