Le Faune
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France | Joseph Simon | 2018 | 9'37
Le Faune is a fantasy-world on film, based on the ballet L’après-midi d’un Faune by Vaslav Nijinsky. In this ballet, that was produced in 1912, Nijinsky took a new direction and broke with the usual, flowy dance-code in ballet. His original style, rectangular and with slightly sexually tinted movements caused a commotion amongst the audience and press. In his film Le Faune, just like Nijinsky, Joseph Simon incorporates foreign influences to the code of ballet to come to new kinds of expression. With this he creates an enchanting dance-film about voyeurism, intimacy and sexuality. |
Producer: Dansateliers Rotterdam
Director: Joseph Simon Videographer: Joseph Simon Choreographer: Joseph Simon Performer: Daniel Barkan, Madelyn Bullard, Viviana Fabiano, Lucia Fernandez |
In Search Of Lost Time
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U.S.A. | Marta Renzi | 2017 | 8'44
A man and a woman inhabit the same surreal location though not, apparently, at the same time. Marta Renzi directs this black-and-white meditation on memory and absence, joined by long-time collaborator Charles Caster-Dudzick (camera), as well as Aislinn MacMaster & David Thomson (performers). With a nod to the sound score for Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and the location of La Chambre by Joelle Bouvier and Regis Obadia. |
Producer: Wooden Toy Productions
Director: Marta Renzi Videographer: Charles Caster-Dudzic Choreographer: Marta Renzi Performer: Aislinn MacMaster & David Thomson |
BOOKANIMA: Dance
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South Korea | Shon Kim | 2018 | 7'31
BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation to give book new cinematic life. It aims ‘Watching Book’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema through Locomotion based on Chronophotography. It is the second chapter to create experimental locomotion of dance along with the stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance. |
Producer: SHONKIM Studio
Director: SHON KIM Videographer: SHON KIM Choreographer: SHON KIM |
LADIA
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Spain, Slovakia | Alvaro Congosto & Sandra Kramerová | 2018 | 6'45
Ladia is an experimental dance film where pain, exhaustion and will power become a virtual solo fight. Ladia explores boundaries, fragile line between the allowed and forbidden, the physically possible and anatomically impossible, the socially expected yet internally unwanted. It portrays an intimate fight against impositions, power control and restriction of freedom. Ladia as a boxer, as an immigrant and as Olympic gymnast fights through athletic accomplishments and failures in a repeated cycle of exhaustion and revival. Inspired by female ¨superheroes¨ (La)ra Croft and Na(dia) Comaneci, Ladia is a woman who dedicates all her effort to win the game, where the only game is to win over herself. |
Producer: Álvaro Congosto, Sandra Kramerova
Director: Álvaro Congosto Videographer: Jim Dandee Choreographer: Sandra Kramerova Performer: Sandra Kramerova |
If Falling
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China | Yuan Yi, Yang Zhong Yan | 2017 | 2'20
To fall from reality into nature is to complete a natural journey in a dream? Or thinking about the true meaning of life?-- "If falling" tells us that we will eventually return to the earth and turn into nature from the perspective of feminism, and return to the original sincerity and chaos of human beings that dancing in the nature. |
Producer: Yuan Yi, Yang ZhongYan
Director: Yuan Yi, Yang ZhongYan |
Artery
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Macau | Lao Lai Fong ( Ivonne Lao) | 2018 | 5'14
A way that carries oneself high in a space and away from the main to the farthest reaches of the body. |
Producer: Stella Ho
Director: Lao Lai Fong ( Ivonne Lao) Videographer: Lao Lai Fong ( Ivonne Lao) Choreographer: Alberto Garcia, Leong Sok I (Crystal Leong) Performer: Alberto Garcia |
Someone was Here 這裡有人
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Macau | Jenny Mok, Penny Lam | 2018 | 4'
We walk on a flat concrete road, pass through buildings after buildings. At the entrance, when we step onto the platform, and walk into the elevator, we are transported to the top of the tall building, overlooking the beautiful city view. We all like to enjoy the beautiful exterior wall of civilization. Who wants to see the underground steel wire and water pipes that are buried behind the civilization? A superior city always has an inferior existence. Inferior that comes from migration? From the accent? From identity? From the class? From the line? What do you want to see from the mud bricks in the slab? |
Producer: Jojo Lam
Director: Jenny Mok, Penny Lam Videographer: Penny Lam Choreographer: Jenny Mok Performer: Jenny Mok |
Border 垠
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Macau | André Braga, Stella Ho | 2018 | 2'51
There is a border within the place where we live. Over the border, is it where our culture originated? Or is it just a strange place for us? |
Producer: Stella Ho
Director: André Braga Videographer: HO MAN U Choreographer: André Braga Performer: LOU CHOI IENG |
Underbridge
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France | Florent Schwartz | 2016 | 3'13
Underbridge is a single sequence shot that consists in a complete and precise choreography of the all dancers, camera and light operators. The action is a continuous night flight from an unknown beginning, in which the characters, facing the same situation, bump against a vertical architecture made of concrete. On a social perspective related to mass urbanization, we could say that the action is an escape from freedom into the walls (Presented by Taipei Performing Arts Center). |
Producer: Taipei Performing Arts Center
Director: Florent SCHWARTZ Videographer: Florent SCHWARTZ Choreographer: Florent SCHWARTZ Performer: Liu Chun-Liang / Chung Chih-Wen / Chen Yi-Ching |
In the House of Mantegna
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Italy | Michele Manzini | 2017 | 6'39
In her Notebooks, Simone Weil wrote that “Each true statement is an error if its opposite is not thought of at the same time, and it cannot be thought of at the same time”. The mediation of contradictions is only an altered image of the irreconcilable polarities that, instead, make up reality. But thinking about the unthinkable leads us to a place that reason has never managed to penetrate. To be exact, it leads us to atopy, to “that absence of a place” that offers us a different measurement of the world. Like an underground river, the line of belligerence crosses the whole of Western thought. This is because the thing itself is fundamentally polemical, as well as the truth that is referred to: the conflict existed before the participators in it. |
Producer: Michele Manzini
Director: Michele Manzini Videographer: Valeria Lo Meo Choreographer: Michele Manzini & Barbara Canal Performer: Barbara Canal |
VANITAS
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Brasil | Vinícius Cardoso | 2017 | 5'50
A latin noun means "emptiness" and "vanity." And it also refers to the "vanitas" paintings of the Middle Ages. A type of symbolic work of art from northern Europe and the Netherlands, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which seem like a morbid artifact, but act as a reminder of the ephemerality of life. Memento mori, or "remember death." A poignant message from Art comes to this film. Because today we do not share pains and failures. And so vanity is the price to be paid. Such a move made vanity a virtue, no longer the capital sin of pride. Bringing among its characteristics immortality. We are the civilization that put death aside. Therefore, the idea of this work is to exhort the spectator to consider mortality. Pondering about death is, paradoxically, pondering about life and temptations. |
Producer: Vinícius Cardoso
Director: Vinícius Cardoso Videographer: Diogo Martins Choreographer: Samuel Kavalerski Performer: Vera Valdez and Irupé Sarmiento |
LINES
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India | Nikita Maheshwary | 2016 | 1'45
The short film delves into the multi-pronged issue of drug abuse in Punjab. The border state of India, each year Punjab gets drugs worth billions of dollars from the neighboring countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The land is besieged with social, political, geographical & emotional recuperation of the drug trafficking and increasing youth addiction. LINES is a part of SitaaurGita, an ongoing movement based video series on sociopolitical factors of India. |
Producer: Nikita Maheshwary
Director: Nikita Maheshwary Videographer: Jeetin Sharma Choreographer: Nikita Maheshwary Performer: Sanchita Sharma, Nikita Maheshwary |
Humana
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Chile | Paulina Rutman | 2018 | 5'25
Humana is a dance film that imitates the body language of spiders and explores the idea of film editing as a primary tool for the choreography. Juggling with the numbers “4” and “2”, the result is 16 frames where the possibilities of the choreographic composition are explored. 42 or 24 This mathematical game amplifies possibilities, creating unlimited dancers, movements, effects and times. |
Producer: Paulina Rutman
Director: Paulina Rutman Videographer: Daniel Ruby Editor: Paulina Rutman Choreographer: Paulina Rutman Performer: Natalia Garcia |