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Mile "O" 2000 / 12' Director: Katrin Oettli Choreographer: Tamara Stuart Ewing Music by: Fabienne Audreoud Photography: Katrin Oettli Editing: Frank Meiling Production: SK-Stiftung Kultur, INTERARTES, GMBH, Choreograph Zentrum NRW Germany The German Video Dance prize is awarded by the SK Stiftung Kultur Foundation of Cologne in coordination with choreographic centres and other organisations every two years. Six entries are selected to go to the second phase, in which they are awarded with the sum of 3,000 _ towards the production of a 3-minute pilot film pursuing their ideas and aesthetics further. One is selected out of the six, and its final production is funded by the Foundation. Mile "O" was the winner in the last competition (1998-99), and the film was completed in 2000. It has been shown in many festivals. The film explores the memory of the body in relation with falling and gravity. Natural elements and a confined built space play a symbolic role in a story of on-going transitions through falling. According to its creators, the film invokes "the incessant strife of the being to meet its ulterior goal." The constant struggle with gravity brings to mind the myth of Sisyphus, pivotal point of reference in the mythology of existentialism. [ back to the list ]