|  Elements of Mine
2003/26'
directors: Êhaled El Hagar and Norbert
Servos. choreographer: Norbert Servos. music: Habib Benedikt Elias.photography:
Andrew Catlin. editing: Markus Aha. performers: Jorge Morro and
Nikola Mascia. production: Andrea Thilo, Uwe Dierks, Thomas Grube.
Germany
The location is Berlin. The two protagonists, Jorge (Jorge Morro) and
Nicola (Nicola Mascia) live in the same house but in separate flats.
They are dancers and friends. Between them there is an intense inner
relationship like that of a younger brother (Nicola) to an older one
(Jorge). Their characters are different: Nicola is compromising and
intent on harmony, whereas Jorge is abrasive and challenging but also
the one who thrusts doors open to new experiences. They are both working
as street-performers. They move their two objects (a half-pipe as in
the case of skateboards and an icosahedron) to various sites within
the city. The half-pipe symbolizes a sensuous contact to the earth
whereas the icosahedron symbolizes space with its numerous directions
and air. The film accompanies Jorge and Nicola through a day of their
lives, from sunrise to sunset.
There is also an elderly couple with a mirror-function. The two could
be the parents or grandparents of the dancers or even the dancers themselves
in later life. The film is not specific to a certain age or sex. Each
of us goes through the process of sensuously experiencing him or herself
time and again. And each of us thus has the chance of discovering him
or herself afresh.
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 Midday
2003/ 6'
director: Margaret Williams. choreographer:
MAL PELO. music: Steve Noble. photography: Marten Nilsson. editing:
John Middlewick. performers: MAL PELO (Maria Munoz, Pep Ramis). producer:
Margaret Williams, MJW productions. UK
The short film Midday explores themes of desire, memory and loss.
To quote MAL PELO, "This world then, is one inhabited by beings
of flesh and blood, where reality and fiction are often confused-
a unique meeting point between thought and imagination."
MIDDAY is the first collaboration between Maria Munoz and Pep Ramis
of MAL PELO company, and Margaret Williams. Midday was shot in Girona,
Spain and was commissioned as part of the 2nd series of 4DANCE by
Channel 4 Television.
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Together
2003/ 9'
director: Madeleine Hertherton. choreographer:
Rowan Marchingo. music: Basil Hogios. photography: Cordelia Beresford.editing:
Bridget Lyon. performers: Rowan Marchingo, Alexandra Harrison. production:
Danielle Kelly & Luke Eve. Australia
A man enters a house and is confronted by a series of memories
of events from the past...
Through a series of dance routines we watch vignettes of a couple's
relationship at different moments. As the man is drawn through
the house he draws closer to the present and the couple's turning
point.
Together is a film about the things we try to leave behind...
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 Woven
2004/ 11'
director, choreographer: Clare
Luiten.
music: David Leahy, Frank Sinatra.
photography: Ed Davis.
editing: Ed Davis/ underbelly.
performers: Min Kyoung, Erika Viedma.
production: ColdharbourDance.
New Zealand
Woven is a short about girlhood jealousy, desires, and escape
through to adulthood. It is working with ideas of multi-personalities
and
desperate lust.
Woven is the first film of director Clare Luiten. Clare has worked
for many choreographers in the past and is now starting to create
hew own work, under the company name ColdharbourDANCE. She lives
in Auchland, NZ. Ed Davis is an independent short film, and music
video creator. He runs his own company "underbelly" in
Wellington NZ.
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Cartographie 1: Mini-golf
2002/ 8'
director: Kamal Musale. choreographer:
Philippe Saire. music: Malcolm Braff. photography: Mario del Curto.
editing: Kamal Musale. performers: Anne Delahaye, Luis Felipe Venancio.
production: Cie Philippe Saire. Switzerland
Cartographies is a choreographical hide-and-seek performed
and recorded outdoor in 2002 in Lausanne (CH). Three directors
were
given complete
freedom in exploring the urban landscape they had chosen: a
minigolf, the arches of a bridge, or a train station. Working
together
with the dancers of the Compagnie Philippe Saire, they confront
the
fragility and abstraction of dance with the forces that have
modelled the city.
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 Cantique No 1
2003/ 15'
director, choreographer: Marie
Chouinard. music: Louis Dufort. photography: Yves Belanger. editing:
Mathieu Bouchard - Malo. performers: Compagnie Marie Chouinard,
Benoit Lachambre and Carol Prieur. production: Marie Chouinard
and Compagnie Maria Chouinard / ImpulsTanz- Vienna International
Dance
Festival. Canada
Since 1978, when she presented her first work, Crystallisation,
Marie Chouinard worked for twelve years as a solo performer
and choreographer
before establishing her own company in 1990. Marie Chouinard
has lived in New York, Bali and Nepal, and is considered
as one of
the most renowned Canadian choreographers. Her travels, her
curiosity, her eclectic studies and her understanding of
various techniques,
allow her to explore the body in different ways. She has
created more than 50 solo and group works, reflecting the
concerns
of this surprising choreographer: her view of dance as a
sacred art, her
respect for the body as a vehicle of that art, her virtuoso
approach
to performance and the invention of a different universe
for each piece.
Cantique No 1 is her first film as a director.
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So Do I. Or/
Ou les Gestes Amoureux, Chapitre iv
2004/ 4'
directors - choreographers
- editing: Lucy Baldwyn, Magali Charrier. performers: Ben Ash,
Rachel Lopez, Alma Ruiz. production: SK Stiftung Kultur Koln/ Lucy
Baldwyn. UK
Two people have just
met: one French,
one English. He likes her and she likes him. Two points
or view:
the first imagines
the beginning of the relationship, the second imagines
the end of the relationship which has-yet-to start.
This film is one of the six nominated pilot videos of the
IV. German Video Dance Production Award.
Magali Charrier surprised the whole dance film community
two years ago with the sensitivity of the little universe
of Minou,
and last
year with Left or right for love?, both screened in VideoDance2003.
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Im
Gehege/ Encloser
2004/ 17'
director: Borris Dennulat. choreographer:
Teresa Rotemberg. music: Wolfgang Heiniger. photography: Tim Gunther.editing:
Sebastian Hohn. performers: Coralie Ladame, Tom Baert. production:
Filmakademie Baden - Wuttemberg, Ludwigsburg. Germany
The film is an adaptation of a mafalda company production
from 2002. The artists reinterpreted with filmic means
the choreography -a
story
about a partnership. The silent films of the 1920's provided
important inspiration.
mafalda company is Teresa Rotemberg's company from Zurich,
Switzerland. Wolfgang Heiniger teaches composition in
Berlin. The rest of
the team study in Ludwigsburg at the Filmakademie Baden - Wuntemberg.
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