What is Circus? (5:35)

Posted on: 8 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

  What is Circus? is the first film in the series.

On the border between theatre and dance, between tradition and… Read more

Cantina (9:02)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

A twist on the 1930’s wrings out the darker passions and tensions that lie within that era’s entertainment.

Australian production  Cantina takes the gaily enjoyable… Read more

Circus in the Medina (12:27)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Everyone in the Medina knows the  Hammich family. From the oldest grandfather to the youngest granddaughter, the Hammichs are famous acrobats, trained from… Read more

Piccadilly Circus Circus (10:08)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Appearing unannounced in the centre of London on 2nd September 2012,  Piccadilly Circus Circus was a one-day event that saw more than two… Read more

Epicycle (3:16)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

 Epicycle, a vast, dirty ring of steel studded with valve wheels and junk controls along its edge, is the work of the French… Read more

Place des Anges (9:01)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

On 2nd September 2012, French company Les Studios de Cirque invaded Piccadilly Circus to perform an extraordinary aerial spectacle after sunset.

 Place des Anges closed Piccadilly… Read more

Petit Petit Mal (3:27)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Featuring hyper-aggressive Chinese pole, rough and tumble fights on the ground and in the air, Swiss ball trampoline, resplendent golden trousers, improvised teeterboard, and even a small but gratifying amount of nudity,… Read more

Manifestly Phia (13:49)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

The transgender artist and juggler  Phia Ménard talks about the meaning of transformation and erosion in her work, about piecing together the puzzle of… Read more

Flying High (2:28)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Going by the numbers,  Bristol is our circus city: you’ll find more circus artists there, relative to population, than in any other UK… Read more

Petit Mal (9:50)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Combining the skills of a breakdancer, a cage fighter, and an ex-gymnast (and chef), Race Horse Company attack circus with a sullen punk-rock attitude.

Their show Read more

Undisclosed (4:11)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

Photographer Bertil Nilsson talks about his book  Undisclosed, a collection of black and white stills of circus artists pictured naked as they work… Read more

Smashed (4:24)

Posted on: 7 Oct 2014

Circus Post is a series of short films made by Crying Out Loud and film-maker Deborah May contextualising the development of contemporary circus over the past 40 years.

They’d already created work inspired by Merce Cunningham, Mozart, Steve Reich and Jean-Paul Sartre when, a year after the death of the great choreographer Pina Bausch, Gandini Juggling made Read more