GILLES JOBIN / WOMB

Costumes / Design & Production / Client: Cie Gilles Jobin

WOMB is a stereoscopic choreographic film that offers an enhanced artistic experience through high-definition 3D technology.

The film unfolds an innovative form of spatial storytelling that combines stereoscopic imagery, choreography, visual art, and music. The action of WOMB unfolds within a continuum of space and time. An existential journey, an abstract analogy for the unfolding of life, the film draws on the depth of space and the volume of bodies to evoke a contemplative emotion.

The spectacular sets designed by visual artist Sylvie Fleury consist of backdrops arranged in false perspective, an abstract living room, and a cave. These sets blend beautifully with the hybrid costumes by Belgian designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard and the atmospheric music by Franz Treichler, leader of the band The Young Gods. WOMB is performed by three dancers: Gilles Jobin, Susana Panadés Diaz, and Martin Roehrich.

Award-winning at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, WOMB has been presented at, among others, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, the Solothurner Filmtage, the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City, the Lyon Dance Biennale, the Festival Courant 3D in Clermont-Ferrand, CINEDANS in Amsterdam, and the Festival Internacional de Danza in Buenos Aires.