A very very widescreen film
After all, things will never be the same again, so let’s make history.
On a not particularly special day,
in a not particularly special place
Gob Squad will save the world before it ends.
From sunrise to sunset,
they will try to get everything they can
onto a very very wide screen film.
It’s a Noah´s Ark for the 21st Century.
In Saving The World, Gob Squad squeeze the world into a handful of videotapes. Produced in 24 hours, a seven camera panoramic film portrays one place of a city as a microcosm of the entire world. The mission is nothing less than to save the planet and preserve it for an unknown future. Starting with ‘saving’ sunrise, Gob Squad soon move on to ‘saving’ the essentials of life on earth such as money, freedom, ice cream and love.
The results of Gob Squad’s adventures are screened in a specially constructed “all round cinema”. Often surprisingly simple, sometimes visually spectacualar and sometimes completely messy, Gob Squad’s journey through a not particularly historical day in a not particularly historical place is a lyrical declaration of love to the ordinary people of today.
First performance: June 12th 2008 (Kampnagel Hamburg)
Awarded with the Goethe-Institut prize at Impulse Festival 2009
Past Dates:
June 2014
Basel, Switzerland,
Kaserne
September 2011
Den Haag, The Netherlands,
Today's Art
July 2011
Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany,
Centro Oberhausen (Ringlokschuppen)
June 2011
Basel, Switzerland,
Claraplatz (Kaserne)
March 2011
Cologne, Germany,
Schauspiel Köln
November 2010
Berlin, Germany,
Breitscheidplatz (HAU ZWEI)
November 2009
Cologne, Germany,
Rudolfplatz (Impulse Festival)
May 2009
Vienna, Austria,
Schwedenplatz (brut)
April 2009
London, UK,
Southbank (SPILL Festival)
October 2008
Berlin, Germany,
Mehringplatz (HAU ZWEI)
September 2008
Mannheim, Germany,
Paradeplatz (Wunder der Prärie Festival)
June 2008
Hamburg, Germany,
Mönckeberger/ Spitalerstraße (Kampnagel)
Concept Gob Squad
Devised by Martin Clausen, Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost, Simon Will
Performed by four of the above
Video Miles Chalcraft, Martin Cooper
Sound-Design Sebastian Bark, Jeff McGrory
Costume and props Emma Cattell, Kerstin Honeit
Technical Management Torsten Döring, Susanne Keeves
Dramaturgy and Production Christina Runge
Artistic assitants Sophia Simitzis (Milena Kipfmüller, Hilde Tuinstra)
Interns Lina Hermsdorf, Brina Stinehelfer, Hilde Tuinstra
PR The Corner Shop PR
(for press requests please contact info@gobsquad.com)
With thanks to Chris Kondek
World premiere 12th June 2008
Kampnagel, Hamburg
Saving The World is a Gob Squad production coproduced by Hebbel
am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, zeitraumexit e.V. Mannheim
and the Wiener Festwochen.
Funded by: The Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin –
Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten and the Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg