France
2021
17'
Summary
They Dream in My Bones - Insemnopedy II is a transfixing meditation and a stirring experiential proposition that explores what fabric might bind the physical and metaphysical, and how to extract dreams from an unknown skeleton. This fictional circumstance tells the story of Roderick Norman, a researcher in onirogenetics — the science he founded — and opens up the intersection of the physical and the dreamworld, of gender and biology, and of an individual body and a symbiotic microbiome. A dreamy, minimalist scientific fable rendered in black and white, They Dream in My Bones incorporates the viscerality of textile dynamics with 3D drawings and images shot with a traditional camera. The resulting virtual reality film allows us to explore the metamorphosis of a skeleton at the frontier of gender and the human. Production : Le Fresnoy - studio national des arts contemporains
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Faye Formisano
Director
Artist-Filmmaker-Researcher,
Born in Toulouse in 1984, lives and works in Paris.
With textile as her language, dance and music as her influence, drawing as her core practice, and fantasy as her aesthetic, Faye Formisano makes films, VR installations, and performances. Highly inspired by literature and the scientific imagination, most of her stories are fables featuring ghostly figures in our contemporary world to explore the boundaries of identities, all marked by the undone bond, the loss of reference points, and the effects of violence.
After graduating from a master in art and textile design in Paris, she worked as graphic textile designer for fashion during ten years. She also collaborates with choreographers for national stages before directing two live shows (Beach Noise) in France and Spain (El Grito de la Montana) and several dance videos. In 2019, she starts her residency at the Fresnoy and directed her first short film « Insemnopedy I: The Dream of Victor F. » with the support of Bela Tarr. In 2021, she creates an immersive textile installation composed of a 360° virtual reality film mixing science and gender : : They Dream in My Bones - Insemnopedy II. (Dok Leipzig 2021, Sundance New Frontier 2022). She co-signed « Heaven In Matter » an animated movie based on her drawings mixing 2D and 3D technics with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
She presents her work in international galleries and festivals (Etrange Festival 2019, Les Utopiales, FFS Munich, ). In 2020, Faye Formisano began a PHD student with the CEAC laboratory at the University of Lille and Le Fresnoy. The subject of her thesis, «Draping the picture : usages and functions of the veil as a manifestation of troubled identities in fantasy cinema», supervised by Laurent Guido, a film theorist, and co-supervised by the director Bertrand Mandico.