Movies by Movers 7.12–16
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presents MOVIES BY MOVERS 7.12–16 Created and Filmed across 11 countries July 12th–16th, 2017 DIRECTOR’S NOTE Welcome to the 2017 ADF’s Movies by Movers Film Festival! It is with excitement that we present this program to you as we continue the tradition of having dance film as part of the offerings at the American Dance Festival. 2017 marks 22 years of supporting screendance at ADF! As is the case with prior iterations of the festival, this year’s line up is special for a multitude of reasons. Each year, films submitted from around the world are considered for the ADF’s Movies by Movers, and as the curator for this program it is my pleasure to watch, and enjoy, each and every one. It is through the submission and viewing process, that the screenings are created – or rather, that the screenings emerge. One of my greatest pleasures as a curator of screendance is allowing the work to speak for itself, and for the conversation around the work to begin with listening to how the work wants to be presented. Often in the viewing process, a few films will jump out at me and say, “We have something to say. Put us together and let the dialogue begin!” This year, a few themes have come through loud and clear. These themes say a lot about where our minds are, in the collective, both creatively and socially. In particular, there are films that tackle women’s issues across the world, that question our relationships to technology, and feed our need for contemplative space. Of course, there are also films which offer us pure joy, help us wrestle with what it means to be an artist, and give us opportunities to reframe our perceptions and expectations around what art is and can be. For all of this, I am grateful. I am delighted to share this with you, and I hope you enjoy these films as much as I do! –Cara Hagan, ADF’s Movies by Movers Director and Curator. WEDNESDAY | 7.12 | 7:30PM Location: White Lecture Hall Shorts 1: Student works 24-hour film project THE 24 HOUR FILM PROJECTS WERE CREATED BY ADF SIX WEEK STUDENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE DURHAM COMMUNITY THREE ON FOUR Origin: United States–2016 Runtime: 3 minutes 41 seconds Director, Producer, Choreographer Marty Buhler Composer Brianna Lopez Cinematographers/videographers Angela Rosales Challis and Dat Nguyen Dancers Justin Bass, Marty Buhler, and Tyler Orcutt NOTE: This film is about the re-imagination of sound and movement. Through the de- corporealization of both body and sound, I created choreography and a sound score that emerged from within the elements given- creating a new work that does not exist in the corporeal sense. THICKER THAN WATER Origin: United States–2014 Runtime: 8 minutes 19 seconds Director, Choreographer, Writer Amberly M. Simpson Producers, Videographers K. Stecke and SteckelFX Dancers Nathan D. Claus and Amberly M. Simpson NOTE: What if acceptance of your own personal history came with hidden barriers? What if, in order to move into a new future, you had to let go of all the teachings of your past, tings that have become so much a part of you that they have surpassed your recognition of them being anything unusual? What if you didn’t know how to do this? What if you couldn’t? What if you had to? DROP Origin: United States–2017 Runtime: 6 minutes 33 seconds Director, Producer, Choreographer Aundrea Anderson Dancers Sheridan Bernstein, Britt Ford, and Taylor King NOTE: This work explores through the female body the concept of Ophelophelia: an obsession with the archetype of a drowning virgin. It is a journey of the sexualized female body from being condemned by the male gaze to taking her own sexual power within the frame. CONNECTION LOST Origin: Mexico–2016 Runtime: 4 minutes 29 seconds Director, Producer, Choreographer Marilu Aguilar Moreno Cinematographer/videographer Uziel Perez Dancers Camila Chávez, Carla Gómez Roel, Damián Guillermo Criollo, Itzel Betancourt, Juan Carlos Padilla, Katya Heras, Liliana Vergara, Raul Franciscos Osuna, Renata D. Monteón, Salvador Ruíz - Extras: Aldo Bejarano, Danya Mireli Rodríguez, and Gonzalo Rodríguez NOTE: Connection Lost is a dance short film that shows how devices are decreasing social connectivity and interfering with human interaction. There is no more intimacy nor closeness between people and glances and communication are being centered in an object, focusing on the ones who are not present and missing out on the ones who are. X-TREM Origin: Spain–2016 Runtime: 5 minutes 10 seconds Director Marta Arjona Producer DansPXL Choreographer Mei Casabona Composers North End Nightlife, Headphone Activist, and Zoë Keating Cinematographers/videographers Marta Arjona and Alberto Pérez-Mora Dancers Noemi Arche, Iliane Borràs, Daniel DomiÍguez, Judit Entrena, Èrica Garcia, Carla Garcia, Cristina Giró, Lavinia Hriscu, and Anna Marsal NOTE: Through movement, the dancer is constantly experimenting physical and emotional changes. But, what about the viewer? X-TREM pretends to design connections made from the abstraction of movement, where body, space and image draw and define, in order to birth something personal in the viewe. X-TREM is an audiovisual project made by DansPXL with the dance students of DansAra, Espai Municipal de Dansa de Sarral. THE EDGE OF BALANCE Origin: United States–2016 Runtime: 4 minutes 53 seconds Director, Videographer, Producer, Choreographer Jennifer Petuch Composers Ronnie W. Verboom and Marco Zannone Dancer Barbara Meulener NOTE: “The Edge of Balance” captures a moment when the natural world becomes imbalanced. This film depicts a girl empowered to fix her teetering world. In a race against time she is able to create homeostasis, the balance in nature. This work was created in Spring 2016 filmed at Lafayette Heritage Trail Park in Tallahassee, Florida. I wanted to explore creative tools of perspective and vantage points, particularly canted angles. I developed a plot for a soloist to interact with nature in an innovative way to make it appear as if the natural world was tilting and she was the only being who had the ability to fix it. This film is a metaphor for the power of the determined woman and the control she possesses in the balance in her own life. RIGHT Origin: Canada–2016 Runtime: 1 minutes 50 seconds Director, Producer, Animator Emily Faulkner Composer Luke Pickman and Stéphane Calce NOTE: A visual interpretation of Luke Pickman’s original composition “Work Song”, in which a painter reveals a secret. CAMINATORE Origin: United States (Filming in Italy)–2016 Runtime: 4 minutes 59 seconds Director, Producer Angela Rosales Challis Choreographer Elisabetta Bortolotto Composers Aaron Moura, Nick Day, and Thomas Mouchawar Cinematographer/videographer Conor Long Dancers Francesco Gerbi and Carola Anna Roccataglia NOTE: Caminatore in Italian means the one who travels. The places that we visit and the memories that we hold mold our personalities. Filmed in Genova, Italy EXIT STRATEGY #2 Origin: United States–2016 Runtime: 4 minutes 28 seconds Director, Producer, Videographer Kym McDaniel Dancer Kym McDaniel NOTE: Exit Strategy #2 (Speak) is the second in a series of films regarding the mind and body relationship to trauma, repression, and coping. As I continue to seek medical treatment for a head injury incurred from a choreographed fall in May 2013, I encounter a physical therapist who triggers a memory of another physical therapist I had in 2010. I have been reinforced throughout my life that creating boundaries and using my voice to state my needs is shameful. In resistance to my past ways of coping, I release this stored body memory and exercise my right to speak. CECI N’EST PAS MAGRITTE // THIS IS NOT MAGRITTE BY IVAN SKORIK Origin: Russia–2016 Runtime: 5 minutes 54 seconds Director Ivan Skorik Production Design Sofia Kobozeva Composer Pensees and Ksenia Galyga Cinematographer/videographer Danila Goryunkov Dancers Olesya Astapova and Nikita Kurilow NOTE: A story inspired by paintings of René Magritte. The film was created as a part of Cinema Dance Project at Acting Faculty of Moscow Film School. THURSDAY | 7.13 | 6:00PM Location: The Nasher Museum Shorts 2: Highlighting women’s voices (N) YOUR APPROVAL IS NOT ESSENTIAL Origin: Netherlands–2016 Runtime: 11 minutes 49 seconds Director, Writer Leen Michiels Producer Yola Parie Choreographer Jelena Kostic Cinematographer/videographer Mark Sanders Dancers Ulrika Kinn Svensson and Majon van der Schot NOTE: When a chance supermarket encounter unlocks untapped passion in an ordinary woman, her grey life quickly goes into sensory overload. ‘Your approval is not essential’ sheds a colorful, whimsical light on what happens when you let go of your inhibitions and – out of the blue – start embracing life’s quirky pleasures. WOMAN VERSUS Origin: United States–2016 Runtime: 12 minutes 33 seconds Director, Producer, Choreographer Justina Grayman Cinematographer/videographer Joseph Adcroft Dancers Alexandria Johnson, Samantha Bergman, Sarah Kleinke, Mikayla Hendry, Justina Grayman, Holly Jones, Emily Anderson, Gina Montalto, and Shannon Nash NOTE: Woman Versus is a dance film about a woman’s awakening to the machines, or systems, that she is forced to take part in. It is the tale of her (and others’) struggle to stay within those machines and accept their domination or to challenge their power. CHASSER Origin: Taiwan–2016 Runtime: 4 minutes 4 seconds Director Meng Hsueh Ho Producer Wen-Chun Liu Cinematographer/videographer Dennis Chen Dancer Chen-Hui Yen NOTE: The performer “Her”, has been gazed, chased, and aggressed by “I” behind the camera. What would happen once “She” has the power to reverse the relationship of subject/ object, of gaze and chase? CEILING Origin: United States–2016 Runtime: 3 minutes 53 seconds Directors Katherine Helen Fisher and Govind Rae Producer Safety Third Productions Choreographer Katherine Helen Fisher Composer “Etude 1A” by Nico Muhley, performed by Nadia Sirota Cinematographers/videographers Larkin Donley and Sam Miron (Assistant) Dancer Katherine Helen Fisher NOTE: CEILING focuses on a dancer’s repetitive leap as a physical allegory for striving.