FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: URBAN View Edition (June 2021)
June 25 - July 11th
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Moving Barcelona
film by Jevan Chowdhury & Laura Obiols (c) 2021 UK & SPAIN
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its past and despite much progress, it finds itself unearthing old wounds. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, who appeals for calm, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay. The movement of the city however tells a different story, and he is resigned to the fact that things inevitably, are the way they are. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill to nowhere in a tale of modern day life. Moving Barcelona is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based film-maker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.
Jevan Chowdhury - Director, Writer, Editor & DOP
Laura Obiols - Co-Director
Kevin Matley - Composer
Pep Munné - Narrator
Catherine Allard - Executive Producer
Antoni Gutiérez-Rubí - Executive Producer
Alberto Balazs - Camera Assistant
IT Dansa - Cast
La Veronal - Cast
Secret City
film by Astero Styliani Lamprinou (c) 2020 GREECE
Celeste and Terrestre, try to find each other during a quick passage in the city of Brussels. Due to their inexplicable capacity to see the past they discover the transformation of several sites through a comparison with old postcards of the city from the early 1900s. During their fantastic journey, they are treating the city of Brussels as an enormous stage set and they cross exteriors and interiors to end up together in a futuristic utopia of colorful plastics of the 1950s ‘60s and ‘70s, the Brussels Design Museum.
Astero
Styliani Lamprinou - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
Ana Cembrero Coca - Dancer
Oliver Imfeld - Camera
Yorgos Lamprinos - Editing
Wrecked Pulse
(c) 2018 film by Peder Nilsson & Madeleine Månsson SWEDEN
A short contemporary dance film in an old water tower in Malmö, Sweden.
A snippet of a relationship.
Attempts has been made to find balance between man and woman choreographically by highlighting different strengths and weaknesses. The relationship represents the feeling of a situation with someone or by yourself. A situation that demands a change. There are physical differencies between the two dancers. The prerequisites for their dancing are not explained or problematized. They are used.
Skånes Dansteater, Malmö, Sweden - Producer
Pelle Hybbinette - Director of photography, editing & sound
Madeleine Månsson - Choreographers/ Dancers
Peder Nilsson - Choreographers/ Dancers
Gert Østergaard Pedersen - Music
VIRUS
film by Nauris Buksevics (c) 2020 UK
A group of professional contemporary arts dancers take the streets of London, just hours before the lock-down to display, interpret and perform, what turned out later to be the last time in a long time, the upcoming global as well as local uncertainty at the time of COVID-19 pandemic.
Nauris Buksevics - Director, writer, producer
Chris Milbourne - Producer
Antonello Sangirardi - Producer & Dancer
Callum Brown - Producer
Max Day - Dancer
Alexandre Bourdat - Dancer
Océane Robin - Dancer
Miguel Altunaga Jr. - Dancer
Breath | Light | Stone
film by Allen Hahn, Ryan Newman & Elizabeth Shea (c) 2017 USA
The grand architecture and dappled light of an abandoned limestone mill set the stage for stone and steel and flesh and bone to become one, breathing life and beauty into decay and uncovering distant memories.
Allen Hahn - Director, Production & Lighting Design
Ryan Newman - Director
Elizabeth Shea - Director & Choreographer
Venture Production Company - Producer
Dancers - Ryan Galloway, Stephanie Marks, Caitlin Negron, Rachel Newbrough, Jarrett Rashad & Justin Sears-Watson
Jonathan Snipes - Sound & Music
Time Subjectives in Objective Time
film by Kati Kallio (c) 2018 FINLAND
Three persons inside the old factory dances from room to another affirming moment of stagnation in endless time.
Kati Kallio - Director, writer, and producer
Antti Ahokoivu - Writer & Cinematographer
Anna Schekleina - Dancer & Choreographer
Aleksandr Frolov - Dancer & Choreographer
Polina Nertitsa-Pankova - Dancer
In Plain Sight عیان
film by Tanine Torabi IRAN
In Plain Sight is the result of months of exploring urban movements on a boulevard in Tehran, Iran. In a society where many questions and restrictions exist around the concept of ‘movement’, three performers interact with their surroundings and thus become an integral part of the flow of the city. They accompany each other to find the power of collective movement. The journey is the destination.
Tanin Torabi - Director, Writer & Director
Sina Saberi - Producer
Mahsa Akbarabadi - Director
Assistant
Performers - Masoumeh Jalalieh, Tina Beyk Abbasi & Tanin Torabi
Mahsa Abarabadi - Production Manager
Masoud Banafsheh - Cinematography
Farbod Jalali - Colour Grading
Anis Eshraqi - Editor
Quartet with Walls
film by Jordan Fuchs (c) 2020 USA
A Four dancers isolated in time, not knowing the impact of their own actions on others, nonetheless reveal intersections of place, movement, color and sound. Shot in the spring of 2019 and edited in the summer of 2020, Quartet with Walls offers a syncopated dialogue of listening, seeing, touching, sensing, and waiting.
Jordan Fuchs - Director & Editor
Dancers - Daunte Borner, Yeajean
Choi, Leah Estick & Martheya Nygaard
End of the Block
film by Kyle Stevenson & Omari 'Motion' Carter (c) 2013 UK
End of the Block is a film that combines live dance with stickman animation to create a very compelling piece that illustrates the harsh realities of trying to go beyond your postcode...
Kyle Stevenson - Director
Dancers - Lanre Malaolu, Jared Garfield & Duja Sinada Omari 'Motion' Carter - Choreographer, Editor, & Writer Carse and Waterman Productions - Animation
Lee Watson - Editor
Abandoned Spaces
film by Carolyn Rabbers (c) 2020 USA
Escapism as a way to protect socially constructed racism. How do white artists neglect and find safe artist space at the expense of Black communities? This was filmed using an iPhone 8, independently created: directed, produced and edited by CPR Dance.
Carolyn Pampalone Rabbers - Director & Producer
Maria Vettriano - Dancer
SYNC
film by Layla Wei x ScRach MarcS (c) 2021 SINGAPORE
Two intertwined identities explore the tension between the real and artificial, the physical and virtual through movement and dance. The film follows the perspectives of a couple, drawing parallels among the trust-building process between human individual, between programmatic systems, and between men and machines or artificial systems. Their bodily movement evokes the state of tension as well as bonding throughout the process of noticing, connecting, trusting and syncing with each other. Amidst uncertainties in this age of hybrid lives, and this era of technological transformations where we become increasingly intertwined with artificial realities, the film poses the question of what it takes to be really in sync with another identity. Layla Wei - Director & Producer
Victor Gan - Producer
Jeremy Lau - Director of Photography
Dissipate
film by Penny Chivas & Paul Michael Henry (c) 2020 UK
Two people meet on a platform attempting to rewrite their pasts. Are they here now or have they been here before? Have we already danced these steps? As memory clouds they stumble and jump between movements forgetful of the details that once held everything together. Nothing left but a hazy memory dissipating in the breeze.
Penny Chivas - Director & Dancer
Paul Michael Henry - Director, Writer, Producer, Music & Dancer
Biba
film by Jody Oberfelder (c) 2019 USA
a short portrait Biba Bell - Dancer
The Bridge
film by Ulises A Morales (c) 2021 SPAIN
The bridge, symbol of the universal understanding of traffic and the search for connections. It is the premise and title of this piece that proposes an open dialogue with the viewer (a passage) through our bridge concept.
Ulises A Morales - Director, writer, D.O.P, and editor
Barbara Marín Herrera - Producer
Juanjo Torres - Dancer
Tiago Herbert - VFX
Daniel Mendoza - Sound
Belen A Doreste - Composer
The Breakup
film by Lucila Brindisi (c) ARGENTINA
Short dance video.
Lucila Brindisi - Director
Eliana Fuino - Producer
Erik Ferreya - Dancer
Fiorella Gimenez - Dancer
A Guide To Breathing Underwater
film by Raven M. Jackson & Donald C. Shorter Jr. (c) 2018 USA
A Guide to Breathing Underwater follows a person’s quest to find solace in his body. Using dance and gesture, shadow and light, we see him traverse through New York City, looking for his utopia. When he finds an open space overflowing with air and water: an exhale. Finally, he can be still.
Donald C. Shorter - Concept & Performance
Raven Jackson - Direction
Felipe Vara de Rey - Cinematography & Edit