This video is a one-shot rehearsal film shot in a dance studio in Manhattan.
Directed and written by Yasmine Laraqui, filmed by Chloé Yintzu, with Yuko Torihara, Bix Krieger, and Gil Gilead.

The piece was conceived as a continuous take in which the actors interlace, interrupt one another, collide, disappear and re-enter the frame. There is no reset, no correction, no coverage. All camera flaws, hesitations, misframings, and accidents are deliberately kept.

The work borrows loosely from the Dogme 95 idea of constraint, but pushes it toward an absurd extreme: the refusal of polish becomes total, bordering on dysfunction. The rehearsal space is not transformed or aestheticized; it remains what it is — a neutral, temporary, utilitarian room.
The text and interactions revolve around mediocrity, repetition, exhaustion, and the emptiness of art produced for its own sake. Speech overlaps, breaks down, contradicts itself. Authority circulates without settling. Meaning is constantly attempted and immediately undermined.

Rather than performance, the piece stages friction: between bodies, language, intention,and the camera itself. The result is not a finished film but a visible failure of structure — a rehearsal that never resolves, a gesture that insists on continuing even after its usefulness is questioned.