Fallow Table is a playful and surreal short dance film created by Junk Ensemble and Luca Truffarelli. The work examines the idea of self-burial during a fallow period. It is a funeral for the self that ends with a party.
The film phases through a preparation for mourning along the steep steps of Mount Brown, a funeral feast in a Rathmines laneway, and ends with a party in Inchicore railway works with streamers and balloons strewn across the abandoned car park.
The concept grew out of this current time when much of the world is waiting or resting, resembling land that is left fallow - the soil is left to ‘rest’ so that it recovers its fertility. Perhaps through this burial or purge, we will renew ourselves. Fallow Table ends with a funeral party: a celebration, a moving towards hope and the future, and a recognition of the things we have lost along the way.
