Flying
Lesson (4 min, 2008, USA)
dir. Andrea Lerner and Rosanne Chamecki
Cinema makes
dancers fly! Poignant and witty, precise and crafted, this charming
duet is exploring Brooklyn one foot above the ground.
Andrea
Lerner and Rosanne Chamecki
are Brazilian-born choreographers who reside in New York.
Silence
of the Machines (9min, 2007, France)
dir. Kostia Testut and Paul Caroli
The workers
at “Fil de Soie, Inc.”? are in shock: the machines
used for manufacturing women’s lingerie have disappeared,
moved to a country where work costs nothing. The workers make
up their minds: they must fight back!
Born in
1978, Paul Caroli graduated with
a degree in film directing form La fémis (France) in
2006. Born in 1980, Kostia Testut
graduated from the same school with a degree in writing. “The
Silence of the Machines” is Paul’s and Kostia’s
first collaboration.
Insyn
(Insight) (15min, 2007, Denmark)
dir. Klara Elenius
"Insyn"
is inspired by the Scandinavian mentality. Between naturalism
and abstraction, at the boundary of dream and reality, the films
sets up atmosphere of tension among three characters somewhere
in the Danish suburb.
Klara
Elinius
is a Swedish choreographer and dancer. She lives in Copenhagen
creating dances for stage and screen.
LILA (13min, 2008, France)
dir. Broadcast Club/ Nicolas Schmerkin
In Hinduism,
Lila is a way of describing all reality, including the cosmos,
as the outcome of creative play by the divine absolute. In Broadcast’s
Club’s film, LILA is a masterfully choreographed journey
through everyday life of humans – powerful and moving
in its simplicity and its intensity.
Formed
in 1984, the Broadcast Club is
a group of French artists with a common passion to watch and
make films.
Aprop
(Closer) (6.5min, 2007, Spain)
dir. Aitor Echeverria
chor. Carolina Alejos
The most
everyday gestures are weaved into an extraordinary dance –
erotic, sensual, and powerful!
Born in
1977, for the last decade Aitor Echeverría
has been working as a cinematographer. APROP is his debut
as a director. Carolina Alejos is a choreographer from Argentina.
Boot
Camp (6min, 1996, USA)
dir. John Scott Mathews
chor. Bill Fabris
An homage
to early Hollywood musicals and the underground films of Kenneth
Anger. There is romance inherent in the courtship of any two
people - no matter who they are.
John
Scott Matthews received his undergraduate
training in theatre. His films have been broadcast throughout
Europe and the USA. A generous career development grant was
awarded to him from The Peter S. Reed Foundation in recognition
of his work bringing music and dance to film.
Since
1987, Bill Fabris
has been director and choreographer for the New York Gilbert
and Sullivan Players. He enjoys a national reputation in the
worlds of opera and musical theatre.
Shake-off
(9min, 2006, Netherlands)
dir./chor. Hans Beenhakker
Dancing is
ultimate ‘living in the present moment’, in which
all becomes one. Dancing shrinks all remaining concerns to small
proportions which can be shaken off like ballast. The film follows
the exceptional dancer (Prince Credell) as he moves magically
through different times and spaces. The athleticism and bold
surprises lure the viewer into a dynamic world - which teeters
between the impossible and the real.
After
having a glorious dance career with many renown choreographers
(including Pina Bausch), Hans Beenhakker
did an extensive film study at the New York Film Academy.
Since then, he started Cinedans festival in Amsterdam, created
several award-winning shorts and has been extensively involved
into choreographing for the screen (www.danshans.com).
Orgesticulanismus
(9min, 2008, Belgium)
dir. Mathieu Labaye
This animated
gem ruminates about movement in every human’s life. It’s
a tribute to the filmmaker’s father, who had been in a
wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life.
I
think that, when moving, you take over your own life. When
you're free to come and go, to have gestures of... love, tenderness,
anger, no matter. So when you are deprived of the ability
to move, as I am, as many others are... in order to survive
you need to reinvent movement. What goes on in my mind is
not just intellectual. It's a way of re-creating an inner
space which sets me free – Benoît Labaye
Born in
1977, Mathieu Labaye received
his degree in Comics and Illustration. Since October 2002,
he works at Camera-etc (ex Caméra Enfants Admis), a
Belgian animation workshop where children, teenagers and adults
come to make their own animation short with the help of professionals.
Muto
(6min, 2008, Italy) – winner of the Clermont-Ferrand Festival
(“Labo” Competition)
dir. Blu
Dancing graffiti
strokes painted on public walls in Baden and Buenos Aires.
Blu
is an Italian graffiti artist, an animator and an illustrator.
His film Muto won awards at 15 festivals (www.blublu.org)
Tout
Morose (Very Cold) (5min, 1997, France)
dir. Olivier Megaton
chor. Dominique Hervieu
Yellow
and blue pencils, matching notes in a notebook, a palette of
animated words, a recipe for a few magnificent moments.
Olivier
Megaton
is a prominent French director. Among his films are The Red
Siren, Trasnporter 3, Angie and many others.
Feist
"1,2,3,4" (3min, 2007, USA)
dir. Patrick Daughters
chor. Noemie Lafrance
One continuous
tracking shot is a space for a wonderfully choreographed music
video to the world-renown song “1,2,3,4” by the
artist Feist. The video was nominated for a Grammy award before
becoming an internet phenomenon and an ad for Apple.
Patrick
Daughters
is a music video and commercial director who directed numerous
music videos for Feist, Beck, Interpol, The Shins, and many
others.
Canadian-born
choreographer, Noemie LaFrance
is notorious for her large scale site-specific work. She is
the founder and artistic director of Sens, a New York-based
non-profit experimental arts organization. Noemie received
2 Bessie Awards for her choreographies. She was part of the
prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial among
many other engagements (www.sensproduction.org).
Heartbeat
(15min, 2004, Sweden)
dir. Martin Lima de Faria and Anette Skahlberg
A classic
musical - filled with great singing and intricate dances. A
political piece that comments on Swedish immigration policies
in a poignant and subtle way. The film received a Cannes International
Showcase Kodak Award 2005.
This married
couple Martin Lima de Faria and Anette
Skahlberg founded their company Stop Film in 1998 and
since then completed many prize-winning shorts and one feature.
