Creative Polymath: Litza Bixler is a filmmaker, choreographer, artistic director and screenwriter who has produced work on stage, screen, mountains and galleries.
Film Career: As a film movement specialist, Litza has created movement and action for iconic films and TV, like “Shaun of the Dead”, “Peaky Blinders”, “The World’s End” and “Scott Pilgrim vs The World”. She has also choreographed a musical film, a musical series for Disney, and produced a stand-out dance fight for the salsa dance movie “Cuban Fury”.
Awards: Litza has collaborated on multiple award-winning films, commercials and music videos. As a screen writer, she was recently awarded an I.S.A. fellowship for her screenplay “The City of Clouds”. This screenplay was also a quarter-finalist in the Screen Craft Animation competition, and her screenplays “Blood, Water, Dust” and “Safety in Numbers” have been shortlisted in multiple competitions including Blue Cat, Screen Craft, Nashville, Capital Films Hot 100 and ISA Table-Read London.
Themes: Litza creates absurd, darkly comic worlds populated by fairies, fallen angels, cowgirls, lonely aliens, talking birds, witches and water-sucking monsters. Her work is embodied and visceral and set in visually evocative spaces; from desolate landscapes and crumbling rooms, to musical alternate realities, sinking ships and flying cities. In these worlds, her characters transform and move; they travel through wormholes, they fly and they fall, they drown in oceans and they disintegrate into dust.
Litza is a dual national and often explores liminal spaces, thresholds and metaphorical journeys in her work. She has traveled extensively and has lived in Mexico, London, Sheffield, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Colorado. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, USA.
IG: @litzabixler
Host: Jamie Neale @jamienealejn Discussing rituals and habitual patterns in personal and work life. We ask questions about how to become more aware of one self and the world around us, how do we become 360 with ourselves?
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Produced by Tom Dalby
Composed by Toby Wright