My Cake
While having his portrait painted, a young child discovers the image others have of him does not match the one he has of himself.
My Cake is a musical and satirical response to the proverb “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. It evokes themes such as ambition, identity, society’s pressure to conform and the obsession to control one’s image. Written as a mise-en-abyme, the viewer never knows where reality lies.
Blooom Award by Warsteiner (Germany, 2015) — Nominated
Prix Videoformes, Festival Videoformes (France, 2015) — Nominated
Prix Eurovideo, Eurovideo Festival (Belgium, 2015) — Nominated
People’s Choice Award, International Portuguese Music Awards (USA, 2015) — Nominated
30th Festival International d’Arts Numériques Videoformes, Maison de la Culture — Clermont-Ferrand (March 2015, France)
Eurovideo Festival, Mons European Capital of Culture, Théâtre de Liège — Liège (March 2015, Belgium)
Eurovideo Festival, Centro Cultural Tabakalera — Donostia San Sebastian (March 2015, Spain)
Eurovideo Festival, Galerie Duplex 100m2 — Sarajevo (March 2015, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Eurovideo Festival, Youth Cultural Center (MKC) — Skopje (March 2015, Republic of Macedonia)
Eurovideo Festival, Café Europa — Kaliningrad (March 2015, Russia)
Eurovideo Festival, Café Europa — Maubeuge (March 2015, France)
The Mechanical Turk, Espace Culturel Fernand Pouillon — Marseille (May 2015, France)
New Additions Series, VIVO Media Arts Centre — Vancouver (August 2015, Canada)
Triton d’Or, Espace Ségur — Paris (October 2015, France)
Gender Reel Festival, The Joslyn Art Museum — Omaha (October 2015, USA)
Gender Reel Festival, Trylon Microcinema — Minneapolis (October 2015, USA)
Gender Reel Festival, Rice Media Center, Frenetic Theatre — Houston, Texas (November 2015, USA)
Transformation #156, Spektrum — Berlin (May 2016, Germany)
15th Transgender Film Festival, Roxie Theater — San Francisco (November 2016, USA)
10th Translations Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum — Seattle (May 2017, USA)
Performed by Nuno Roque — Directed by Jethro Massey and Nuno Roque — Artistic Collaborator Gaudi Kaiser — Edited by Jethro Massey — Assistant Producer Perle Tharinger, Magdalena Petrovich — Assistant Director Faith Anne Gosselin — Colour Grading Gaudi Kaiser — Make-up Lexi de Rock — Wardrobe and Styling Nuno Roque, Gaudi Kaiser — Playback Sylvie Boutet — Sculpture Nuno Roque, Arthur Lamon — Words and Music by Nuno Roque — Arrangements & Mixing by Subvibes — Recorded in Basel, Switzerland. — Filmed in Paris, France.
Type
Film
Video
Genre
Art — Musical
Director
Jethro Massey
Nuno Roque
Production
La Mafia Dell’Arte
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Type
Film
Video
Genre
Art — Musical
Director
Jethro Massey
Nuno Roque
Production
La Mafia Dell’Arte
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Type
Film
Video
Genre
Art — Musical
Director
Jethro Massey
Nuno Roque
Production
La Mafia Dell’Arte
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Photography : M. Katser / J. Massey / La Mafia Dell’Arte.
Photography : M. Katser / J. Massey / La Mafia Dell’Arte.