FACES

  • Director

    Charly Wenzel

  • Country, Year, Length

    United States, 2020, 6:33

  • Category

    Experimental

  • Format

    Digital

  • Festival Year

    2021

Synopsis

“Faces” is a piece about the universality of a personal tragedy. It is about the anxieties that we are all going through in these uncertain times, and how escapism has become our saving grace. And how do we all escape? Through our dreams.

Credits

EMILIE – “Key Cast”
Nya Yeanafehn – “Key Cast”
Fernando Rockenbach – “Key Cast”
Henardo Rodriguez – “Key Cast”
Malika Kanatova – “Key Cast”
Anna Kaliuzhnaia – “Key Cast”
Agnes Chrakowiecka – “Key Cast”

Director Biography

Charly is an actress, dancer, choreographer, and award-winning filmmaker. She won multiple awards for her experimental films “Global Tides,” “Licht,” “Schein,” and “PAUSE,” which were screened at film festivals worldwide.
Charly was the Artistic Director of her own project-based dance company in NYC. She was the Associate Artistic Director of Naganuma Dance. She worked as the Rehearsal Director for Bodystories: Teresa Fellion Dance.
Charly danced at the Bavarian State Opera Ballet in Germany. She performed with Shadowbox Theater, Naganuma Dance, Keila Cordova Dances, Bodystories, LolaLola Dance Theater, Morningside Opera, Soul Movement, and others.
For the past four years, she was a performer in the Bessie award-winning production “Then She Fell” by Third Rail Projects.
More information at www.charlywenzel.com.