Cine Club: Strange Fish

Cine Club: Dance on Film is a regular evening of dance film screenings at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Curated by Luke Murphy - Attic Projects, Cork city dance artist in residence, Cine Club is an informal, relaxed night of short and feature-length dance films (and popcorn) from Irish and international artists.

Strange Fish
55' | 1992 | UK

In Strange fish, filmed in 1992, the thoughts of the protagonists revolve around a desire to escape loneliness.

“What most marks out the work of DV8 from pieces by other groups is the clarity of our message. Our aim is to portray how people interact with one another. That is more important to me than patterns ans spatial structures”. - Llyod Newson

Nigel Charnock delivers one of his feverish manic monologues and suceeds only in alienating the couples present, thus distancing himself from what he most desires : “it’s nice if you can find somebody special, somebody who is special in your life (…) because there is no need to be alone”

Choreography Lloyd Newson
Film Director David Hinton
Company DV8 Physical Theatre
Collection Numeridanse
Year of production 1992