 Damen und heren ab 65
2002/ 70'
director: Lilo Mangelsdorff. choreographer:
Pina Bausch. photography: Sophie Maintigneux. editing: Eva Voosen,
Lilo Mangelsdor. performers: Senior people from Wuppertal, Wuppertal
Tanztheater. production: Cinetix GmbH im Auftrag des NDR 2002. Germany
"Wanted: Ladies and Gentlemen over 65", this is the beginning of
a small ad in a local newspaper of Wuppertal. For a new production
of her performance "Kontaktthof", first produced with her
team in 1978, Pina Bausch decided to audition non-professional, aged
male and female dancers. Out of 150 candidates, 25 were selected
and trained for over a year. The premiere took place in Wuppertal
in 2000,
and the new company toured around the world. The film traces the
rehearsals and performances, demonstrating how a few people over
65, retired from
professional life, found a new field of expression and new goals
by investing their performance with the experiences of a lifetime-
something that brings them apart in a world in which one is often
considered
old at 35.
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Jitterboy
2004/7'
director, choreographer, editing: Ani
Tchakmadjian. music: Ziggy Campbell. performer: Calum T C Tchakmakdjian.
production: Ana Tchakmakdjian / Adam Proctor of Peacock Visual
Arts. UK
Jitterboy enters and celebrates the private world of a seven-year-old
intrepid explorer, jester, warrior, rock icon and street dancer.
It is pure, contagious boy energy, a place where physicality and
imagination
fuse inextricably.
Ani Tchakmakdjian is a freelance artist, founder and Director of
Elbow Room Dance Company. The company produces surprising dance
theatre works
which combine individuality and accessibility. This is her second
dance film though previous like production "medsmama" was
a dance film collaboration. She also lectures in dance and works
widely in
the community.
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 Gold
2004/ 10'
director: Rachel Davies. choreographer:
Hanna Gillgren. music: Tom Gillieron. photography: Natasha Braier.
editing: Nick Fenton. performers: Amy Tarrant, Jessica Brough.
production: Polly Nash. UK
An experimental film exploring the formalities and demands of
Olympic gymnastics, seen through the determination, skill and
playful competition
of two girls at their local Gym club.
Based in a London suburb, GOLD creates a surreal world evoking
the promise of freedom and the power of adrenaline of the early
teenage
years.
Rachel Davies makes film and animation which is personal, formal
and poetic, often incorporating collisions of style and genre.
She has
directed award-winning animated promos for MTV, education programmes
for BBC, dance and poetry films for Channel 4, and projection
work for theatre, dance pop performances in major theatre and
stadium
venues. In 2002 she was associate artist at The Place. Currently
developing
new work on themes of fear and blindness and a longer dance film
about modern city life.
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Light Years
2004/5'
director: Jenn Goodwin. choreographer:
Elizabeth Langley. photography: Todd Buttenham. editing - production:
Kevin Krivel. U.S.A
A short video, documenting one of Canada's unsung heroes of
modern dance, Elisabeth Langley. An honest and compelling story
of a
woman who has worked over five decades as a dancer, dance educator,
choreographer,
student, mentor, mother and traveler. Her lust for life is
even greater than her own 70 years while the sum of her contribution
to Canada's
cultural fabric is immense. Langley has just recently re-launched
her career as a dance interpreter, while continuing to explore
her own
dance desires. When asked about retirement Elisabeth says, "You
retired from jobs, not from life". Health, love, risk, life, death
and dance - this is a look at Langley's pioneering inspiration on others
in the dance world and at the wisdom of an incredible performer and
person. We see Elisabeth on her 70th birthday as she contemplates her
inevitable death, while she celebrates her life, and continues to dance "like
no one is watching".
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 Touch
2003/ 7'
director: Victoria Marks and Alla
Kovgan, choreographer: Victoria Marks. photography: John Bishop.
editing: Alla Kovgan and Victoria Marks. performers: Annie Arredondo,
Jose Reyes, Korisha Hmblet, Kashif Harris, Charlene Elgart, Elliot
Elgart, Tom
Burke, Steve
Rostine. USA
Touch in extreme close-up is like a form of reverence, a
prayer. Four different couples, a pre-adolescent African-American
boy
and girl,
an elderly white man and woman, a blind Hispanic man and
woman, and two middle-aged white men cross paths in the space
created
through
touch. An ode to a particular formulation of intimacy or
a deeply subjective phenomenon that brings discomfort for
each
of us to
discover...
Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film, in
community settings, and for professional dancers. Alla Kovgan
is a film/video
makes and teacher from Moscow (Russia) who has liven and
worked in Boston (US) since 1996.
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Brenin
2004/ 14'
director: Margaret Constantas. choreographer:
Simon Whitehead. music: Barbaby Oliver. photography: Philip Cowan.
editing: Jon Everett. performers: Cai Tomos, Roeger Trefere, Glan
Rees, Cor Crymych (Crymych Choir), Bois - Y
- Frenni (Boys of the Frenni Choir). production: Karen Whiteshide,
BBC Wales. UK
On 5th June 2000, Cardiff academic Terry Breverton, published "evidence" that
Elvis Presley's ancestors originated in the Presli hills in West Wales.
Inspired by these claims, Margaret Constantas has made a performance
work for the screen that magically calls Elvis' spirit and presence
back to the homeland of his ancestors. Brenin (King) was filmed on
location in the Preseli Hills, featuring a cast of 19 men made up of
local farmers, teachers, postmen, park wardens and a vicar, gathered
from 2 choirs. Through a blend of bilingual choric song, dance and
performance, Brenin conjures up "The King" in
lament, gospel and cannu pwnc.
This film, made by performance artists, choreographers
and established directors was commissioned from a development
process of eighteen
ideas for a short performance-based film, for transmission
on BBC Wales Television.
The project has spanned two years and culminated in the
production
of a number of short performance films.
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The cost of living
2004/ 35'
director - choreographer:
Lloyd Newson. music: Nick Hooper, Paule Charlier, Jonathan
Cooper. photography: Cameron Barnett. editing: Stuart
Briggs. dance company: DV8 Physical Theatre. performers: Eddie
Kay, David Toole, Vivien Wood, Tanya Liedtke, Rowan Thorpe, Kareena
Oates, Tom
Hodgson, Jose Maria Alves,
Robin Dingemans, Eddie Nixon, Gabriel Castillo. production:
DV8 Films for Channel Four Television. UK
David and Eddie are street performers struggling to get
by in a seaside town. The Cost of Living follows them
as they
work,
argue,
fail at
romance and fall out with old friends.
The Cost of Living is part dance film, part drama. The
stories are told through a combination of stylized movement
and dialogue.
All of
the stories are about the cruelty of judgment, about
how we value ourselves and other people...the cost of
living...
DV8 have made work for the stage since 1986. The Cost
of Living is their fourth film, and is choreographed
and directed
by
Lloyd Newson.
DV8 Ôs work is about taking risks, both physically and
aesthetically, dealing with personal politics and, above
all, communicating
ideas and feelings clearly and unpretentiously. It is
determined to be
radical yet accessible, and to take its work to as wide
an audience as possible.
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 Zimmer
2004/ 3'
director, choreographer: Helena
Jonsdottir. music: Hallur Ingolfsson, Archive "Blossom
in the Dust". editing: Elisabet Ronaldsdottir.
performers: Olafur Darri Olafsson. production: SK Stiftung
Kultur Köln. Iceland, Germany
Helena Jonsdottir's film is a vision on the interface
between her own and original concept of physical expression,
the
cultural condition
in the communication age and the degree of its awareness.
The body as a landscape: A fat male "couch potato" is
the definite antithesis to the moving body.
The video "Zimmer" was selected as prize
winner of the IV. German Video Dance Production Award
2003/2004.
This
film is
one of
the six nominated pilot videos of the IV. German Video
Dance Production Award.
Helena Jonsdottir is one of Iceland's leading young
choreographers.
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