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VIDEOFLASH: Basil Twist and Joey Arias in Arias with A Twist: The Docufantasy, Premiering at Berlin Film Festival

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Bobby Sheehan’s Arias with A Twist: The Docufantasy will have its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, according to a report on Basil Twist’s website. The film will be screened on February 13, 17, and 18.

In addition to profiling Twist and collaborator Joey Arias, the movie explores the history, process and the need to create as the two come together to create and then perform Arias With A Twist, which world premiered at HERE Arts Center in 2008.

In addition to Twist’s puppet creations, the production featured wardrobe by Thierry Mughler, musical arrangements and production by Eliot Douglas and Jean-Francois Houle, sound design by Greg Duffin, lighting design by Andrew Hill, video design by Daniel Brodie, and original songs by Alex Gifford of “The Propeller Heads.”

For further information, visit: www.berlinale.de.

Here is a clip from the documentary (courtesy of Working Pictures):


Joe Arias in “Arias With a Twist” on Vimeo.