Films A-Z 2007
Title of film
films A-Z Pdf10 Exhalations (Dutch premiere)
Russia 2006
Director: Roman Kornienko and Maria Sharafutdinova
Choreography: Alexander Andriyashkin and Alexandra Elchaninova
Time: 2:30 minutes
A man and women exhale smoke ten times in one breath. The way they act is expressive, exciting and funny.
A Divine Virtuoso - Ballet Star Vladimir Malakhov (Dutch premiere)
Germany 2005
Director: Daniela David
Choreography: Vladimir Malakhov
Time: 26:00 minutes
Vladimir Malakhov is a ballet dancer and artistic director of the Berlin State Ballet. He tours with his company around the world. This film portrays the intense life of a top dancer and shows that Malakhov is still nervous every time he enters the stage and starts to dance.
Aidskills
The Netherlands/ Germany 2005
Director: Alex Fischer
Choreography: Kelly Hirina and Alex Fischer
Time: 2:00 minutes
To honor Worlds Aids Day, Aidskills is created to help remember those who have passed away for this fatal virus. This short film brings awareness to people of the consequences of this disease.
Another Point of View (Dutch premiere)
United States of America 2004
Director: Francesca Harper
Choreography: Francesca Harper
Time: 5:55 minutes
In the classic Swan Lake of Tschaikovski the roles of the white and black swan stand for good and evil. In this film the roles of the swans are reversed and deconstructed. Each expresses feelings of being confined by society’s rigid expectations. They strive for new identity and new meaning. The White and Black Swan end up dancing together in the gray zone.
As you are (world premiere)
The Netherlands 2007
Director: Weijke Koopmans and Ronald de Boer
Choreography: Julyen Hamilton and Weijke Koopmans
Time: 7:00 minutes
In an environment where nature meets concrete two worlds converge. A man and a young girl dance in their own movement language. Their innocence and wisdom merge together in pure simplicity and beauty.
Bare-Handed (à Mains Nues)
Belgium 2006
Director: Thierry Knauff
Choreography: Michèle Noiret
Time: 26:00 minutes
Freely inspired by Joseph Noiret's text his daughter Michèle Noiret created a choreography. Bare-Handed is a poetic film of uncommon beauty. With light and shadow as her dance partners, Michèle Noiret immerses herself in a world created by her. She tries unsuccessfully to capture and to understand it.
Bone (Dutch premiere)
Canada 2005
Director: Mila Aung-Thwin
Choreography: Nadine Thouin
Time: 48:00 minutes
Bone is the first Chinese-Canadian dance co-production in history. The Canadian choreographer Nadine Thouin and composer/ musician Jerry Snell collaborated with twelve talented dancers of the Beijing Modern Dance Company. The film shows the work process of the performance including all the complications and victories. The result of Bone is the unpredictable energy that urges the universal search of individual love.
Breathe Me (Dutch premiere)
The United States of America/ The Netherlands 2006
Director: Carmen Rozestraten
Choreography: Carmen Rozestraten
Time: 9:00 minutes
A sensual woman awakes on a sun drenched beach by the touch of her ex-lover. She breathes her past and dances with the little girl she once used to be.
Coffee with Pina (Dutch premiere)
Israel 2005
Director: Lee Yanor
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Time: 52:00 minutes
Coffee with Pina is a film between a documentary and fiction. The filmmaker gave freedom to her intuitions and visual associations and created a film which can be best described as filmed photographs. Intimate moments in Pina’s universe in the studio are mixed with footage of the performances Aguá and Rought Cut.
Con la cabeza en los pies (Head on the feet)
The Netherlands/ Spain 2005
Director: Libertad Pozo Rodriguez
Choreography: Libertad Pozo Rodriguez
Time: 7:00 minutes
It all starts when a man takes the train at Amsterdam Central Station. A dialogue of words and thoughts are expressed in a variety of surreal situations. What happens when our consciousness is not able to explain our unconsciousness?
Dance
China/ United States of America 2001
Director: Dorig Ng
Choreography: Liang Xin
Time: 9:26 minutes
An African dance class triggers childhood memories of a Chinese dancer. When the dancer invites him to come, he wakes up from his daydream and starts to dance.
Divadlo (Dutch premiere)
Spain 2001
Director: Guillem Morales
Choreography: Erre que erre Compania
Time: 9:31 minutes
Inspired by the work of the Czech photographer Jan Saudek Erre que erre present a film with a strange mix of tenderness and violence, lyricism and irony, romanticism and eroticism.
The Fall of Adam (Dutch premiere)
United Kingdom 2006
Director: Gail Sneddon
Choreography: Gail Sneddon
Time: 8:00 minutes
The Fall of Adam is an urban regeneration of Adam’s fall from grace. He finds his once beautiful Eve has turned from the divine to the bovine. His body descends the endless flights to his death. He turns back to the dust in which he was created
Het Grote Gebeuren
The Netherlands 2006
Director: The Good Guys (Marcel Prins and Leon Giesen)
Choreography: the starlings
Time: 6:38 minutes
A cloud of starlings is something natural and of every day life. In this music film they perform a magical dance. Hand in hand with the music these small birds are gathering together and form a supernatural creature.
Here –After
Belgium 2006
Director: Wim Vandekeybus
Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Time: 52:00 minutes
Here-After is the camera rework of the performance Puur which gained a lot of interest during Julidans 2005. Through flashbacks Here-After tells the story of an isolated community: a group of children is killed at the command of a dictator. The characters relive their tragedy in the here-after and try to find a way to bear their trauma and pain.
Inearthia (Dutch premiere)
Switzerland 2006
Director: Director Compagnie CoLateral Maren Sandmann
Choreography: Compagnie CoLateral Simon Halbedo
Time: 2:15 minutes
How can one escape from gravity? This short film is an attempt to spin the earth and escape from gravity.
Insyn (Insight) (Dutch premiere)
Denmark 2007
Director: Klara Elenius
Choreography: Klara Elenius
Time: 14:51 minutes
Insyn is a dance film inspired by the Scandinavian mentality. The atmosphere is a little bit tense among the three characters in the film, as we meet them in a dark and quiet house somewhere in suburbia, looking for confrontations
Joséphine Baker-Black Diva in a White Man's World
Germany 2006
Director: Annette von Wangenheim
Choreography:
Time: 45:00 minutes
Joséphine Baker is one of the most famous and most popular artists of the twentieth century. This film draws a fascinating portrait of a black superstar in a white men’s world. Her legendary ‘banana belt dance’ created theater history. She was the queen of the Charleston during the ‘Roaring Twenties’, diva of the Folies-Bergère and the darling of the Casino de Paris.
Les Ballets de ci de la (Dutch premiere)
France/ Belgium
Director: Alain Platel
Choreography: Alain Platel
Time: 2:30:00 minutes
This documentary is shot to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the company Les Ballets C. de la B. Alain Platel is filming his dancers and goes back to their roots. This results in moving images when one thinks of family reunions in Burkina Faso and Vietnam. Platel is known for his unconventional approach and makes the audience a privileged witness of a new work in progress.
Lunchbreak (world premiere)
The Netherlands 2006
Director: Jellie Dekker
Choreography: improvised
Time: 10:00 minutes
In a metro station a woman is tap dancing on a platform. Suddenly on the other side of the platform a trombonist start to play. They start a playful duet until they quarrel and he leaves with the next train.
LineAge (European premiere)
United States of America 2005
Director: Jody Oberfelder
Choreography: Jody Oberfelder
Time: 7:00 minutes
LineAge contrasts the lines of our bodies with lines in landscape: imprints of time in nature and human nature. Martha Myers, 80 years old, looks through time passed. The dancers are her heroes and memories of her life.
Made in China
China 2006
Director: Zhang Yi Cheng
Choreography: Bi Ying
Time: 10:04 minutes
Made in China gives an impression of traditional Chinese dance. Flashes of western culture are edited in the film and create a huge contrast between an old cherished tradition and daily reality.
mary go round
The Netherlands 2006
Director: Ans Kanen en Janine Brall
Choreography: Ans Kanen en Janine Brall
Time: 8:30 minutes
A paranoid personage is captive in time and is flung to and fro between past, present and future. Through inner and outer impulses she experiences reality as a game which she can barely influence.
Misura
The Netherlands 2005
Director: Maaike van den Berg
Choreography: Arend van Hoorn
Time: 7:41 minutes
In a completely designed environment, a stranger goes on a quest in a playful and sparkling way.
Movement (R)evolution Africa (European premiere)
United States of America 2007
Director: Joan Frosch and Alla Kovgan
Choreography: Choreographies a.o. of: Company Tché Tché (Ivory Coast), Complany Raiz di Polon (Cape Verde), Company Jant Bi (Senegal), Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe)..
Time: 1:05:00 minutes
Beneath the surface something is happening in Africa! African choreographers know the movement language of western modern dance, but have their own dance traditions. They combine the both and create a new language to tell their stories. Eight choreographers share their vision on dance, the stories they need to tell and from where this necessity comes from.. Beautiful scenes of performances are mixed with compelling interviews that set a new light on ‘traditional Africa’.
Wednesday July 11 there will be a repeated viewing in Paradiso at 21.00. Afterwards there is an interview with choreographer Nora Chipaumire.
One Flat Thing, Reproduced (Dutch premiere)
France 2006
Director: Thierry de Mey
Choreography: William Forsythe
Time: 26:11 minutes
William Forsythe created a choreography on music of Thom Willems. Chaos and symmetry are playfully mixed. Expressive duets, strong group work and stunning solos are representing modern dance in its true form.
POD (European premiere)
Australia 2006
Director: Samual James en Narelle Benjamin
Choreography: Narelle Benjamin
Time: 10:30 minuten
Graphic templates of nature demonstrate the transformation of a body through seasonal and environmental change. The Sydney Dance Company dancers are born from water and evolve with natural environments and forms.
PORK
The Netherlands 2006
Director: Gido Leytens
Choreography: Kristel van Issum
Time: 10:17 minutes
A short film adaptation of the stage production Pork-in-Loop by Dutch dance theatre company T.r.a.s.h. PORK offers a disturbing keyhole view on ambiguous, explosive characters, struck by a loss of memory, meaning and the ability to react.
Seeking for awareness
The Netherlands, Estonia 2006
Director : Maaki Nurmeots
Choreography : Megumi Nakamura
Time: 8 minutes
She takes the time for …dreaming, feeling, observing, looking, trying, understanding, thinking, seeing, questioning, discovering and inventing...
Her mind connects with different places. Discussion with herself is expressed through her body.
It’s a dance of thoughts.
Shake Off
The Netherlands 2007
Director: Hans Beenhakker
Choreography: Hans Beenhakker
Time: 9:00 minutes
A dancer immerses himself in another world without being able or wanting to stop. Hans Beenhakker used a motion control camera to make a film in one cut. Playing with time and space the smooth camerawork brings the audience from outside in.
'Shake Off' is co sponsored by Cinedans' with the grateful help of the VSB fund.
Sharira: Chandralekha's Explorations in Dance
India 2003
Director: Ein Lall
Choreography: Chandralekha
Time: 30:00 minutes
This film draws on three major choreographed works produced by Chandralekha over the last ten years (1992-2002). Shree in 1992; Raga in 1998; and Sharira in 2002. The film demonstrates how consistently she has worked towards challenging the Victorian mores that led to the compartmentalization of the human psyche.
Solo
Belgium 2004 (Dutch premiere)
Director: Thierry Knauff
Choreography: Choreography Michèle Noiret
Time: 30:00 minutes
Solo is a cinematographic, choreographic and musical poem in which a woman’s progress in the world unfolds step by step. Solitary bearer of multiple imaginations she dances in her worlds of memories, sensations, discoveries and rekindled emotions.
Splice (European premiere)
United Kingdom 2006
Director: Chirstinn Whyte
Choreography: Chirstinn Whyte
Time: 0:54 seconds
Footage of four performers is spliced together to create a single sequence exploring the expressive properties of the human hand.
Sunbursts of light (Dutch premiere)
Sweden 2006
Director: Karin Andelius and Erika Stenlund
Choreography: Karin Andelius
Time: 2:48 minutes
Sunbursts of llight tells a story on how our past and future are connected. It is a comment on the intricate way our memories effect our minds and souls.
Tea Time (Dutch premiere)
United Kingdom2006
Director: Lisa May Thomas
Choreography: Lisa May Thomas
Time: 7:30 minutes
In the bizarre yet not unfriendly world of a deserted cafe, two men exchange their time and unspoken thoughts while they are waiting in suspense for their cup of tea.
Tiago Sequenze
United Kingdom 2006
Director: Lizzie Sykes
Choreography: Lizzie Sykes and Tiago Gambogi
Time: 2:00 minutes
Tiago films himself, spinning, jumping, taking us close to him and then pulling away again. The audience point of view is like a child in his arms, being whirled around, thrown into the air and caught again.
Timensional
China 2007
Director: Dorector: Yan Yao
Choreography: Ya'nan Liu
Time: 5:00 minutes
A woman moves literally in time. Digital time codes move rapidly and light up her body for just a moment. Although time touches her, it remains intangible.
Una Toma
The Netherlands/ Argentina 2006
Director: Rodrigo Pardo
Choreography: Rodrigo Pardo
Time: 6:00 minutes
A one-take film and unedited. That is Una Toma. Daily life and fiction are moving in front of a never stopping camera.
Will Time Tell? (European premiere)
Australia2006
Director: Sue Healey
Choreography: Sue Healey
Time: 12:30 minutes
While traveling, one's sense of time is often altered. A lady is involved in all sorts of short scenes far away from home. Will time tell her what she needs to know?