Students in the Fall 2023 Cinematography and Sound Design course, taught by media and cinema studies lecturer Victor Font, produced a film special of Cetacean, which aired on WILL-TV’s Prairie Fire on April 18.

The one-hour episode includes interviews with Cetacean creators, Deke Weaver and Jennifer Allen, and excerpts from last fall’s live multimedia performance, which was made possible by a collaboration with the students.

Part social practice, part visual art installation, part live event, Cetacean’s three years of research, rehearsal, and planning became a live public performance—a two- and-a-half-hour long living collage of story, dance, sound, video, lo-fi effects, and a colossal installation. 

Cetacean was the sixth interdisciplinary performance from “The Unreliable Bestiary”—a lifelong project presenting a performance for every letter of the alphabet, each letter representing an endangered animal or habitat.

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