FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: The Future
(October 2023)
Dancing into the future… What is it going to look like? Dance meditations with a futuristic feel.
October 20 – November 5, 2023
«»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
Future
film by Eva Campos Suárez (c) 2014 SPAIN
Future is the dance interpretation of first verse of "The three oddest words" poem written by polish Wisława Szymborska (Nobel Prize in Literature 1996).
In a romantic world where the woman is at home just making some tea.
Eva Campos Suárez - Director, Camera, editing and color
Marta Kosieradzka - Concept & Choreography
Inez Verhille - Dancer
Adriano Fontana - Music
Special thanks - Marie-Louise Wilderijckx, P.A.R.T.S. Summer School & i-fitness Antwerpen
Wisława Szymborska Foundation - Permission rights poem
4~
film by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (c) 2018 CANADA
4 ~ is an exploration of a world initially marked by precision of movement and lack of emotion. Set in a minimalist world devoid of life 4 ~ unfolds through contemporary dance, unsettling sounds and surreal visuals.
Rodrigo Rocha-Campos - Director, Writer & Producer
Dancers - Felicia Lau, Erika Mitsuhashi, Mahaila Patterson O'Brien & Linnea Gwiazda
Will Meadows - Composer
Arlein Wharf-Garcia - Editor
Robert Riendeau - Director of Photography
Jessica Kish - Production Designer
Farouche Collective - Choreography
Seuls Ensemble
film by Jennifer Scully-Thurston (c) 2018 USA
"A girl meets boy story. We sit with two strangers in extreme circumstances and follow them through the emotional journey of getting to know each other professionally falling in LIKE then in LOVE. We leave the audience to pontificate about the great unknown adventure ahead.
Jennifer Scully-Thurston - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Christopher Scully-Thurston - Sound Design and Dancer
Dustin Travis Glasco - Editor
La tête dans les étoiles
film by Timo Paris (c) 2022 SWITZERLAND
The work is characterized by a subjective approach to multimedia perception in the sense of the zeitgeist, in which our body image gains a central role in the creation of individual myths and gains enormous power. The experience of being a physical body in the world is very different from the visual impression we create for external observation. In the moment we act with our body, there is a translation of physical experience into a visual language. This parallelism is inherent in our being. It encourages the dialogue between the experiencing self, which is influenced by physical experience, and the narrative self, which is heavily influenced by our visual abilities. I use this parallelism as an artistic principle and explore the figurative potential for transformation using cross-media processes.
In a residency at the Sutra House, I explore the space; in direct contact with architecture, in meditation, in dreams and in the virtual dimension. Using dance and movement as well as digital image generation, the body and architecture enter into a symbiotic, almost parasitic relationship. The body’s boundaries dissolve and merge with space and time to form a new rhythmic structure. Dizzying convulsive movement of the body and the gaze of distant realities intertwine and generate a strange labyrinth in which this world seems to be transposed into a dream world. Mystery, tension and the unsolved are in search of the magical precision of equilibria.
Sound material is created in the balance, sound and image combined with analog and digital technologies. A cycle regulates itself, feedback and magnetic fields made audible create sound surfaces. Original sound contrasts with elec- tronic hum, tape noises, voices, air noises, doubler effects and light glissandi. The composed sounds swing back and forth between modified, extended and rotating loudspeakers. Invisible structures of the room feel the world, a spectral communication takes place.
Timo Paris - Director
Max ZachrisonKey Cast - Camera & Edit
Janiv Oron - Dancer
VITA TTK
film by Mimi Garrard (c) 2023 USA
"Vita TTK" is a dance created for video directed by Mimi Garrard and featuring the dancers Tim Bendernagel and Kate Jewett, the composer Tom Hamilton, and the costumer Mindy Nelson.
Mimi Garrard - Director, Writer & Producer
Kate Jewett - Dancer
Tim Bendernagel - Dancer
Tom Hamilton - music
Mindy Nelson - costume
With/In
Film by John Dixon (c) 2023 USA
One woman finds herself unfolding into fleeting interactions that careen beyond her imagination; a thousand images of self and other caught in drops and waves and reflected light.
John Dixon - Director
Antye Greie - Composers
Ran Bagno - Composers
itsy bitsy
Film by Kusanagi Sisters (c) 2015 JAPAN
According to research, there are 9 different types of intelligence; naturalistic, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, interpersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, intra-personal, and spatial. Kusanagi Sisters question alternative types of intelligence not previously defined.
JuJu Kusanagi - Director, Writer, Dancer & Editor
Lisa Kusanagi - Director, Writer, Dancer, Producer & Production Design
Annisa Amalia - Director of Photography
Maxwell Transue - Composer
Tony Denove - Composer
Way Out
film by Sacha Djordjevic (c) 2023 NETHERLANDS
“Way Out” is a dance movie short about finding a way forward when challenging moments in life happen.
How do we bounce back and find our footing when our world falls out of balance?
Where is the way out?
Sacha Djordjevic - Director, Writer & Producer
Kristen Joy Hollinsworth - Dancer
Igor Djordjevic - Music
SPECIMEN
film by Didier Mulleras (c) 2023 FRANCE
"To date, and notwithstanding the meticulous research carried out by the team dispatched to the site, there is unfortunately only a slim chance of finding the specimen, which recently escaped from the laboratory. This situation remains worrying given its danger, which obviously plunges worldwide scientific community into a stir tinged with amazement. In short, they are looking..."
Didier MULLERAS - Director
Dancers - Nastasya Renard, Eleonore Raviscioni, Anne Artuères, Domy Carlesso & Chantal Vidal Herrera
Didier MULLERAS - original Music
Bury the Light
film by The Bipeds, Alex Maness & Jim Haverkamp (c) 2020 USA
Victorian death rituals and creepy graveyards undergird this psychedelic music/dance film from multimedia troupe The Bipeds of Durham, North Carolina
Curtis Eller - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Jim Haverkamp - Director
Alex Maness - Director
Stacy Wolfson - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Dancers - Jessi Knight, William Commander, Michael Rank & Tatiana Phillips
LEGACY
film by Lamara Sogomonian (c) 2023 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
LAMARA SOGOMONIAN - Director
ILYA BOYKO - DOP
Amygdala
film by Han Myers (c) 2023 UK
A surrealist film that immerses viewers through the ear canal and into the depths of the human brain. Exploring themes of hearing, listening, and monotony, this film challenges our perception and understanding of reality.
Han Myers - Director
Chi-Hsuan Lin - Performer
Katrine Aziz - Composer
Call of the Cranes
film by Vilma Tihilä (c) 2023 FINLAND
People walking in the forest hear a call of the cranes and gather in a field.
Kurkien Kutsu (Call of the Cranes) has been made in collaboration with the elderly people in “Memory Gang” of The Alzheimer Association of Kanta-Häme. The starting point of the work was an interest in creating a sequel to the dance film Kurki (Crane), which the participants saw during Myrskyryhmä’s film moment.
Vilma Tihilä - Director
Elli Isokoski - Producer
Dancers - Arto Paavola, Eila Pulkkinen, Elisa Saukko, Angeta, Peter & Emma
Teemu Kyytinen - Cinematography & color grade
Samu Kuukka - Editing
Ville Kuukka - Sound Design & Sound recordists
Arttu Salo - Drone filming & Sound recordists
Mervi Leivo - Associate producer
Markku Ilmarinen - Musician
Elli Isokoski - Stunt performer