July 8th | 21:30 | Rubik Art Center
Intriguing titles selected in the eighth edition of Moving Body Festival. They all present a great exploration of the 'screen dance' or dance for screen genre itself and reveal strong ideas and messages.
Remnants
06’44’’, The United Kingdom
Director: Tolu Oshodi
Director of Photography: Asia Rose Kilgallon
Camera operator: Connor Hamilton
Sound Design: Stead
Performers: Ayo Babatope & Kikz Katika
I read somewhere that every cell in the human body is destroyed and replaced every seven years. How comforting it is to know that one day I will have a body you will have never touched.
Remnants is the second iteration of a continuing body of work. The project is an exploration of the cyclical nature of cell regeneration occurring over a seven-year time span. The work is an inquiry into how this process relates to the human body and the physical encounters we have in our lifetime.
Directed by Tolu, Remnants takes the viewer on a visual journey through the landscape of the body. It uses movement, colour and sound to depict two bodies navigating the delicate exchange of power dynamics inherent in intimate relationships exploring sentiments of vulnerability, transformation and renewal.
Ghosts in the Machines
05’57’’, Australia
Director and writer: Garry Stewart
Key Cast: Daniel Jaber, Rowan Rossi, Darci O’Rourke, Ally Clarke, Christopher Mills, Zoe Wozniak
It is a short dance film that features 6 stunning dancers from the Australian Dance Theatre interacting with industrial robots.
Doll+- Body Transmigration in its Ideal Fantasy
13’22’’, Canada
Director: Ran Zhou
Producer: Thomas Moore
In a posthuman world, a Chinese factory meticulously crafts the ideal figure from vibrant orange-yellow plastic. Devoid of gender and untethered to biological constraints, this entity exists within a virtual realm where notions of sickness, death, and beauty are rendered utterly absurd. Through the surreal spectacle of plastic dolls gyrating in the heavens to the rhythms of electronic music, the film ponders on capitalism, virtual existence, and the very essence of the human body.
Joyride
04’35’’, Austria
Idea, Concept & Edit: Dina Yanni
Video Sample: Blue Hawaii (1960)
Audio Sample: The Pink Room (1992), Angelo Badalamenti
Vhs to digital. Fast Forward and slowed down. A synthesis of the digital and the analog glitch.
LUVOS migrations
14’00’’, Austria
Director: Editta Braun & Menie Weissbacher
Composition, recording, mixing: Thierry Zaboitzeff
Camera, post-production, animation: Menie Weissbacher
Dance: Martyna Lorenc, Anna Maria Müller, Sonia Borkowicz, Berta Ramírez, Screenplay
Choreography: Editta Braun
Editing consulting: Thomas: Hinterberger, Joana Scrinzi
Location scouting in Austria and Kenia: Menie Weissbacher
Light design: Thomas Hinterberger
Project development consulting: Steph Meisl, Beda Percht, Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Production: Editta Braun company
Vision of the future or images from a parallel universe? In breathtaking natural sceneries, automated industrial landscapes and deserted ruins, a journey through time and living spaces unfolds. Strange LUVOS beings from Editta Braun’s body illusion theatre conquer the screen to Thierry Zaboitzeff’s powerful and sensitive music.
the Occluding edge
10’30’’, Austria
Director: Michael O’Connor
Dance: Samuel Feldhandler, Michela Filzi, Miguel Witzke Pereira, Sophia Obermeyer
Camera: Jubal Battisti
Video and sound editing: Michael O’Connor
Second camera: Valentin Braun
Assistant: Harumi Terayama
Color grading: Jubal Battisti
Edges make lines that inform us of hidden spaces and proximities.
Inner Room
05’49’’, Bulgaria
Director and choreographer: Ina Gerginova
Cinematographer: Ivan Nikolov
Editing: Alexander Evtimov-Shamancheto, Ivan Nikolov
Special effects: Nikola Gyulmezov
Music and Sound design: Alexander Evtimov-Shamancheto
Dancers: Ina Gerginova, Ana Miteva, Mariana Kapoustyanova, Christina Veselinova, Rositsa Ivanova
Stylist: Irina Tsapreva
Photographer: Nikola Gyulmezov
Assistant director: Christina Tantcheva
Assistant choreographer: Mariana Kapoustyanova
Grip: Ludmil Venev
A room no one has ever entered is the only possible meeting space for the various manifestations of a young woman in search of meaning to continue her life.
Marie. Eduardo. Sophie
03’15’’, Canada
Direction, production: Thomas Corriveau
Dancers: Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara, Sophie Corriveau
Music: Guido Del Fabbro
A mesmerizing contemplation of moving bodies and painting, with three magnificent performers of Montreal contemporary dance, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara and Sophie Corriveau. The film reveals a triptych of colorful portraits that come to life through movement. A singular work.
The Seven Cults
05’00’’, The Netherlands
Director: Jerom Fischer
Writer: Jerom Fischer, Elsemarijn Bruys
Producer: Frits van de Clips
The Seven Cults is a collection of 7 super short experimental films that give us a glimpse into the world of seven fictitious cults. Each with their own system of belief, rituals and objects of worship. One cult shuts down all of their five senses in order to appreciate life to the fullest, another assimilates with mother nature to reach enlightenment. Together, the collection tells a story about obsession. How the human need to become more than what we are can lead us down dark paths. The Seven Cults is a collaboration of choreography, minimalistic art-direction and styling put together in a black box. The project has become a true exploration of creativity and experimentation.
Walls Beneath Our Feet
04’51’’, Finland
Director & script: Antti Suniala
Artists: Rauli Dahlberg & Teemu Skön, Race Horse Company
Music: RRKK @ Observatorio, Helsinki
Director of photography: Christoffer Collina
2nd camera: Antti Suniala
Editing & Color grading: Petri Erkkilä
Production: Antti Suniala, Race Horse Company
Walls Beneath our Feet is a circus/dance short film inspired by the Pasila Street Art District in Helsinki exploring movement in urban space from unexpected angles.