Toni Dove: Spectropia

Spectropia is a live-mix cinema event, a scratchable movie performed by video DJs playing a movie instrument. Toni Dove’s sci-fi hybrid features time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, following the Great Crash. Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through a mix of film, performance, and a system of motion sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument, creating a narrative form that is part video game, part feature film, and part VJ mashing. The audience sees through characters eyes, hears their interior thoughts, and even talks with characters via Dove and her co-performer, R. Luke DuBois in a post show Q&A.

The film's cast features Aleksa Palladino, Carolyn McCormick, Richard Bekins, Simon Jones, Helen Pickett, and Paul Lazar, with an original score composed by Elliott Sharp.

This program is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Toni Dove
Spectropia