CICADA

Cicada explores transformation through a visual, auditory, and emotional journey which turns a garment into a character, a character into a creature, and captured sounds into an auditory experience.

Cicada takes the viewer from the sensual to the meditative. Distorting time, space and sound, the collaborative team worked together to upend our sense of gravity and aural logic with the performance, sounds of nature, and filmic techniques.

Director Biography - Julia Wilkins, Ramzy Telley

This is the second project for Directors Telley and Wilkins. Their collaboration is born of a shared passion for lyricism, and rich imagery.

Ramzy's film work has been broadcast internationally and screened at notable museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China and the Unesco Art Gallery, Paris, France. In 2000 Ramzy was cinematographer & co-producer of Academy Award nominated film “The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo” and his film "Death In Vegas" was awarded the Grand Remi "Best of Show" at the 2007 Houston International Film Festival.  In addition to film work, Ramzy has also produced performance art for the Houston based art troupe Rubber: An Art Mob such as indoor bloodless bullfighting and creates multi-channel video installations as well as sculpture and digital printmaking. Ramzy Telley graduated from the CalArts experimental film program and is currently teaching film at Pratt Institute in NYC.Wilkins creates film and interdisciplinary art installations. A background in dance, performance art, fiber art, and sculpture informs immersive environments, in which the audience can journey with the art.

Wilkins’ work in situ has been witnessed in residencies and exhibitions around the world, and her films shown at festivals and as part of a larger work. She loves to utilize concepts in layers of multiple media, and numerous iterations that develop over years. She has worked as a hand-knitter in design and sold individual one-of-a-kind creations.

Her early years included an impressive performative career with national and international touring, after graduating from Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dance in 1997.