Film still from CAN YOU GIVE US A HAND… (2023) by PJ Verhoest
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CAN YOU GIVE US A HAND... is a film, a documentary of sorts, capturing both factual/actual happenings in space and time, as well attempting (through its construction and presentation) to convey feelings of joy, playfulness, anxiety, horror, beauty and connection. The process itself took place from mid to end of August, completely contained in CPR's two studios. All sounds and images were created and recorded within those spaces. After the last three years, creating largely solitary work (a reality made necessary by global pandemic and personal trauma) I (PJ Verhoest: avid cracker of knuckles) was craving collaboration. To exhaust the pun, I was really looking for a hand! I found six: Tamara Leigh (press-on-nail enthusiast), Tori Mazzacone Ruthen (aspiring ambidextrous), and Nikki Theroux (a righty who always wanted to be a lefty). We entered this process together, unsure of what we were getting ourselves into, but in the darkness, found each other.
The evening will consist of a very low-key showing of our film, CAN YOU GIVE US A HAND... The run time of the film is 28 minutes, and we'll try to press play close to 7:15pm (give or take a minute or two). The score of entirely original music was created by PJ Verhoest as well as the editing of the film itself. Feel free to arrive anytime after 6:30 and before 7. Also, it's the day before PJ's bday...