Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 presents
Last Gasp WFH
by Split Britches
Country: United States | Running Time: 87 | Language: English | Year Of Release: 2020
About Last Gasp WFH
Last Gasp WFH was developed in a site-specific Zoom format transforming a quarantine-home into a stage for the experience of sheltering in place. Last Gasp WFH looks for ways we might catch our breath in these times of global uncertainty, considering our ‘last acts’ in a series of verbal and physical essays that playfully dances through the dangerous intersections of permanence and impermanence, interdependence and care, knowledge and experience, narcissism and echoes.
Created in collaboration with Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Nao Nagai, Vivian Stoll, and Morgan Thorson. Written and performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, Directed by Lois Weaver, Video design and editing by Nao Nagai, Sound design by Vivian Stoll, Movement by Morgan Thorson, Company Producer Laura Hunter Petree.
Last Gasp is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, in addition to the Wellcome Trust, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Research residencies for development of Last Gasp were completed with the Guthrie Theatre, Metal Culture, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, the Barbican, and Artec at University 8 Paris.
About Split Britches
Founded in New York in 1980, Split Britches is the duo and solo work of foundational lesbian performance artists Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Their work spans satirical, gender-bending performance, methods for public engagement, videography, digital and print media, and explorations of ageing and wellbeing. Split Britches are committed to intergenerational, interclass, and racially diverse conversation as a method for political action, creating space for women, queers, and all marginalized people
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
Watch Last Gasp WFH from March 1st to March 15th 2022 on the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) website.
Support this film by Split Britches by making a direct donation to them at the following details: https://paypal.me/splitbritches?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
Read more about Split Britches and Last Gasp WFH at (https://www.split-britches.com/, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/theater/split-britches-last-gasp-wfh.html) or get in touch at laura@split-britches.com / Facebook @Split Britches / Twitter @Split_Britches / Instagram @thesplitbritches
