A Creature Very Like Us Performance 1999 Cuckoo Film 1999 (duration 11mins)

Igloo previewed their first group live work - A Creature Very Like Us at The Curtain Theatre, Toynbee Studios in London alongside Cuckoo - Igloo's short dance film, the result of a week long residency at Artsadmin. A Creature Very Like Us is a stark and anthemic technoir, made with choreographic principles derived from motion capture and telematic performance. Ruth Gibson and Mark Bruce start their quest to unravel The Toxic Twin. Their duet involves the strange nature of dual identity and features the music of Icelandic band Sigur Ros.

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Cuckoo explores a representation of the body as a mirror image, a reflection, as another. Inspired by perpetual daylight witnessed whilst in Iceland in the summer, the film alters the perception of time. With a haunting Sigur Ros soundtrack the film take viewers on a journey of shifting landscapes made from shimmering bodies.