Jury Shorts2
Amsterdam, 5 juli, 19.30 h
Short international films that are selected for the Cinedans Award.
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Looking Forward | photo: Chico Colombo
Looking Forward
NL, 2007
Director: Roberta Marques
Choreography: Roberta Marques
Time: 8 minutes
Looking Forward is the first film of a trilogy that investigates the reversing of movement and time.
Dance Like Your Old Man
Dance Like Your Old Man
AU, 2007
Director: Gideon Obarzanek, Edwina Throsby
Choreography: Gideon Obarzanek
Time: 10 minutes
Dance Like Your Old Man is about the changing relationships between daughters and their fathers, the transition from initially seeing them as heroes to later understanding and accepting them as a real people, flaws and all. The fathers are really the subjects of the film, but they are never seen.
Are you for real?
Are You for Real?
US, 2006
Director: Kyle Ruddick & Cari Ann Shim Sham
Choreography: Cari Ann Shim Sham
Time: 4 minutes
Are You for Real? addresses how the heavy American workload and pace of life can literally affect and take over the physical being and distort the human psyche.
To Fly or Fall
To Fly or Fall
CA, 2008
Director: Kathi Prosser
Choreography: Kathi Prosser
Time: 5 minutes
To Fly or Fall is a hypnotic and spiritual film. Set on the roof of a sky scraper, a man fears the pull of the edge of the roof top, while a woman explores an irresistible urge to take flight. Thirty stories below the road murmurs.
If Time Pass
If Time Pass
JP, 2007
Director: Teppei Kuroyanagi
Choreography: Yannick Hugron, Kae Kurachi
Time: 5 minutes
If Time Pass paints the relationship of a man and a woman with colour in such a way that an abstract painting emerges.
Duet
Duet
NE, 2004
Director: Sil van der Woerd
Choreography: Sil van der Woerd & Judith Naber
Time: 3 minutes
Modern and classical merge in a sky-blue scenery at the first peep of dawn..
Raven Study | photo: Jess Haas
Raven Study
US, 2007
Director: Charlotte Griffi
Choreography: Charlotte Griffi
Time: 5 minutes
Animated images support this abstract fusion of music and dance capturing the spirit of the Raven within a sleek cinematic canvass.
Aprop
Aprop
ES, 2007
Director: Aitor Echeverria
Choreography: Carolina Alejos
Time: 6 minutes
Sleep interrupted by the brush of a familiar touch. The gentle caress of a finger across your back. The sigh of that voice inviting you to play.
The most everyday gestures become, at close range, an extraordinary dance.
Prototype
Prototype
FR/CH, 2007
Director: FR/CH, 2007
Choreography: Yves Ackermann
Time: 2 minutes
Prototype shows a man in the process of being shot. The hail of bullets shakes his body, his hands cramp, he reels round, end of the film.
4 clips pour aufnahmen
4 clips pour aufnahmen
CH, 2006
Director: Nicole Seiler
Choreography: Nicole Seiler
Time: 8 minutes
The 4 clips pour aufnahmen are four very short dance films. Moving bodies and bodyparts have been projected onto specific surfaces and change their original character.
Downlove
Downlove
GR, 2007
Director: Euripidis Laskaridis
Choreography: Euripidis Laskaridis, Aris Servetalis, Lina Sakka
Time: 10 minutes
In a virtual world where emotions are forgotten two avatars fail to fall in love while their cardigans come to life with unexpected results.
Dancing Swords
Dancing Swords
CAN, 2007
Director: Luke Langsdale
Choreography: Luke Langsdale
Time: 2 minutes
High above The City, two masked warriors are locked in a deadly ballet of modern dance, traditional kung-fu and sword play.
Feist 1234Feist 1234
US, 2007
Director: Patrick Daughters
Choreography: Noemie Lafrance
Time: 3 minutes 14 sec
Pop artist Feist and a group of 45 dancers create a series of tunnels, sideways and shapes. Award-winning one take music video.
