FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Dance NOIR Edition (November 2021)
COMING SOON - December 5th, 2021
Your Playbill
La Galerie
Film by Loup-William Théberge (c) 2021 CANADA
During a nighttime visit to a museum, an unforeseen connection between a woman and a painting triggers an unexpected journey between the real and the unreal. Loup-William Théberge - Director & Editor Olivier Lépine - Writer Sophie Dubé - Producer Dancers - Pauline Bonanni, Adam Strom, Antoine Morin & Connor Patrick Houlihan Felippe - Cinematographer Jérôme Boiteau - Sound Fredéric Lebrasseur - Music Géraldine Rondeau - Artistic Director
F lock
Film by Gemma Crowe (c) 2017 CANADA
The bolsters, rivalries and the complex connectedness we all navigate as social beings is evident, but Flock’s unique perspective allows us to see beyond the performance. As a relationship between two women is delineated to reveal similarities in our own relationships; it is the fluctuating space between the dancers that is particularly telling. Gemma Crowe - Director, Writer & Producer Marina Robinson - Dancer Sarah Jean Cherniwchan- Dancer Sina Lankarani - Music
Vault
film by Claire Marshall & Pila Wirsu(c) 2020 AUSTRALIA
Vault is a dancefilm exploring memories of spaces formed as a child and later revisited as an adult. In 1983 as a child on a school excursion to The Queensland Museum, (Brisbane, Australia), I became lost from the class and found myself inquisitively exploring the museum, it’s winding staircases, hidden spaces, unique Dinosaur murals, and progressive eclecticism style architecture. I slinked thought the building unbeknownst to the museum staff to eventually find my school class. 30 years later, journeying through the now defunct building as an adult, memories of the people and discoveries I made as a child return. These memories inspire the making of Vault. Claire Marshall - Director, Choreographer, Writer, Producer & Editor Piia Wirsu - Director Dancers - Michelle Barnett, Jake Kuzma & Matthew Overburg Kevin Holloway - Cinematorgrapher J Valenzuela Didi - Score
LOVE or DEATH
film by Marc Studer (c) 2020 SWITZERLAND
There is a fine line between love and death. Is this line walkable via a path of trust and safety? Do freedom and love lead to life and do dependence and fear lead to death? Dance and fight. Marc Studer - Director, DOP & Editing Florian Hafner (NEBKA) - Dancer & Music Catarina Silva - Actress Runners - Jonas Humbel, Michelle Hafner, Sara Abraham & Alexandros Konstandakis
Chain of Circumstances
film by Joseph Klein (c) 2020 USA
Chain of Circumstances, a modular work for solo pianist and solo dancer, explores aspects of recombinance, modularity, and non-linear musical structures. In this regard, the work is conceived as a series of disparate, distinctive, and relatively static musical states that provides an ever-changing sonic canvas, which the pianist(s) may alter at will. In performances that include solo dancer and/or electronics, the result is a kind of dynamic and unpredictable “feedback loop” between the various elements; this fixed video realization of the work was created specifically for the type of remote concert experience that has become common (and necessary) during the current pandemic. Chain of Circumstances was supported by a grant from Texas Woman’s University, and composed in February-March 2020 for pianist Richard Shuster and dancer/choreographer Jordan Fuchs. Joseph Klein - Director, Composer, Audio/Video Editing & Producer Richard Shuster - Pianist Jordan Fuchs - Dancer & Choreographer Dayna Ballenger - Lighting Designer (dance) Danielle Willis - Camera Operator (dance)
DIMMER SWITCH
film by Mary Sue Reese (c) 2020 USA
Anticipation, rituals and what should have been, fade as pandemic-life unfolds. No one has been left behind. In the midst of disappointment, grief, frustration and hurt, a fog settles in and the landscape of home shifts to accommodate a new reality. A coexistence with the unknown seeps both light, darkness and a denial that permeates my daily existence. Shot with an iphone7 | Filmic Pro app | Edited with imovie Mary Sue Reese - Director & Producer Barry Bennett- Sounds
Project 3
fim by Dor Eldar (c) 2020 ISREAL
When body, soul, passion and anxious meet in a place of unrest. Dor Eldar - Creator & Choreographer Daniel Hassine - Creator & Director Shai Lazar - Producer Gall Friedman - Cinematographer Ma'ayan Tilayov - Art Roy Itzhak - Lighting Sean Basad - Styling Maya Blumental - Make Up Artist Omri Roksa - Assistant Cinematographer Dancers - Seymor Daniel, Rom Sacher, Yaeli Ne'emani, Liron Kichler, Adar Riklis, Maya Shaul, Yahel Hayat, Amit Wainer, Niv Elbaz, Shmuel Halfon, Matan Onyame, Itay Lavi & Matan Ben Shimol
I See
film by Arman Partovi (c) 2021 IRAN
"I see" is a fictionalized version adopted from real events of one of the chapters of the life of Iranian filmmaker and actor Arman Partovi in 2020. It is a film with an existentialist tinge, it is about a young man who is going through an existential crisis caused by quarantine. Faced with an unexpected event of forced lockdown, memories and thoughts of the past are present under the shadow of chaos guiding him from darkness to light through meditations on Genesis of the world that allows him to create a poetic dialogue with the Word of God and discover his identity in Him.
Arman Partovi - Director, Actor, Producer, Casting Director & Choreographer
Silma Garcia Marquez - Writer
Reza Partovi - Executive Producer
Mehmet Ömür - Director of photography & Editor
Erick Cuevas - Music
José Luis Tarquino Alcoreza - Colorist
Diego J.L. Tarifa O. - Technical Support
Silma Garcia Marquez - Assistant Director
Jamais Vu
film by Michelle Bernier (c) 2016 USA
All that lives never stays long in one place. It is in constant movement. A gate changes into numerous different forms, and we encounter the roads of this world in many strands. In this journey, we humans carry on our way oscillating in between brightness and darkness, light and shadow, drawing one's track of life in a flowing curve without going against the nature. If we were to say there always exist rows of gates leading one after another as we pass through, we can hardly assert that the end of life is death. This piece intends to depict the never-ending journey and its liminal space experienced in the intervals. Kim Modeun - Director, Writer & Dancer Kim Seongmin - Producer Kim Taehee - Dancer
HOME 23.20
film by Didier Mulleras (c) 2020 FRANCE
a dance portrait of french dancer Magali Viguier, by choreographer and film director Didier Mulleras Didier Mulleras - Director, Producer & Music Magali Viguier - Dancer
SKIN
film by Andrea Mychaels (c) 2017 USA
A video dance that explores vulnerability using movement and natural light. Andrea Mychaels - Director & Producer
Baby Teeth
film by Vince Harttrup CANADA
BABY TEETH witnesses a woman navigating abstracted memories of loss through physical manifestations. Using contemporary dance, the woman explores contrasting landscapes in a dream-like reality of grief. As she invites fragmented memories to the surface, they come to life, allowing her to dance with her recollections. Accompanied by a cello soundscape, BABY TEETH is a glimpse into the journey of making peace with the past, dancing alone with loss, and finding repose in the water. Vince Harttrup - Director & Editor Emma Morris - Writer, Producer, Creative Director & Choreography Marisa Ricci - Dancer Steven Tsinokas - Director of Photography Steven Tsinokas - Colouring Justin Wright - Composer
WHIRLING LADDER . BETWEEN
film by Maurits Boettger, Chun Zhang & YIBU Dance(c) 2021 GERMANY
A screendance, created by choreographer, dancer Chun Zhang and Kai Strathmann, with videographer Maurits Boettger. WHIRLING LADDER | BETWEEN is a dance production from YIBU Dance. It not only shows the compelling interaction of human bodies, but also the indissoluble connection between body and space-time and ultimately between dance and viewer, by interweaving the principles of Chinese martial art--Wing Chun and the geometry of DNA base pairs with artistic precision. Presented by two dancers with 7000 steps on four square meters within 50 minutes, it extracts the modern inter-human relationship and movements especially under the lenses of the pandemic. The movie captures the details of this production with taste and excitement, showing its own character and statement in a clear and minimalist way. Maurits Boettger - Director Chun Zhang - Dancer & Producer Kai Strathmann - Dancer & Producer
Runaway sanity
film by Fang Guan (c) 2021 CHINA
When the body, consciousness, and heart are floating on the edge of loss of control and reason; is the reason itself out of control, or is it looking for reason in the out of control... fang Guan - Director & Writer chunyi Cai - Dancer xiuqi He - Dancer
Shadow
film by Gustavo Lopez Mañas (c) 2017 SPAIN
Gustavo Lopez Mañas - Director Gus&Lo - Producer i+i - Producer Iratxe Ansa - Dancer Igor Bacovich- Dancer
The Backstage
film by Aitor Padilla SPAIN
We perform always. Body as the subject of performance is the most honest matter. We perform especially when someone else is watching. However, the real performance is happening when we are alone, where we are facing ourselves. The shadow is a powerful resource. The backstage is where the real thing is maturing and changing, and this change is the only thing that lasts. Aitor Padilla - Director Alina Sokulska - Writer BravoNippon - Producer
Hat
film by Anna Bauer
Loneliness visits in many forms, including the incorporeal. An immaterial sheet ghost seeks tangibility in a drab bowler hat. Anna Bauer - Director Tori Nunn - Dancer
Lady Be Good
film by James Kinney & Pierre Marais (c) 2021 USA
A bartender reflects on one unforgettable night. James Kinney - Director & Writer Pierre Marais - Director Straighten Your Crown Productions - Producer Dancers - Skye Mattox, Caleb Marshall, Ahmad Simmons, Alex Nordin, Jess LeProtto, Ramone Owens, Nathan Keen & Christian Borle Curtis Shields - Lighting Designer Billy Hipkins - Costumes/Wardrob