Mass - screendance “rapids’’?
Humans have no nature, only history” – José Ortega y Gasset – A shot from Mass with director and choreographer Fu Li The 10-minute screendance film by French director and choreographer Fu Li deals directly and frontally with the topic of the masses. He announces it in the title of the work, choreographs it in collaboration with 30 dancers, suggests it through the musical…
To dance away the burden of being
Time is the pure (a priori) form of inner sense, i.e., our awareness of our own inner mental states. Time is the a priori formal condition of all appearances in general. – Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A shot from Burden Halved directed and choreographed by Kitty McNamee with artistic director and sculptor Lara Schnitger Burden Halved is an extremely peculiar encounter…
Left alone to ourselves
Art serves man to rise and ascend spiritually above himself, to use what we call spiritual will. – Andrei Tarkovsky – A shot from Intertidal.Barene produced by Collettivo CONFLUENZE Intertidal.Barene takes off slowly, very slowly, very very slowly, and the rhythm remains unchanged until the end of the screendance artwork. The shots in the film are sculpted from one…
The freedom to be yourself and the right to live in dignity
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. – From the “UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS” A shot from Waiting for color concept and implementation Kosta Karakashyan The film is Waiting for color and the director is Kosta Karakashyan. The plot is the gay purge in Chechnya in 2017, and the main topic is…
Waiting for Color – gravitational and driving forces
Dance, cinema, screendance, activism – one of the unifying characteristics between these concepts is often the movement. We may say that these are arts and forms of movement, or at least forms in which movement has a fundamental role. In some direction, at some pace, towards or moving away, inwards to the core or beyond, with purpose and intention, or in the grip of chaos? Kosta…
For the poetry of a movement
Universal, beautiful, quiet, ordinary, communal, stripped down, inviting, multiplying, different, close, meditative, soothing, focused, mesmerising, connecting, loving, tender, caring, fragile, here and now, deep. This is a movie-song for the world, a movie-pause from the world or a movie-stroll in the world. Navigation... It is a sublime poetry of the movement, of the landscape shots and the…
The moving atmosphere in heights and depths
All we know of ourselves is just a certain little surface and there is a whole under-earth of complexity to us that, by definition, keeps out of our sight. It is actually absent to us. It comes through dreams. – John O’Donohue – still from Heights, concept and execution Svetlin Velchev Today’s online meeting is with choreographer and visual artist Svetlin Velchev,…
Corpus – the beginning of all beginnings
Bodies don’t take place in discourse or in matter. They don’t inhabit ‘’mind’’ nor ‘’body’’. They take place at the limit, qua limit: limit – external border, the fracture and intersection of anything foreign in a continuum of sense, a continuum of matter. An opening, discretness. – Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus A shot from “Corpus”, concept and implementation Iskra…