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Plastic Bag Store: the Film Robin Frohardt PLASTIC BAG STORE: THE FILM ROBIN FROHARDT Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel ART MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER WELCOME TO UCLA’S CENTER FOR THE ART OF PERFORMANCE UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) is the public facing research and presenting organization for the performing arts at the University of California, Los Angeles—one of the world’s leading public research universities. We are housed within the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture along with the Hammer and Fowler museums. The central pursuit of our work as an organization is to sustain the diversity of contemporary performing artists while celebrating their contributions to culture. We acknowledge, amplify and support artists through major presentations, commissions and creative development initiatives. Our programs offer audiences a direct connection to the ideas, perspectives and concerns of living artists. Through the lens of dance, theater, music, literary arts, digital media arts and collaborative disciplines, informed by diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, artists and audiences come together in our theaters and public spaces to explore new ways of seeing that expands our understanding of the world we live in now. cap.ucla.edu #CAPUCLA CAP UCLA Presents PLASTIC BAG STORE: THE FILM ROBIN FROHARDT Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel Approximate run time: 60 minutes, no intermission Followed by a post-show discussion with Robin Frohardt and CAP UCLA’s Executive and Artistic Diector Kristy Edmunds Plastic Bag Store: The Film was commissioned by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance with additional support by the Adelaide Festival, Times Square Arts and Pomegranate Arts. Funds for Plastic Bag Store: The Film provided in part by the James A. Doolittle Endowment. MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST Dear Most Valued Customers: It’s almost impossible for me to try to explain what it is you are about to watch and the journey it took to get here. I started working on The Plastic Bag Store in 2015 after watching someone bag and double bag all my groceries that were already bags inside of bags inside of boxes. I wanted to highlight the absurd amount of packaging we are using and throwing away by making something even more absurd, a grocery store that only sold packaging. Over time the project evolved into an elaborate immersive puppet play with transforming sets and hidden rooms. For several years, my amazing team and I slowly pieced together this epic beast of a project. Sometimes that meant working with the support of prestigious residencies at architectural firms and fellowships at Universities. But more often it meant grueling rehearsals, endless schlepping and hours spent sifting through NYC garbage. With all the pieces finally in place and a venue to die for, The Plastic Bag Store was set to open in the heart of Times Square on March 18, 2020...ya know... the day the whole world shut down? We did one amazing dress rehearsal and locked the doors and walked away. I think part of me wanted to give up after that. When the opportunity presented itself to create a filmed version of the project, I was relieved that there would be some record of what we created (we didn’t film that rehearsal). I never imagined how beautiful the film would turn out, and how perfectly it would capture the story as I see it in my head. We then found a way to integrate the film into the installation for a live experience which we ultimately got to show in Times Square and take to Australia! So, creating the film has made The Plastic Bag Store viable and tourable in this time in a way that other projects haven’t been. For that, I cannot be more grateful. Plastic Bag Store: The Film is a labor of love from many hands. The film is in no way a substitute for seeing the complete installation live, but it tells a story that I have been dying to tell you for a very long time. -Robin Frohardt ABOUT THE PROGRAM Plastic Bag Store: The Film Created by Robin Frohardt Original music by Freddi Price Puppeteers: Nick Lehane, Admiral Grey, Rowan Magee, Andy Manjuck, and Emma Wiseman Featuring Tyler Gunther as Tyler Dorritos Voices: Freddi Price, Andy Manjuck, Rosemary Quinn Additional Shopkeepers: Chad Raines, Erica Schnitzer Director of Photography Robert Kolodny Produced by Caitlin Mae Burke and Robin Frohardt Executive Producers Linda Brumbach and Alisa E. Regas Production Management by Pomegranate Arts, Production Manager Jeremy Lydic, Geneneral Manager Rachel Katwan Additonal Camera Adam Kolodny Location Sound Chad Raines Production Coordinator Erica Zippel Schintzer Editors: Robert Kolodny and Robin Frohardt Sound Design and Mix: Lawrence Everson Additonal Sound Design: Chad Raines Video Post-production Services: House of Nod The Plastic Bag Store was conceived as an immersive installation and puppet- theater piece designed to take place in a storefront retail space. Yucky Shards cereal, Bagorade sports drink, Fabags deodorizers boasting “that fresh bag scent”, rotisserie chickens, cupcakes and sushi are among the thousands of hand sculpted items—all made from discarded plastic bags. The store was scheduled to open in March 2020 to coincide with New York’s plastic bag ban but was postponed due to the city’s COVID-19 lockdown ultimately opening in a vacant Times Square storefront for a limited audience in Fall 2020 earning a spot on the NY Times’ Best of 2020 Theater list. For L.A. audiences, Frohardt and her team will reimagine a visit to The Plastic Bag Store through a new film commissioned by CAP UCLA. Plastic Bag Store: The Film transforms the installation into a dynamic series of stories that traverse ancient history, the present day and a future dystopia. The Plastic Bag Store employs inventive puppetry, humor, craft and a critical lens to explore how the hordes of plastic waste might be misinterpreted by future generations. ABOUT THE ARTIST Photo by Maria Baranova Robin Frohardt is an award-winning artist, puppet designer, and director living in Brooklyn, NY. Frohardt’s performance and puppetry-based work has been presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse and HERE in New York City, as well as national venues including the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts and the NEXTNOW Festival in Maryland. Her films have been screened at the Telluride Film Festival, Maritime Film Festival, and the Parish Museum. Her original play The Pigeoning, which debuted in 2013 and was hailed by the New York Times as “a tender, fantastical symphony of the imagination,” continues to tour in the US and abroad, and has been translated into German, Greek, Arabic and Turkish. She has received a Creative Capital Award and a DisTil Fellowship from Carolina Performing Arts for The Plastic Bag Store; has been the recipient of Made In NY Woman’s Fund Grant Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowship; and was the first artist in Residence at Olson Kundig, a renowned design and architecture firm in Seattle. In addition to directing her own work, Frohardt’s puppetry and props have also appeared in TV shows such as Orange is the New Black and 30 Rock as well as Radio City Music Hall’s Spring Spectacular. ABOUT THE TEAM freddi price (Composer) is a multi-disciplinary performing and recording artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, composer, actor and voiceover artist. Over the years he has collaborated, composed and performed with bands, artists and stage productions on both US coasts in addition to touring in the US and Europe with his talents and music having been featured by the likes of David Byrne, Eric Burdon, Ann Magnuson among many others on stage and on recordings. His compositions, performances and voice have accompanied theater productions in San Francisco and New York. For his original music for Robin Frohardt’s previous NYC puppet theater piece, The Pigeoning, he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play. Besides providing music for theater and some commercial work, fp also performs on many instruments and voice in a variety of forms and genres, from solo to large groups, blues to rock and soul, brass band and cabaret. Robert Kolodny (Director of Photography) is an Emmy Award winning Director and Cinematographer. He has contributed cinematography to film works by David Byrne, The Safdie Brothers, Laura Poitras and Robert Greene; for projects that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Criterion Channel. Robert has created and publicly displayed site-specific video installations that have been shown on exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery. His short film FLY ON OUT was screened at the Court Métrage at the Festival de Cannes. He garnered a Vimeo Staff Pick for his short ALLO ALLO. Lawrence Everson (Sound Design & Mix) is an Emmy Award winning and Golden Reel nominated sound editor and re-recording mixer for feature films. He has worked on a wide variety of award-winning projects that have taken home prizes from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and the Academy Awards. His work also includes broadcast series, interactive audio design and advertising, including a Super Bowl spot. Educated at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, he has returned there to guest lecture for the Interactive Media Division. Lawrence has also spoken as a featured panelist at Hot Docs and the Maryland Film Festival regarding the art of documentary sound, lectured classes at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri and David Lynch’s MA in Film program, been an advisor for the Saul Zaentz Innovation Labs and has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine, Creative Cow Magazine and Pro Sound News.
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