29.10 - 19:00 | amser / time
amser / time 06’24, United Kingdom, 2022 Director: Deborah Light, Concept and Choreography: Deborah Light, Eddie Ladd, Gwyn Emberton, DOP/editor: Pete Telfer (Culture Colony), Soundtrack: Sion Orgon, Producer: Laura Drane, Cast: Eddie Ladd, Jake Nwogu, Deborah Light, Drone&gimbal: Rob Key, Camera Assistants: Lowri Paige, Kieran Shand, Felix Cannadam, Thanks to Dr. Martin Bates, Supported by…
29.10 - 19:00 | Lemniscate
Lemniscate 05’42, The Netherlands, 2022 Concept: Lars van Tooren, Djamila Ploeg; Direction and Choreography: Djamila Ploeg; Camera and Edit: Lars van Tooren; Dancers: Marivì van den Hooff, Martijn Schipper, Sunai Elbers; Coaching: Nienke Rooijakkers, Anja Reinhardt, Alan Boom, Arantja Rosalina, Zeynep Gündüz; Music: Hania Rania; Photographer: Melissa Ploeg; Technical Equipment: Fontys AV;…
29.10 - 19:00 | OPARÁ
OPARÁ 15’00, Brazil, 2022 Production - Deriva, Tempoo, Director - Mateus Guedes, Screenplay - Mateus Guedes, Cinematography - Jão Vicente, Executive Production - Deriva, Tempoo, Cast - Silvia Góes, Orun Santana, Yuri Texeira Choreographer - Silvia Góes Orun Santana, Edition - Mateus Guedes, Color Grading - Jão Vicente, Production Assistant - Vitor Pessoa, Local Production - Tarsila Cober, Text -…
29.10 - 19:00 | The Absence
The Absence 05’34, Colombia, 2021 Director: Camilo Cogua, 2D Animation: David Andrés Vega, Juliana Hernández Rocha; 3D Animation: Carlos Eduardo Cabeza, Rubén Monroy López; Sound designer: Ricardo Escallón; Digital composition: Rubén Monroy López, Camilo Cogua; Choreography direction: Neva Ann Kenny; Performers: Camilo Martínez, Gabriela Martínez Pineda; Production design: Semillero RECLAB,…
29.10 - 19:00 | The Cities Inside Us
The Cities Inside Us 06’52, Sweden, 2022 Directed & edited, Emi Stahl & Klara Kristoffersson, Created and performed by ReAct!, Choreography by ReAct!, Cinematographer and colorist by Mattias Silva fsf, Music by David Åhrström What memories do we carry within us from different places? How do they change over time? The short film “The Cities inside us” depicts how our inner…
29.10 - 19:00 | They Dance With Their Heads
They Dance With Their Heads 08’27, Canada, 2021 Director, producer, co-choreographer, painting and drawing (on paper): Thomas Corriveau; Music: Guido del Fabbro; Sound: Olivier Calvert The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an…
29.10 - 19:00 | Dreamlike
Dreamlike 05’51, Mexico, 2022 Director: Diana Morales S.; Choreography: Harumi Gallardo, César Aragón; Music: Classic Park, Producer: Proyecto Segundo Piso; Caught between reality and daydream, Harumi is stuck in a cycle of repetition of bodies dancing in space. Diana Morales Sánchez has Master in Cinematography 2019 and Bachelor of Dance 2010. In search of a communion between…
29.10 - 19:00 | Dancing with Dementia
Dancing with Dementia 05’48, United Kingdom, 2022 Concept & direction: Elaine Harvey, Sound design: Chris Gregory Dancing with Dementia is a short dance film, based on an excerpt from the original audio documentary, which aims to animate and reimagine the metaphorical discourse around dementia by asking people affected by the condition to conceive of it as a dance. Comprised entirely…
29.10 - 19:00 | Ojo Infinito
Ojo Infinito 09’00, Mexico, 2022 Director: Daniel Magaña; Choreographer: Alfonsina Riosantos; Cinematography: Daniel Magaña, Mariano Rodriguez, Alejandro Maytorena; Dancers: Alfonsina Riosantos, Benedek Mendoza, Ernestina Ochoa, Loretto Iñiguez, Camila Perez, Melissa Esparza, Christian Flores, Daniel Magaña; Choreocinematography: Ximena Monroy Rocha, Ximena Fargas; Cultural Management: Claudia…
29.10 - 19:00 | Prisoner of the borders
Prisoner of the borders 03’07, France, 2022 Director: Morgan Eloy, Choreographer: Tia Balacey, Dancer: Tia Balacey; Music: Leon Afterbeat; Production: moovance dance, Co-writer: Carine Loison Moovance is associated with Utopia 56 in order to raise awareness of the problems of exile, borders and non-acceptance. Utopia 56 is an association that provides emergency aid to people in exile and…
29.10 - 13:00 | Facades
Facades 15’00, United Kingdom, 2021 Performed and directed by UK-based Digital Dance Artist: Kerryn Wise. VR Design by Creative Technologist Ben Neal, Producers: Courtenay Johnson and Emma Hughes, Sound: Dan Frazer. Inspired by iconic moments from film, Facades is a surreal VR noir that dances between reality & illusion. Experience hauntingly beautiful choreography from a unique…
29.10 - 13:00 | kin_
kin_ 12’00, Germany, 2021 Concept and Choreography: Charlotte Triebus, Concept and Sound Composition: Brigitta Muntendorf, Costume: Inès Alpha, Dance: Charlotte Triebus, Project Management: Charlotte Triebus, Scientific Consultation and Technical Coordination: Christian Geiger, Technical Lead: Nanette Ratz, Financial Management: Ivana Družetić-Vogel, AR Technology Development: Nanette Ratz, Peter…
29.10 - 17:00 | Insomnia
Insomnia 04’25, United Kingdom, 2021 Choreographies from Martha Graham, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang Metropolis and others Insomnia: Violent nights (2021) explores violent waking life events as experienced in the dream insomniac state through dance and bodily movement. Using hand drawn animation and archival footage it takes us into the labyrinth of ancient forces battling oppression…
29.10 - 17:00 | A Portrait
A Portrait 07’12, Finland, 2022 Director: Vilma Tihilä, Choreographer: Kauri Sorvari; Sound Designer: Heli Notkonen; Color grading: Teemu Kyytinen; Editor: Vilma Tihilä A Portrait dance film looks at an ensemble of identities within one person. The gathering identities encounter simultaneously, and different mind states move the character rapidly through shifting locations, seasons,…
29.10 - 17:00 | The Ballerina
The Ballerina 08’47, Georgia, 2022 Director: Shan Li, Cinematographer: Chen Du, Performer: Zoe Gillikin A ballerina who loses herself discovers her love for dance while changing her dance memory. Shan Li was born in Hangzhou, China, and came to the Savannah College of Art and Design in the United States to study film. He loves to tell stories, and he hopes his stories can be heard…
29.10 - 17:00 | Shattered Ripples
Shattered Ripples 06’08, China, 2022 Director & Choreographer & Dancer: Siye Tao; Cinematographer: Qing-Wen Yan; Sound Designer: Bin Tan (T.BB); Editors: Qing-Wen Yan, Siye Tao On a bright sunny day in the near future, when skyscrapers erect from the ruins, will we forget all the textured past？ Siye Tao is an educator, a choreographer, and a dancer, who is currently based in…
29.10 - 17:00 | Shut up and Listen
Shut up and Listen 03’49, Israel, 2021 Director, Choreography & Editing: Maayan Reiter, Dancers: Roni Sagi, Maayan Reiter This video-dance emphasizes a universal need of all human beings: the need to be heard. Two people engage in a dialog in words and dance. When we are in pain, the mere fact that another person is listening with empathy can make a difference. Maayan Reiter is…
29.10 - 17:00 | What is left
What is left 06’48, Canada, 2022 Director, choreographer and assistant editor: Elise Legrand, Director, DOP, cameraman, editor: Pierre-Luc Racine, Performance: Simon Durocher-Gosselin, Elise Legrand, Original music: Benoît Converset, Damien Converset, Andy Bourgeois A work of cinedance moving between dream and reality, presence and absence, memories and present-future. An impalpable…
29.10 - 17:00 | A SPACE LEFT BLANK
A SPACE LEFT BLANK 07’50, United Kingdom, 2021 Director and Writer: Travis Clausen-Knight; Assistant Director: James Pett; Choreographer: Travis Clausen-Knight; Dancer: James Pett, Travis Clausen-Knight; Filmographer: Tom Crooke for Bobbin Productions; Composer: Sean Pett; Costume Design: Yukiko Tsukamoto; Set Design: Travis Clausen-Knight, James Pett; Video Assistant: Paul Heelis; Producer:…
29.10 - 17:00 | +972
+972 14’22, Israel, 2021 Concept and direction: Dana Ruttenberg, Performers: Dana Ruttenberg and Netta Yerushalmy Dana lives in Tel Aviv. Netta lives in New York City, but spent the fall months of 2020 in Tel Aviv. Dana and Netta make dances. They were once girls. Now they are women in their 40s. Dana and Netta don’t really truly know each other and have never worked together. They…
29.10 - 17:00 | THE UNDERBODY POEM
THE UNDERBODY POEM 04’22, Ukraine, 2021 Director, DOP, Editor, Concept: Daria Balanovska, Dancer: Dimitrii Staev The multidisciplinary artist Mitya Staev and the visual artist Daria Balanovskaya explore water as a mother’s womb playground. While living in nature artists experienced a silent dialogue between water elements, sea creatures and between themselves. Hours spent in water gave…
29.10 - 17:00 | DIGI DADA
DIGI DADA 13’32, United States, 2022 Conceived, Directed, and Produced By Zbig Rybczynski And Dorota Zglobicka; Dancers and Choreography By Reanna Lee And Andres Silva, Music: Béla Bartók, 3 Songs From ”Village Scenes”, Performed By Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Conducted By Kent Nagano Digi Dada is a poetic interpretation of a Human Connection with the Earth. SHE and HE dance…
29.10 - 17:00 | Un-spoken words of a Heartist - Je suis née dans un chaos
Un-spoken words of a Heartist - Je suis née dans un chaos 07’26, Belguim, 2021 Artistic Director, writer & author: Nadine Baboy, Director: Muhiba Botan, Choreographer: Nadine Baboy, Hervé Loka Sombo, Producer: Nadine Baboy, Composer: Nadine Baboy, Kevin Lotsu, Music: " Je suis née dans un chaos", Written, composed & performed by Nadine Baboy, Composition, musical arrangement, guitar, mix…
29.10 - 17:00 | Deviens
Deviens 10’00, France, 2021 Director: Adrien lhommedieu, Dancer: Mathias Heymann (Opera Paris), Choreographer: Julien Meyzindi (Opera Paris), Producer: Julien Mabin A child who's afraid of admitting his passion for dancing encounters a ballet dancer. Adrien is a director who defines himself as a « romantic soul ». His work for brands, music labels or fiction always dig the route of…
28.10 | TOUCH
TOUCH 09’21, Canada, 2022 Director: Brittney Canda, Director of Photography: Juliette Lossky, Music: Pascal Champagne, Choreographer, producer, and distributor: Kyra Jean Green, Performers: Alexandre Carlos, Charles-Alexis Desgagnés, Emmanuelle Martin, Geneviève Gagné, Hunish Parmar, Pamela Wong, Sara Harton, Sonik Boom, Director of Photography: Juliette Losky, Steadicam: Benoit Gauthier, Camera…
28.10 | ABRACAVALA
ABRACAVALA 06’22, Brazil, 2021 Choreographer, dancer and director: Barbara Malavoglia, Editor and director: Bianca Turner she opens ways opens the doors opens the heart, opens the roads she dances free, she beats the hooves she winds the mane, she shoots the arrows go open mare her heart is blue all that she fights with is deep within she comes so bright as rays of…
28.10 | IO|OI
IO|OI 09’08, Italy, 2021 Director of Photography: Emilio Maria Costa, Choreographer: Raphael Bianco, VFX Supervisor: Giuseppe Orlando, 3D Artist: Biagio Casciaro, Music: Stefano Giacomelli, Editing: Francesco Lorusso, Line Producer: Andrea Settembrini, Assistant Director: Gabriele Licchelli, Costume Designer: Silvia Dongiovanni, Set Designer: Maurizio Fo, Sound Designer: Emiliano Gherlanz …
28.10 | Acta Nocturna
Acta Nocturna 12’34, Germany, 2021 Director: Pako Quijada, Choreography and movement direction: Anna-Lise Marie Hearn, Costume supervision: Andrea Servert, Motion graphics: Forat Sami Serving as a parodic promotional video against insomnia, and combining choreographed movement with a surreal tone, this film highlights the demand placed on customers and the often ill-defined line separating…
28.10 | EL Z G
EL Z G 06'56, Germany, 2021 Concept, choreography and performance: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Directing: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Deren Ercenk, Camera: Ronny Heimann, Deren Ercenk, Editing: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Music: Dilan Ercenk-Heimann, Music-Mastering: shordeli (Bryan Shortell) EL Z G is an attempt to capture the nature of a cultural shaped and established dance phenomenon. The video work is…
28.10 | Grounded
Grounded 07’15, Canada, 2020 Director: Annie Leclair, Dancer: Marie-Hélène Bellavance In painting and dance, Marie-Hélène, a respected figure on the Canadian contemporary art scene, finds an outlet for her creativity and her resilient spirit, after losing both her legs as a child. The arrival of her daughters sparks a new sense of freedom, pushing herself to let go self-censorship and to…
28.10 | A BODY IS
A BODY IS 03’58, Spain, 2021 Director: Jaime Dezcallar; Choreographer: Marco Flores; Music: Tagore González Antonio José Martínez Palacios was going to be the biggest Spanish musician of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, he was incarcerated and executed without a trial at the age of 33, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, with an unfinished vast body of work. Marco Flores Dance…
28.10 | Juniper
Juniper 11’57, United States Director and Choreographer: Holly Wilder, Cinematographer: Duncan Wilder Juniper explores the interconnectedness of girlhood and womanhood, and how the female experience dances with land and memory. Named by Dance Magazine as one of "9 Screendance Artists You Should Know About", sibling duo, Holly and Duncan Wilder, are NYC based Wilder Project. Together…
28.10 | Fresh oranges into the ocean
Fresh oranges into the ocean 11’43, Italy, 2022 Concept, choreography, direction: Silvia Giordano, Video director: Nuanda Sheridan, Dop & Filmmaker: Sofia Quercetti, Color grading: Sofia Quercetti, Editing: Silvia Giordano & Nuanda Sheridan, Costumes: Silvia Giordano, Music: Giorgos Gargalas, Sound design: Silvia Giordano & Giorgos Gargalas, Text: Silvia Giordano, Voices: Noemi…
28.10 | too many heroes
too many heroes 08’29, Austria, 2021 Director and choreography: Andrea K. Schlehwein; Editing (film and reels): Lukas Pirkebner, Andrea K. Schlehwein; Film Team (Five Element Films): Selina Nuart, Thomas Obereder, Lukas Pirkebner, Vera Polaschegg, Chris Rieder, Manuel Sackl; Editing TRAILER: Alina Jacobs; Grafic Layout + Head of Production: Eleonore Schäfer, Andrea K. Schlehwein; Assistant:…
27.10 | Statu Quo
Statu Quo 10’17, Canada, 2021 Directors: Lamia Chraibi, Marion Chuniaud-Lacau In a world in suspense, a common history is written. Without seeing each other, without touching, bodies move to the rhythm of boredom. Marion and Lamia are two self-taught directors who met in Montreal. Their respective first films, made in Latin America with people fighting to preserve their communities,…
27.10 | La Claque
La Claque 09’16, Canada, 2021 Director: Claire Renaud "Cheer" sheds light on feminine clichés, taboo and paradoxes and brings us within an oniric universe where sisterhood acts as a source of empowerment. Claire is a multidisciplinary artist living in Montreal. Graduated in Set design in 2014, she founded a collective (Grande Surface) and a theatre company (Les précieuses fissures),…
27.10 | Our Planet Destiny
Our Planet Destiny 10’00, China, 2021 Director: Li Chen Our fate will be connected closely, and will be in harmony with nature. Li Chen is a director, choreographer and a dancer, studying at the Modern Dance Department of Beijing Dance Academy. The film will be part of the screening on 27.10.2022, 18:30-20:00, Festival and Congress Centre - Varna.
27.10 | REMINISCENCE
REMINISCENCE 10’00, France, 2022 Director: Sarah Kuntz, Cast: Eglantine Chauchaix, Cecilia Iovinno, Pauline Leblond, Fanny Paris, Pauline Pitault, Composer: Julien Reynaud Choreography and film directing have been designed in connection with a megalithic site. The film is about megalith’s history, several civilizations megaliths have seen succeed, and the testimony that remains to us…
27.10 | Movement and the Search for Meaning - Rae Dwyer
Movement and the Search for Meaning - Rae Dwyer 02’13, United Kingdom, 2020 Director - Christopher Baker, WeMove Productions, Music - (C) - Artlist Exploring Rae Dwyer’s realisation that a deeper understanding of the body is found through feeling and movement of the body rather than through intellectual understanding. Chris Baker is a photographer / filmmaker from London, England,…
27.10 | Initial Boost
Initial Boost 15’00, Bulgaria, 2021 Director: Stanislav Rumenov Genadiev, Assistant Choreographer: Violeta Vitanova, Performers: Violeta Vitanova, Elena Kitova, Costumes: Stanislav Genadiev, Ralitsa Toneva, Psychologist consultant: Stanislava Simeonova, Cameraman, photographer: Marin Kafedzhiyski, Video processing, editing: Vladislav Iliev, Producer: “Areality” association" “Initial Boost”…