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air: an opera for breath

air: an opera for breath

2017 · 8 min · Animation, Music

This wordless opera is animated and performed by the rising and falling of loaves of bread dough. Inspired by Baroque opera staging, Victorian monodrama, and contemporary design, it explores the corporeal body through the air that passes through it. Funded by a generous grant from Idea Capital.

Directed by Steve Morrison

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