Laocoön with Cabiria at 9 premiered at REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival in January 2021.

Official Selection, London International Web and Shorts Film Festival, 2021.

Maria Garcia’s Laocoön with Cabiria at 9 is a one-woman show led by Vatican Museums tour guide Cabiria, who in a nightmare, is confronted with a Trojan Soldier sharing her reflection. Brought to life by choreographer and performer Samantha Mohr, Cabiria’s obsession with the story of the Trojan Horse and the priest Laocoön sends her on a liminal journey of humiliation, pain, banishment, death, and love. Stuck between history and myth, Cabiria’s investigation of the Trojan war explores the designation of “foreign” bodies as dangerous, devious, and in need of discipline.

Director, Writer, Designer, Creator: Maria Garcia

Choreographer, Perfomer, Deviser: Samantha Mohr

Cinematographer: Wesley Cardino

Sounds:

Waltz by: Grace Freeman

Dance Track by: Wesley Cardino