Binary Star excerpts are live on the instagram

Still from Binary Star, photography by Burak Çevik

Old news but still good news: a quartet of excerpts from Binary Star, the film written and directed by José and produced by Playwrights Theatre Centre and Applied Silence, are available for viewing on Instagram. (They went live in, ahem, December.) You can find them here, here, here, and here. Each features notes on land and architecture exclusive to these Instagram posts. Binary Star is a sister project to José’s play of the same name, which he’s developing over a three-year period as part of PTC’s Associates program.

Part travelogue, part essay on time and architecture, part long-term love story, Binary Star is at once a deeply personal work and a unique collaboration between artists of varied disciplines working in locations all over the world.

Weaving through motifs of wilderness and architecture, stillness and movement, time and geography, solitude and intimacy, the voices of two long-separated lovers relay in tandem with the music of Stephen Lyons (Fond of Tigers) and a visual catalogue of places visited, captured by a dozen cinematographers—among them visual artists such as Laura Barrón and Jorge Lozano, and filmmakers such as Burak Çevik (Belonging), Anna Maguire (Constellations), Alejandro Coronado (frequent collaborator of Nicolás Pereda and Lina Rodriguez), and legendary Swiss-Canadian documentarian Peter Mettler (Picture of Light)—filming in as many countries.

More news, along with an entry on the Projects page, are soon to come as screenings of Binary Star are announced. Some of these screenings will take an unusual form…