 Physical TV: Dance Film
(PhysicalTV YouTube Channel)
The Physical TV Company is Australia's premier company for the production and distribution of dance film, screendance, video dance, or dance for the camera, as well as being a leading provider of innovative choreography for music videos, musicals, new and transmedia projects. Artistic Directors Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman make "stories told by the body". Their award-winning shorts, feature films and new media projects combine the finest filmmakers, crews and production values with dance, dancers and ideas about making moving pictures that move. Bringing together the spiritual, physical and technological, thought-provoking, engaging and rich in rhythms and images, Physical TV's award-winning physical films regularly screen nationally and internationally at film festivals and on television, and can be viewed on The Physical TV Channel on YouTube.
"Their choreography has predominantly been an exploration of the human condition using the medium of film and video. The content is often playful and light-hearted, but by no means lightweight, and is always delivered with enormous passion and conviction." Chrissie Parrott, dancewest magazine.
 Thursday’s Fictions -
Winner - Enhance TV Atom Award
for Best Experimental Production
"a work of genius" Eye for Film
Broadcast last on ABC1 - write your comments at the ABC Arts Blog
SCREENED LAST at SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL on June 5, 2010
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LATEST NEWS from Physical TV, including:
Awards and Accolades:
Screenings:
- Thursday's Fictions and Down Time Jaz screened at the Singapore Arts Festival on June 5, 2010. Director/Choreographer Richard James Allen attended the screening and gave a Masterclass in dance film, focusing on the nexus between direction and choreography, with particular reference to new technology and spirituality.
- Forthcoming screenings of Physical TV's mixed reality dance film Entanglement Theory include: in competition Cinema D’Arte at the Festival Internazionale Del Cinema D’Arte in Bergamo, Italy from 16 to 24 July 2010; at the Museum of Fine Arts in Fort Worth, Texas, from July 10 to 25, 2010; at Wallpaper Dance in Trieste, Italy between August 21 and September 12, 2010; at montage 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2010; and at InShadow International festival of video, performance and technologiesl in Lisbon, Portugal, between December 7 and 10, 2010.
- Entanglement Theory has been acquired for four broadcasts on ABC TV in Australia.
- Entanglement Theory first screened at III Mostra Internacional de Videodança de São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 2009; and shortly thereafter at DANSCAMDANSE 2009, Ghent, Belgium, between November 26 and 27; 2009. The 35mm film print of the film, generously supported by Deluxe Australia, was first shown at New York’s Dance on Camera Festival as part of the animation program on Sunday January 31. Further screenings have since taken place at the 9th Annual U-M Dance on Camera Festival in Michigan between February 20 and 21, 2010 and the San Diego/Tijuana DANCEonFILM Festival between February 24 and 27th, both as part of the Dance on Camera Touring Program; at the Loikka Dance Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland, between March 25 and 27, 2010; International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy in France on May 7; at Napolidanza in Italy on May 14 or 15, 2010; and Dungog Film Festival in regional New South Wales, Australia on Saturday May 29, 2010.
- Along with Entanglement Theory , two other Physical TV films screened recently in Brazil - Breathe (Dance Film) and Thursday's Fictions at III Mostra Internacional de Videodança de São Carlos in São Paulo, Brazil in November 2009.
- Breathe (Dance Film)also screened at InShadow, 1º Festival Internacional de Video, Performance e Tecnologias, in Sao Luiz, Brazil
- Identity in Motion: Karen Pearlmanscreened at WOW Film Festival 2009 ~ World of Women, in Sydney, and at Dungog Film Festival country New South Wales between May 27 and 39, 2010.
- Breathe (Dance Film) earlier screened at Cinéma Des Antipodes in Saint Tropez, France and Napolidanza in Naples, Italy.
- Rubberman Accepts The Nobel Prizescreened at Xontakt in Split, Croatia .
- Now, a case study in Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit, screened in 's dança em foco - Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança 2009
- Dr Karen Pearlman presented a free screening of international dance films from the moves touring collection at 7pm on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at AFTRS
- Thursday's Fictions screened at Edinburgh's Dance: Film 09 May 2009, receiving the "highest accolade" from Eye for Film: "At a time when fantasy is generally dumbed-down for Hollywood , it raises the genre back to the inspirational heights of its birthright...The film is a triumph."
- Sleepwalking Music Video screened at SoundKILDA Festival in May 2009
- SOS Music Video screened in the "Under the Influence of Busby Berkeley" program at New York 's Dance on Camera Festival January 2009
- Physical TV now has a Channel on YouTube - see what's screening!
Events:
- Dr Richard James Allen will be giving a Masterclass in dance film at the Singapore Arts Festival to coincide with screenings of Thursday's Fictions and Down Time Jaz to screen at the Singapore Arts Festival on June 5, 2010.
- Richard James Allen is currently dancing in Lament of the Argentine Military, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont's new visual art and dance film work for the Biennale of Sydney 2010, to be shown on Cockatto Island from May 12 to August 1, 2010.
- Recent screen culture initiatives from Dr Karen Pearlman's department at AFTRS discussed in RealTime 96.
- Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Dr Richard James Allen lead a Bush Yoga Retreat with Mardi Kendall from Friday April 16 to Sunday April 18, 2010. His previous retreat was described by a participant as "simply fantastic...a wonderful experience".
- Dr Karen Pearlman, one of the judges of the World of Women (WOW) Festival, spoke at the awards night and chaired a panel on 'The Director's Vision through the eyes of the cinematographer'.
- Dr Karen Pearlman participated in a discussion on Bruce Beresford's new film, Mao's Last Dancer, on ABC Radio National's Australia Talks Movies: Dance in film on October 6, 2009.
- Dr Richard James Allen and Dr Karen Pearlman presented work-in-progress screenings and discussions of their latest mixed reality research, Entanglement Theory, in Sydney at Dance Shed on April 19 and at the SEAM Symposium 2009 Spatial Phases at Critical Path on September 19, and in Melbourne at the time.transcendence.performance Conference at Monash University on October 2, 2009.
- Over a hundred people attended the Book Launch of Dr Karen Pearlman's new book, Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit, on May 14, 2009, at AFTRS. Cutting Rhythms is now available in all good bookstores or order it online
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- Dr Karen Pearlman introduced Dziga Vertov's classic Man wiht a Movie Camera at Australia's Silent Film Festivall 2009 on Sunday October 25.
Opportunities:
- Are you a dancer or an actor? Would you like to audition for a music video or a dance film? - To be added to The Physical TV Company Auditions Email Sendout List - Please email your name, contact details, small size photos and CV, specifying whether you are a Dancer and/or an Actor
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Recently Completed Projects:
- Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman and Gary Hayes' mixed reality dance film, Entanglement Theory
Currently in Post Production:
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