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Craig Quintero - Riverbed Theatre Company
Riverbed Theatre was founded in 1998 in Taipei, Taiwan. The company’s image-based, Total Theatre productions blur the boundaries between visual and performing arts. Critics have praised the organic, sculptural quality of Riverbed’s “subconscious” theatre, likening the performances to the best works of Samuel Beckett and David Lynch.
Director Craig Quintero:
Craig is the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company. He has staged fifty performances and exhibited projects at the Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Shanghai MOCA. His VR experience, All That Remains, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and won Best Immersive Experience at the Luxembourg Film Festival and Best 360VR Experience at the Kaohsiung Film Festival. His second experience, Over the Rainbow, was included in the “Best of” section at Venice in 2023 and won the Panorama Prize at the Festival de Nouveau Cinema. Craig is a Professor in the Department of Theatre at Grinnell College.
Filmography
All That Remains (BEST IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AWARD of Luxembourg City Film Festival)
Over The Rainbow
A Simple Silence
Artwork
A Simple Silence
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“A Simple Silence” Wraps Up Craig Quintero’s Trilogy Exploring Spatial Transformations & Immersive Encounters.
It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found.
A Simple Silence is the final chapter in Riverbed Theatre’s award-winning “Just For You” Trilogy that premiered in Venice in 2022 with All That Remains and continued in 2023 with Over the Rainbow. This new 360VR experience continues the series’ exploration of our connectedness to the world around us, imbuing the environment with an animistic quality while also blurring the boundary between seeing and being seen. The audience is not a witness to the experience; they are the experience. A Simple Silence confronts us with the uneasiness of our inevitable truths, that every beginning implies an ending, that we are shadows passing through the darkness.
