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Dance Film Competition
Closing Program
Festival
Opening Program: A preview of shorts from the
festival programs
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 19:00, St. Petersburg
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Burst
5min, 2003, Iceland
Director: Reynir Lyngdal
Choreographer: Katrin Hall
Photo
by Reynir
Lyngdal
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A couple
fights in their bedroom over a burst water pipe. Techniques
involving water tank explosions and trampolines. References:
martial arts and cartoon strips.
Born in 1976, Reynir Lyngdal
has directed several short films, commercials
and music videos. He co-directed and produced the award winning
dance film SLURP-INN (1997). He is currently working for Pegasus
Pictures.
Born 1964, Katrin Hall
studied at the National Theatre Ballet School of Iceland.
She has been the Artistic Director of the Iceland Dance Company
since 1996.
When
Dancers Go Bowling 17
min, 2000, USA
Director: Michael DeMirjian
Choreographer: Amanda Rabin
Photo by Steve
Andrich |
Eight despondent
dancers converge on a bowling alley and have their way with
the facility. A deadpan 1961 bowling instruction record placidly
narrates the wryly humorous ruckus. Michael
DeMirjian, an Emmy Award winning editor turned
director for this debut, provides the concept, rhythmic cutting
and dry wit. Amanda Rabin,
a Volinine Award winner and accomplished choreographer of stage
and film, turns the entire bowling alley into a unique performance
space. And Emmy Award winning Director of Photography
Steve Andrich, one of the United States'
premiere sports cinematographers, displays his mastery in capturing
movement on-the-fly and understated lighting. (http://constellation-change.co.uk/pages/festival_films/bowlingfilm.htm)
Rosa
15min, 1992 (Belgium/UK)
Director: Peter
Greenway
Choreographer: Anna Teresa De
Keersmaeker
Woman and
a man, a grande mansion, elegance mixed with oppresive decor...
Peter
Greenaway is well-known in to
Russian audiences for his films The
Draughtsman's Contact in 1982, A Zed & Two Noughts
in 1985, The Belly of an Architect in 1987, Drowning
by Numbers in 1988, his most successful (in the mainstream)
film in 1989, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her
Lover, Prospero's Books in 1991, the controversial The
Baby of Mâcon in 1993, The Pillow Book
in 1996, and 8 1/2 Women in 1999.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, one of the most prominent
modern European choreographers studied at MUDRA in Brussels,
the school linked to La Monnaie and to Maurice Béjart's
Ballet of the XXth Century, and then at the Tisch School of
the Arts in New York. On her return from the States, she founded
her company Rosas and created Rosas danst Rosas – the
creation that brought Rosas an international recognition.
Together with Rosas and Brussels' Royal Opera De Munt/La Monnaie,
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has launched a new international
school for contemporary dance, where sixty students coming
from some 25 countries are trained, over a three-year period,
by more than 50 teachers. http://www.rosas.be/
Bog
(The God) 4.5min, 3D computer animation, 2003 (Russia)
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
A humorous
animated short about Shiva's encounter with a fly. "Sometimes
the Gods can be vulnerable." - Moscow Film Festival
Konstantin
Bronzit
is an internationally acclaimed animator and cartoonist. He
graduated from art school in 1983 and from the Department
of Industrial Design at the School of Art and Design in 1992.
During his studies, Konstantin also worked as an animator
at the Studio of Popular Science Films. It was at this studio
where Bronzit made his first film "The Round About"
in 1988. In 1988, Konstantin began actively drawing cartoons
for magazines and newspapers. By 1994, he had participated
in numerous international cartoon competitions winning more
than twenty different awards for his cartoons. From 1993 until
1995, Konstantin worked as a scriptwriter, director and animator
for several films for the Moscow animation studio "PILOT".
In 1994, he graduated from higher courses in scriptwriting
and directing with Fjodor Khitruk in Moscow. Bronzit's short
animated films, including "Switchcraft", "Pacifier",
"Knock Knock", "Die Hard", and "At
The Ends of the Earth" have received more than 45 prizes
and awards from festivals throughout the world including the
grand prizes at ANNECY'95 and ANNECY'98.
Cost
of Living
34 min, 35mm on video, 2004, England
Director: Lloyd Newson
Choreographer: Lloyd
Newson and DV8
Photo by Lloyd
Newson |
David and
Eddie are street performers struggling to get by in a seaside
town. The Cost of Living
follows them as they work, argue, fail at romance and
fall out with old friends. The Cost of Living is part
dance film, part drama. The stories are told through a combination
of stylized movement and dialogue.
The Cost of Living is the fourth film of the DV8 Physical
Theatre (http://www.dv8.co.uk/).
DV8's work is
about taking risks, both physically and aesthetically, dealing
with personal politics and, above all, communicating ideas and
feelings clearly and unpretentiously. It is determined to be
radical yet accessible, and to take its work to as wide an audience
as possible.
As the
Artistic Director of DV8 Physical Theatre since 1986, and
DV8 Films since 1989, Lloyd
Newson has had a dynamic impact on contemporary
dance by challenging the traditional aesthetics and forms
that pervade most modern and classical dance. Instead, Newson
concentrates on connecting meaning to movement and addressing
current social issues. Newson has created 14 works for stage,
consistently receiving major British and international awards.
After studying psychology, Newson won a full scholarship to
London Contemporary Dance School. He went on to dance with
many notable choreographers of the era before founding DV8.
His work has included commissions from the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Arts Festivals and Tate Modern, and films for the BBC and
Channel 4.
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