In Noe's words...
"These flamenco drawings were made in the period around 2018 while I was completing my film Carmen Magellan."
"Drawing with ink is so immediate compared to working with 16mm film that I often create ink drawings as a quick emotional response to the longer projects that I am working on and live performances that have inspired me."
"The dancers in these drawings seem to fit the role of “protagonist” to me, as in the 'main character' in a theatrical sense. In fact, they seem to stand out quite separately from their environments."
"The drawing with the chair and cajon is almost comical since the dancer would likely not be dancing in tablao without a guitarist, singer and other percussionists. It shows how little I understood of flamenco at the time!"
"The film was a very important and personal project to me, and reflects on how I came to learn about flamenco as an outsider, and how the art form became a vehicle for meaning and catharsis in my own life."
BIOGRAPHY
Noe Kidder (b.1974, Syracuse, NY) earned her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied experimental filmmaking with Tatsu Aoki.
Noe has exhibited her films internationally, most recently at The Sanskriti Museum in Hazaribagh, India, Un Festival C’est Trop Court in Nice, France, and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival.
She also screens her films with Millennium Film Workshop, Anthology Film Archives, le Petit Versailles and The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City.