A LIVING SPACE – ONE SEASON AT ROBERT WILSON’S WATERMILL CENTER

The Laboratory for Performance – Watermill Center is considered as one of the most ambitious works of art by Robert Wilson: It’s there that every year he gathers almost a hundred young artists from all over the world, whom he then directs, or “stages,” during the 50 days of the Watermill Summer Program. For the very first time in 2014, Wilson has authorised a cinematographic crew to film the exceptional creative ferment of the program. The only condition was that they were not mere observers, but also active participants, fully immerged in the artistic effervescence and integrated in the everyday life of the community. The hundreds of hours of raw footage, testimonies from rehearsals and images from the very heart of the amazing artistic environment will mutually inform each other to give birth to a unique document on the relentless creative flurry, underlying all Robert Wilson’s works.