Down Time Jaz to screen at Best of Cinemoves in Brisbane
directed and edited by Karen Pearlman
produced by Richard James Allen
written and choreographed by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman
a Physical TV Company Production (For more information on Down Time Jaz, click here.)
Ausdance Queensland to present The Best of Cinemoves (program below)
Screening will take place
in the Institute of Modern Art's Screening Room
on Monday 7 May at 6.00pm
and hosted by Rosetta Cook (still to be confirmed).
The screening will be free so there will be no screening fees.
THE BEST OF CINEMOVES (83mins)
CINEMOVES is an ongoing series of forums dedicated to the exhibition and discussion of dance and movement on film. Launched in 2004 and hosted by Sydney Dance Company at its Wharf studios in Sydney, CINEMOVES celebrates the best and latest in dance filmmaking in NSW and Australia. This is a programme of the best NSW-based shorts screened at CINEMOVES in Sydney across 2004-2005, curated by Narelle Benjamin and Erin Brannigan.
RIVER WOMAN (2005: 13min)
An evocative dance film inspired by the rainbow serpent mythology. ‘The serpent journeyed, birthing the rivers, trees, wind, rocks awakening life.’
Director Michelle Mahrer
Choreographers/performers Bernadette Walong, Narelle Benjamin, Brett Daffy, Kristina Chan
DVOID (1995: 3min)
In a featureless land 3 dismayed characters struggle with the containment of video space. An award-winning dance video created for television in collaboration with Alan Schacher and Gravity Feed Performance Group.
Director Michelle Mahrer
Choreographer/performers Gravity Feed
SOLE (2003: 8min)
In this film, the body is a vessel articulated by invisible forces.
Director.choreographer/performer Nalina Wait
SALOMON (2004, 5min)
A narrative tale following a personal journey through time and space.
Director Deborah Kuleff
Choreographer Emily Ireland
Performer Elizabeth Ryan
UNSEEN CORRELATIONS (2003: 7min)
Unseen Correlations is part of a video installation work that challenges the conventional format of narrative, as well as the way the screen is viewed. It presents an aural and visual representation of a kinaesthetic awareness of the body moving through space. This relationship between the body and space is explored by capturing the dancing body, using different filmic techniques, to represent the kinaesphere of the dancer’s movement.
Director Abigail Portwin
Choreographer/performer Nalina Wait
DOWN TIME JAZ (2003, 12min)
A ferris wheel ride through family life from the point of view of the second child who must save the rest of her family from itself.
Director Karen Pearlman
Choreographers Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen
VIVARIUM (1993: 12min)
Vivarium is a short dance film based on a series of movements and images which explore concepts concerning the performance of the female body in film and dance practice. This film expands the boundaries of the dance film form to encompass a rethinking of the presentation of the body in the space of film and of the form of film appropriate to this exploration.
Director Mahalya Middlemist
Choreographer/performer Sue-Ellen Kohler
ARE WE THERE YET (2004: 7min)
Residue of conversations that occur in public spaces.
Travelling through the everyday, three women are confined in their silent urban landscapes
Mapping their internal gesturings.
Agitated by a lens that provokes their imaginings.
Director Peter Volich
Choreographers/Performers The Fondue Set
POTSDAMER (2000: 6min)
A dancer feels his way through a German underground station.
Director Samuel James
Performer/Choreographer Martin del Amo
SECOND THOUGHTS (1997: 5min)
This film evokes that familiar waking moment when lovers become
strangers and the unsaid detonates into fantasy.
Writer/Director/Editor/Producer - Brigid Kitchin
Choreographers/performers Kate Champion and Lee Wilson
CINEMOVES is presented by Sydney Dance Company, ReelDance and One Extra Dance. |
