zoomwooz in the press, March–October 2013

Between March and October 2013, the tour of zoomwooz drew reviews in Spain, Germany, Poland and Canada. These are a few excerpts from the surviving press cuttings.

Gara

One of those unclassifiable works that open up spaces for reflection and demonstrate the strength and capacity of the performing arts.

— Carlos Gil, «Juegos con historia», Gara, 22 March 2013 · translated from Spanish

Mondaine

Two days after the performance at the Kinoteatr Rialto in Katowice, within the A PART festival, Basia Siemianowska published her review of zoomwooz in this Silesian cultural magazine.

Paradoxically, they are the greatest threat to the world they have made. zoomwooz — to zoom in and to pull away — works like a system that, created by individuals, escapes into the masses. Which part of that multitude is amplified and shown depends on whoever runs the system. They hold the power: the camera and the zoom.

— Basia Siemianowska, «Festiwal A PART: zoomwooz, czyli studium rozmiaru», Mondaine, 27 June 2013 · translated from Polish

Oficina de Ideas Libres

It is an intelligent, well-made performance that is well worth seeing. But it has to be seen live.

— Hilario Álvarez, «Zoomwooz lo hacen muy bien», Oficina de Ideas Libres, 2 August 2013 · translated from Spanish

Ramuntcho Robles Quevedo

The art critic Ramuntcho Robles Quevedo wrote on his blog about the performance at the Off Limits gallery in Madrid on 1 August 2013, under the title «zoomwooz versus an ideal world».

Karla and Andrés seduce the spectators with their wonderful visual performance. […] One returns with joy to the scenic arts, the aesthetic innovation, one regains the love for the magic in a live show. With very simple elements, interconnected amongst them, with lots of love toward beauty and the human being, mother nature and the imagination that unites all.

— Ramuntcho Robles Quevedo, on his blog, 15 August 2013 · the author's own translation

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The live-cinema performance zoomwooz is wonderfully childlike, naïve, playful, intelligent and poetic.

— Petra Hallmayer, «Quatsch & Poesie», Süddeutsche Zeitung, 14 September 2013 · translated from German

Abendzeitung München

Karla Kracht and Andrés Beladiez pack a great deal of intelligence, spirit and love of detail into their live-cinema performance zoomwooz.

— Gabriella Lorenz, «Kartons, Cartoons, Papierfiguren, gefilmt mit dunklem Witz», Abendzeitung München, 14 September 2013 · translated from German

Convergence

A multimedia show that brings together music, projection, video, drawing and animation, and that reflects on society and the various systems that make it up, not without a certain black humour.

— Yves Tremblay, «"Zoomwooz", l'humour noir d'une société de carton», Convergence / Le Lien MULTIMÉDIA, Montreal, 18 October 2013 · translated from French

Agolpedeefecto

In October 2013 zoomwooz was seen at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, in the first edition of the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro. Estrella Savirón reviewed it in the digital magazine Agolpedeefecto.

Emotions conveyed through light and shadow, a cold universe that leaves little room for individualism as a way out. […] A production that, through the techniques of live cinema, turns out to be surprising, striking, original and at the same time unsettling and thought-provoking. A real surprise.

— Estrella Savirón, in Agolpedeefecto, October 2013 · translated from Spanish