FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Demon dance
(OCT 2024)
We are back... with something a little ghoulish yet sophisticated to the spirit of our favorite holiday and in the unique style that only DANCERS and CHOREOGRAPHERS can conjure up.
Confronting our demons and dancing through our personal and global issues this month.What a great way to TREAT yourself with dancefilm, in your favorite costume, while waiting to TRICK the neighborhood girls, ghosties and cuties.
PAUSE… I hear a knock at my door…
Coming Soon
Oct. 25 – Nov. 10, 2024
«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance
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«»dance for the camera», «video dance», «cine dance», «screendance», – may seem somewhat interchangeable, they are, in actuality, quite specific. Each term speaks to a particular combination of performance and materiality, and each sites the dual properties of their hybridized identities in an order that signifies the relative importance of the parts.” - Douglas Rosenberg, Screendance ☯☯☯
“We think the only way to change the worlds is through ART & we appreciate our audiences more than you know. Thank you for experiencing the DANCE with us, please enjoy this month’s event!
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— Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Rogue Dancer Creator & Curator
Your Playbill
Quarce Upon a Time
film by Tommy Pascal (c) 2024 FRANCE
She never cries. She never smiles. She never dies. After centuries buried under the ground, Christina lives again. And what if she would tell her story herself this time ?
This is now quarce upon a time !
Quarce Upon A Time is the fruit of a collaboration in between dancer Mikaela Kelly, filmmaker Tommy Pascal and sound artist Nicolas Perret. Drawing inspiration from the universe of Mikaela Kelly and recent work from Historian Sylvain Piron, the film opens new perspectives on the life of an eccentric and highly influential figure of the Middle Ages, holy-woman Christina the Astonishing.
Tommy PASCAL - Director
Nicolas PERRET - Writer
Tommy PASCAL - Producer
Mikaella KELLY - Dancer
AMO - Music composer
BIRDHAUS
film by Camila Serrano (c) 2023 UK
Birdwatching is the best way to connect with nature in the city. What can we learn from nature but also, what is the natural world learning from us? Combining the aesthetics of the Bauhaus art movement and nature mockumentary, this quirky film questions who is watching who.
Camila Serrano - Director
Chan "Maggie" Tin Lok - Dancer
Jon Rodd - Dancer
Florence Meredith - Costume Design
Bartosz Szafrański - Composer
MIHI At the center of our gaze
film by Durand-Gasselin Cyril (c) 2024 FRANCE
Introspection is a mental activity which can be described metaphorically as the act of “looking inside” oneself, through a form of attention paid to one's own sensations, states or thoughts. In psychology, this is the inner knowledge we have of our perceptions, actions, emotions and knowledge, which is different from that which an outside observer might have.
Cyril Durand-Gasselin - Director, screenwriter, choreographer & dancer
Melvyn Marsallon - Assistant directors
Angela Tullio Cataldo - Assistant directors
Séverine Pézeron - Co-screenwriter, co-choreographer & dancer
Julia Rieder - Co-choreographer & dancer
David Cabannes - Director of photography
Gauthier Brunner - Camera assistants & gaffers
Marion Rivière - Camera assistants & gaffers
Sarah PaquotSet photography
Adeline Quinet - Set photography
Eric Durand-Gasselin - Stage managers
Melvyn MarsallonStage managers
Ljubica Markovic - Costume & props designer
Patricia Dournaux - Seamstress
Tiphaine Rouxel - Make-up artists & hairdressers
Emilien Hogge - Make-up artists & hairdressers
Séverine Pézeron - Assistant make-up artists
Adeline Quinet - Assistant make-up artists
Yrian Charpentier - Set designer
Cyril Durand-Gasselin - Art director & editor
Séverine Pézeron - Assistant editor
Gauthier Brunner - Calibrator
Maïwenn Bramoullé - Community manager & graphic designer
Compagnie Nos - Producer
TEM PO RA RY
film by Anna Guseva (c) 2024 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In the nature of ever-changing times there are certain places gifted with an ability to capture moments, to keep memories of those who used to exist within those walls hundred, or sixty, or thirty years ago. Inside the walls of Dom Radio (House of Radio) the protagonist paves her way through multiple periods in the history of the building (1914 – 1998), and so she meets ghosts of the past during this journey. Due to different and often difficult circumstances the same people were forced to change their behaviour and the way they look.
Severe times when mercy leaves our world give birth to darkness even among the kindest people, yet after all changes and alterations a human is still a human, staying itself as always has been. The protagonist falls out of space where no time exists to navigate through past in order to bind different time layers together. From the fall to the fight, from the run to the blue, from everyday brawls to limbo space of love.
In the end the heroine encounters multiple versions of herself and thus she finds the fullness of existence. The dance is over in order to begin again.
Where Once There Was Water
film by Mike Tyus (c) 2023 USA
Where Once There Was Water is a film with cinematography by Brandon Lazo of Kings and Priests Media, Choreography and Direction by Mike Tyus and Luca Renzi, and produced by, as well as featuring dancers of, The Rosin Box Project. Created for stage and film adaptation which premiered live in San Diego in August of 2023.
Mike Tyus - Director
Carly Topazio - Producer
The Rosin Box Project - Producer
Luca Renzi - Director of Photography
Brandon Lazo - Steadicam
Taylor Stewart - First AC
Dancers - Chelsea Fenner, Bethany Green, Brian Heil, Rony Lenis, Katie Spagnoletti, Jeremy Zapanta & Carly Topazio
The Response
film by Penny Chivas (c) 2024 UK
In a deep dark remote loch, what secrets lie beneath the surface?
Someone is determined to find out.
In this tartan-scandi-noir screendance, a lone investigator searches what remains, what passes with time, seeking to grasp the unknowable, feeling its pervading presence.
Moving across time, one dancer seeks to understand a situation that maybe never have existed. 'The Response' asks how we understand what we know when feelings and fact collide, when both take over our minds.
Penny Chivas - Director & Dancer
Alan Paterson - Director
1986
film by Didier Mulleras (c) 2022 FRANCE
Time capsule. 1986. Nothing has changed. The walls, the room, almost empty. Party is over, for years now. Vibrations seem to float, sensations of bodies dancing, again and again. Sub-bass, haunting the silence. Frankie says "Relax".
Bleach
film by Caleb Soon (c) 2023 USA
A young man in his mid 20's, who is on the losing side of his battle with depression, gradually falls deeper into dejection, while further isolating himself from any outside help that may pull him back. Trying to keep track of the shift between the days and nights becomes increasingly inconsequential, as his ability to distinguish reality wanes.
Lapsúlyos || Certain Solitude
film by Bernadett Jobbágy (c) 2023 HUNGARY
Being in a gym.
Running on a treadmill.
Letting the perception shift, in which shift you may notice the choreography of the space around.
Being inspired by the persistence of muscles, by the body-fluids, the sweat, and the skin, the film oscillates between "everyday movement" and "dance". Contemplation and action. Contemplation in action. Sensing and feeling the space. Touching the space.
Bernadett Jobbágy - Director, Producer & Editor
Dániel Herner - Producer
Dancers - Attila Dániel, Attila Horváth, Rebeka Petra Kiss, Emese Kovács, Henrietta Sudár & Zsófi Szász
Dániel Szandtner - Camera
Zsolt Magyari - Camera
Ambrus Kertész - Technician
Rozi Mákó - Original music
Viktor Borbély - Coloring
Péter Murvai - Production assistant
Lake of Dreams
film by Axel Warner (c) 2023 GERMANY
“Like water, desire always finds its way“
A young man suffers from the fixed idea of his dream woman. He tears himself away from his demons and heads towards his vision with the boundless power of desire.
Axel Werner - Director, Writer, Composer & Producer
Dancers - Melissa Chapski & Sava Milojevic
Ralf Schweinböck - Director of Photography
The Intruder
film by Guillaume Herment-Berrebi (c) 2024 FRANCE
in departures, break-ups, or death, aren't we always intruders for a moment? Perhaps, then, it's in reconnecting with the possibilities of our bodies and their own intensity that we'll return to presence
Guillaume Herment-Berrebi - Director, Writer & Producer
Dancer - Elsy Robert, Samuel Famechon, Adam Fontaine, Samuel Planas & Eline Larorry
Voilà A Short Dance
film by Aman Mehra (c) 2024 UK
The mind of an artist cannot be extinguished by the mundane.
Voilà is a short dance film produced by Hippogryph Films, starring dancer and choreographer Leigh Shaked (also seen in Play in a Day on Sky Arts and Cinderella Games short film by English National Ballet).
Aman Mehra - Director, Writer, Producer, DOP and Editor
Leigh Shaked - Writer, Choreographer & Dancer
Hippogryph Films - Producer
Rory Heaton - Assistant Director
PATREON ONLY
Recueil
film by Philippe Neunier (c) 2023 CANADA
Inspired by shindigs from a forgotten era, Recueil is a toast to the future of Quebec's cultural identity, building itself anew as quickly as individuals reinvent themselves.
Philippe Meunier - Director