FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: A Lil’ Dirty Edition (October 2021)
COMING SOON - November 7th, 2021
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Yurodivy
Film by (c) Ryan Renshaw 2021 AUSTRALIA
Based upon the legend of Sisyphus and using the voice of the late-philosopher Alan Watts, Yurodivy explores contemporary humankind's relentless pursuit for wealth and happiness.
Ryan Renshaw - Directo
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Sara Taghaode - Executive Producer
Kyle Page - Concept & Choreography
Dancers - Marlo Benjamin, Maddi Campbell, Damian Meredith, Niharika Senapati, Felix Sampson, Michael Smith & Glenn Thomas
Liam Edward Brennan - Director of Photography
Alisdair Macindoe - Music
Brian Ritchie - Music
AUTONOME - MADA MADA
film Alexandre Richard (c) 2020 CANADA
Montreal, 1954. An exiled author is thrown into a dance with his inner demons. Shaken by the unwavering tides of his life, a gentle touch comes to mind.
Alexandre Richard - Director, Writer & Editing
Graham GS - Producer & Cinematographer
Alexe Laroche - Producer
Alexander Bain Clarke - Producer
Charles-Alexis Desgagné - Dancer
Les Orphelins - Production Team
Mada Mada - Singer - Songwriter
Veronique Duplain - Artistic Director
Jonathan Auger - 1st AC
Alexe Laroche - 1st AD
Maxime Latraverse - Key Grip
Maxime Bélanger - Sound Recording
David Gogan - On Set Photographer
Kristopher Laflamme - Sound Design & Mix
Martin Gaumond - Color Grading
Production Assistants - Catherine Maheu,
Laurie-Anne Perreault,
Émilie Beaumier,
César Marchena,
Antoine Parle,
Dylan Bernier,
Valérie Leroy-Pleshoyano &
Maxime Bélanger
Marc Hall - VFX Supervisor
VFX Artists - Jonathan Cyr,
Vincent Campbell &
Jérémy Berger
Black Out
film by Philippe Saire (c) 2017 SWITZERLAND
Philippe Saire - Director
Dancers - Philippe Chosson, Maëlle Desclaux & Benjamin Kahn
Subtle Body
film by Robin Bisio (c) 2020 USA
Subtle Body is suffused with pure beingness distilled on the mountain outcropping of Lizard’s Mouth above Santa Barbara. In concert with sky and clouds, move through time and space with dancer Nikki Pfeiffer. Geologic memory rests here, in the moving grace of a dancer in falling light. Robin Bisio - Director & Producer
Nikki Pfeiffer - Dancer
Billy Winger - Composer
Nik Blaskovich - Cinematographer
Ethan Turpin - Editor
Sempiternal
film by Maya Alfreds (c) 2020 CANADA
Explores the concept of identity in a world of black and white thinking. Grey finds herself in the middle and attempts to find harmony between the two. She finds herself looking within boxes, representing the ideas of society, for clarity on her decision, but instead creates something completely new: gray.
Maya Alfreds - Director & Writer
Priya Soni - Writer, Producer & Director of Photography
Gian Stephan Mendez - Production Designer
Danila Demin - Editor
Celso Augusto Limoli - Gaffer
Santiago 'Chippi' Garcia - Camera Operators
Danny Lazaro - Camera Operators
First Assistant Camera - Andrea Rescigno &
Andres Becerril Gutierrez
Second Assistant Camera - Nilou Mozafari & Amir Hossein Pahlevan
Omar Valencia Aguilar - Key Grip
Dev Rohira - Dolly Grip
Scotty Thompson - Jib Operator
XiaoXiao Geng - Grip and Electricians
Neal Bafna - Grip and Electricians
John Navarro - Grip and Electricians
Bojian Liu - Grip and Electricians
Elva Oktawi - Grip and Electricians
April Rose - Art Director
Kate Murtagh - Choreographer
Rutvik Rawal - Set Decorator
Anai Smillie - Key Makeup Artist
Centaine How Ngan Chong - Key Hair Stylist
Alicia Herzog - Line Producer
Demi Eren - Second Assistant Director
Luisa Gobel Janiszewski - Script Supervisor
Gudiya Lankalapalli - Stills Photographer P
Priya Soni - Post Production Supervisor
Bruno Lenone Curry - Assistant Editor & DIT
Dallis Swiatek - Colourist
Frank Munro - Sound Design
‘STRATA’ BY MOBY courtesy of https://mobygratis.com - Credits Music
Six People
film by Zhou LiHeng (c) 2019 CHINA
When entering the creative discussion stage, everyone will have their own ideas. What theme do you want to shoot? What pictures? It became a problem for us, and when we decided that Gunica was going to be the dancer, one of the things that came out of that was the idea of starting from the dancer herself, and developing from her life experience. As a director, the pictures we want to shoot are different from each other. In the case of limited time, we choose to let go of the limitations, use the dancers' bodies to shoot the pictures we want, and finally gather all the materials together for second creation. So the six of us ended up producing six different versions of the image, and I think it was a really good creative process, a workout, a growth."
Zhou LiHeng - Director & Producer
Writers - Zhang Xin,
Zhu XinYun,
Wu JieGong &
Fan ShiWen
Gu NiKa - Dancer
Silt
fim by Claire Marshall (c) 2019 AUSTRALIA
“Silt” is created around four characters who find refuge in a quaint little beach in the middle of the Brisbane CBD in Queensland, Australia. The micro beach is situated on the edge of the Brisbane River and sees many people pass by on boats, jogging past though the park, as well as vehicles zoom over the large structure of a bridge above. Furthermore, set with the skyline of modern skyscrapers in the background, the characters are surrounded by large, rigid, man made structures. The little beach, in contrast, is a place the four characters meet and connect and interact, escaping the world that surrounds them. However, Juxtaposed to this sense of freedom and escape, their movement output is deliberate, clunky and hard, resonating their surroundings. Silt was created for four dance students who were 17, 18, 19, and 20 years of age at the time of filming in November 2018. The four enthusiastic student dancers worked with Claire Marshall in Claire's "Test Pressing" Project Group to extend dance experiences at a pre-professional level. Silt has been selected for programming at the In Shadow Film Screendance Festival Lisbon in 2020 and Re-think Dance Festival, North Dakota, USA in 2021
Claire Marshall - Director, Producer, Editor & Chpreographer
Dancers - Amelia Le-Bherz, Maddison Campbell, Kirrah Jobst & Paige Rasmussen
Kevin Holloway - Cinematorgrapher
Life: Plastic Wrapped
film by Sasha Chudacoff (c) 2020 USA
“Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” - Charles Moore . Life: Plastic Wrapped is film by Sasha Chudacoff in collaboration with other interdisciplinary artists. It was filmed and edited during 2020 Quarantine. Did you know plastics are making a HUGE comeback due to covid-19? The increase of plastic production and waste has been directly effected by this global pandemic. The poem,"I am a head in a plastic bag (for sasha)" was written by collaborator, Haley White in relation to my obsession with our plastic problem.Taking ownership of my own participation in our plastic world and climate catastrophe has allowed me to contemplate these issues on a deeper level. If the earth body is in crisis, our human bodies are in crisis. What are the connections of our own Neuroplasticity (ability for human brain to change and rewire itself) and the earths plasticity (ability to change form)? This is now where I now stay with the trouble of plastic in all its metaphors in our modern times. What are the regenerative healing practices to engage?
Sasha Chudacoff - Director & Dancer
Imitation and Splattery
film by Michelle Bernier (c) 2016 USA
“L’Amant A dancer and a ceramicist enjoy one another's processes and products. Michelle Bernier - Director Tyler Stocker - Camera Ariana Kolins - Ceramics Artist J.S. Bach as performed by the Swingle Singers - Music
INTERMISSION
From this point on.......…………………….
TV-MA – TV Mature Audience
Only This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults
and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17.
Pasion de Manos
film by Desi Jevon (c) 2020 USA
No glove... no love
Desi Jevon - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Noelia Martin Barrera - Dancer
What I want to say, Burn! (English subtitled)
film by Luís Damas(c) 2013 PORTUGAL
What I see, Is Poetry recited with the Body. Luis Damas - Author, Choreographer & Director Ulysses - Writer XpressoDança/Luís Damas - Produce Sandra Rosado - Dancer Carlos Santos - Editing and Post-production Eddie, Rui Simões, Luís Damas - Camera Thanks to - Sandra Rosado, Rui Simões and Carlos Bechegas 11' 21'' - Team RealFiction(Image) Forum Lisbon(Sound) - Recorded at 2013 - Year of production Luis Damas - Lights Eeva Tuuhea - translation Fernando Mendes - Subtitle
Chapter 5
film by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (c) 2019 CANADA
Chapter 5 is a screen dance film about a young man battling drug addiction and the tenuous balance between pleasure and self-demise. Rodrigo Rocha-Campos - Director, Writer, Editor & Producer Arash Khakpour - Dancer, Choreography & Movement Will Meadows - Music Skye Dyken - Production Design
L’Étreinte des Valkyries/ The Embrace of the Valkyries
film by Alan Lake (c) 2019 CANADA
Through Scrape The Twilight, Alan Lake continues the symbolist epic begun with The film Ravages. In a variation of solos thought for his long-time collaborators, he advances not on his intimate territories, but on those of the interpreters. The piece shows a series of portraits revealing the moving layers of their interior landscapes, and this, in a multidisciplinary approach that combines dance, visual arts and cinema. These stories and fantasies are magnified beyond human experience, contributing to the enrichment of Lake's own language and mythology.
Alan Lake - Director, Write, Producer, Artistic Director & Choreographer
Dancers - Esther Rousseau-Morin, Arielle Warnke St-Pierre, David Rancourt & Fabien Piché François Gamache - Cinematographer
Jason Arbour - Editor
Antoine Berthiaume - Music & Sound Editor
Isabelle Lapierre - Artistic Director
EQUILIBRE (english sub)
film by Pat Lafeline (c) 2019 FRANCE
Daria, a young dancer, leads a double life between a neo-classical dance company and a clandestine night club. The mysterious disappearance of one of the troupe dancers opens an investigation. In the club, Daria witnesses the abuse of customers including those of Menza, a gangster hanging around the place. Daria will invite him to her home for a private dance and reveal the secret of the disappearance of her colleague ...
PAT LAFELINE - Director & Dancer
DARIA PANCHENKO - Writer & Dancer
FRANCK BAILLLEUL - Producer
CHRISTOPHE FLUDER - Dancer
MENZA BAHRI - Dancer
Forever Animation
film by Nicolai Sagasser (c) 2020 GERMANY
A one take video, directed, performed and edited by Nicolai Sagasser. This Dance Video combines Animation Dance, Tutting, Camera Moves and Visual Editing in One Single Take in perfect harmony with the music. Nicolai Sagasser - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Body/ Bag
film by Mark Freeman USA
“We’re born is a sac –– and we leave in bag.” Gavin Krastin markfreemanfilms.org South African choreographer Gavin Krastin’s performance explores the limits and boundaries of movement while trapped in a transparent sheath. A solitary, vulnerable performer confronts the body’s desire to break free, while only breath escapes. His physical struggle to move is a portrait of resistance to stasis, stagnation, loss and futility. Krastin describes himself as “a gay, white, South African of a certain privilege and class in relation to other bodies.” He suggests that the work deals with race and is intended to “expose and speak to the larger politics that affect us all.” More than 20 years after Mandela became president, South Africa – like so much of the world – is still constrained and divided by race, gender and class. The struggle for freedom is ongoing.
Mark Freeman - Director, Producer & Editor
Gavin Krastin - Choreographer & Dancer
Smangaliso Ngwenya - Cinematographer
Shaun Acker - Composer
bestiário (bestiary)
film by Benedito Ferreira (c) 2020 BRAZIL
Every day of my life / in the middle of the backyard / I know everything will come together. Benedito Ferreira - Director, Writer & Producer Daniel Calvet - Actor/dancer/performer & Choreography Larry Machado - Cinematography Thomaz Magalhães - Image and sound editing Tothi dos Santos - Sound capture Camila Nunes - Production lead