Oona Spengler

The lecture considers three main subjects: the making of a documentary, the differences between film and live performance as art forms, and the place of the audience in art. The session will begin with the group's personal experience at the Watermill Center, comparing their expectations to their concrete memories and questioning the confrontation of two different forms of art. What does live performance allow that cinema does not? What does cinema carry that live performance cannot? By inviting visitors to receive their impressions of the group's experience as a documentary crew filming the work of a Brazilian theater company, they hope to expand the conversation by exploring the very important function of the audience facing art.