Taiwan
2024
11 ' / 10' / 12''
Summary
Craig Quintero's "Just For You" Trilogy: All That Remains (2022) is a meditation on the shifting boundary between dream and reality, fear and desire. It is an invitation to see and be seen. Over The Rainbow (2023) explores the precarious balance between desire and happiness, fantasy and familiarity. A Simple Silence (2024) is the final chapter of Riverbed Theatre's "Just For You" trilogy, which premiered in Venice in 2022 with All That Remains and continued in 2023 with Over The Rainbow. Production: Riverbed Theatre.
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Craig Quintero
Director
Craig Quintero (b. 1970, USA) is the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company. He has written and directed over fifty original imagebased performances, including productions in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, France, Germany, and the United States. He is also a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been shown at the Asian Biennial, Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei MOCA, and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. His VR experience, All That Remains, premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival (2022) and won the prize for Best Immersive Experience at the 2023 Luxembourg Film Festival and Best 360 VR Film at the Kaohsiung Film Festival. His second VR experience, Over the Rainbow, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and was selected for the "Best of" section for the 80th Venice Film Festival (2023). The project won the Panorama Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. His most recent project, A Simple Silence, premiered at the Venice FIlm Festival. Craig was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2023. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar, Craig received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is a Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College.