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Synopsis ? Love, jealousy and wanting to be in two places at once Like a nighthawk at the diner, a young man recounts his story of love gone wrong. His marriage has been quietly growing lifeless, when his wife proposes that they attempt to rekindle their passion through, the dance which first brought them together, the tango. But not any old tango, rather a more risqué partner swapping form of the dance, with different partners in separate venues.

Gregg Smith: biography Gregg Smith is an artist from Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in 1991 and since then has been active in a range of contemporary art and theatre projects in South Africa and abroad. With origins in painting, performance, and art in public space, his present work incorporates aspects of all these practices in the development of video installations. Until 2000, he lived in Cape Town, where he was active as an artist and also a professor of painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. In 2001-02, Gregg was a participant at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, and following this moved to France where he studied film-making at Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains (2002-04). His work is equally accepted in contemporary art and film festival circuits; recent projects have been shown at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Le Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), La Biennale de Dakar (Senegal) and Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna, Austria). He is at present based in Paris, France and is a professor in the Master of Arts in public sphere program (MAPS) at ECAV.