We would have been presenting the live show of The Making of Pinocchio at the Venice Biennale Theatre Festival this week.
In March we pulled out of the programme due to the Biennale's refusal to exclude the Israel Pavilion, standing in solidarity with the Art Not Genocide Alliance. You can read our full statement on instagram @cademacaskill.
Instead, we are making the digital version of The Making of Pinocchio available to watch online from 20th - 30th June 2024. This is a 75 minute film in English with captions hosted on Vimeo. You can access it by purchasing a pay-what-you-can ticket to receive the link.
We will give half of the money raised to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's fund - providing vital medical help to the children of Gaza, and the other half will be split between our team of freelance arts workers who lost out on their fees due to our decision to withdraw in protest of the Biennale's failure to exclude Israel.
THE MAKING OF PINOCCHIO DIGITAL EDITION:
A true tale of love and transition told through the story of Pinocchio.
In this hybrid of theatre and film, shot and edited all in one take in 2021,
you are invited to go
behind the scenes of Cade & MacAskills creative process and their
relationship, and
question what it takes to tell your truth.
Artists and lovers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill have been creating The
Making of
Pinocchio since 2018, alongside and in response to Ivors gender transition.
In this digital
edition of the work, their tender and complex autobiographical experience
meets the
magical story of the lying puppet who wants to be a real boy.
With an ingenious scenography designed by Tim Spooner, layered with sound by
Yas
Clarke, lights by Jo Palmer and cinematography from Kirstin McMahon, the
show
employs split-screen, forced perspective and intimate close ups to constantly
shift
between between fantasy and authenticity, humour and intimacy, on stage and
on
screen.
The Making of Pinocchio joyfully embraces the importance of imagination in
queer
worldmaking and the idea of transness as a state of possibility that can
trouble fixed
perspectives and inspire change.
The film is captioned including sound descriptions.
There is nudity and some descriptions of transphobia, although the film centres trans love and joy.
