Krsn Brasko, Corey Scott-Gilbert

STAGED

26.11.-29.11.2025

First screening: 26.11.2025, 6-8pm

Filmstill, STAGED, 2025

 

We are excited to invite you to the film screening of STAGED by
vAL | Corey Scott-Gilbert & Krsn Brasko
on Wednesday, 26 November 2025 from 6 – 8 pm at EIGEN + ART Lab!

The film will be on view until 29 November during our usual opening hours.

 

What happens to a body that only knows the sound of waiting? What does it mean to haunt a silence?

STAGED is a short film by vAL featuring Roderick George and Corey Scott-Gilbert in an endless loop of false starts where two nihilistic characters rally through self-reflection to interrogate their roles inside of a theatrical conundrum. In this virtual commission from Baryshnikov Arts, STAGED employs the theater itself as a reflective pool, mirroring life’s absurdities in search of a glint of horizon. Accompanied by the voice of Gus Solomons, Jr., STAGED unpacks a world of exuberant exile where rules are meant to be broken and caricatures confronted.

Perhaps hope is only elsewhere; perhaps elsewhere is already here…

Direction: vAL
Co-film direction: Krsn Brasko
Performance: Roderick George & Corey Scott-Gilbert
Voice: Gus Solomons, Jr.
Direction of photography: Uri Ackerman
2nd unit of photography: Josh Mayes
Wardrobe: Taz Loft
Sound design: Friedrich Brückner
Music & additional sound design: Joshua Eustis
Vocal manipulation: Sebastian Szary
Vocal recording: Andrew Fox
Edit & post production & direction of sound: Krsn Brasko
Concept & script: vAL

Special thanks to Valerie Scott-Dishroom Tobias Ebling Ariel Freedman

This is a commission for Baryshnikov Arts in collaboration with The Jerome Robbins Theater.

In living memory of Gus Solomons, Jr.