Kitchen Alba
Kitchen Alba is a reimagining of the staged work, Alba, for a domestic kitchen.
This new film version, Kitchen Alba, made in 2021 amidst a world ‘working from home’ places the miraculous in the most mundane of domestic spaces, blurring the border between the ordinary and the sublime.
Riffing on religious iconography, white goods, family and faith, Kitchen Alba prompts us to look anew at our most ordinary and homely of spaces and to find meaning, miracle and mystery wedged between the cookery books and the stack of dirty dishes.
“Bannon’s hair shimmers like a beacon in the darkness as she leads us on a quiet, reflective and wry journey excavating her own history and reminding us that there are many ways of seeing: ourselves and others.”
Screenings
WOW Istanbul, Digital Festival
Sydney Opera House, Digital Festival
Mayfest 2022, Cinema Screening
Reviews (on Alba)
The Stage - Edinburgh Festival
Read an interview with Jo for RealTime Arts Magazine here
Credits
Directed and Performed by Jo Bannon
Produced by MAYK
Film Maker – John Stephenson
Cinematographer - Jack Offord
Sound Recordist - Caroline Heatlie
Sound Design - Yas Clarke
Sound Mixer - Alan Deacon
Commissioned by British Council #WomenPowerinCulture for WOW Istanbul
The staged version of Alba was originally commissioned by In Between Time with Ovalhouse & Pink Fringe. Funded by Arts Council England
Coventry Carol by Coventry Cathedral Choir & St Michaels Singers. Used with permission courtesy Classic Fox Records. For use other than the Women of the World Festival Istanbul 2021, please contact info@foxrecords.co.uk for permissions.