The Screen Studies Department of AFTRS, in conjunction with 'moves 09' International Festival of Movement on Screen, is delighted to announce a
Free Screening of short dance films from the moves touring collection
Thursday June 18th, 2009, 7pm
AFTRS Main Theatre 130 Bent St, Entertainment Quarter, (formerly Fox Studios) MoorePark, NSW*
Presented by Dr Karen Pearlman, Head of Screen Studies at AFTRS, this hour of "moves09" - highlights includes screendance works from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Spain and Israel.The programme includes classic dance on screen works; personal, dance focused documentaries; animations and more, by turns funny, moving, spectacular and poetic. Plus a special one time only screening of selected short dancefilm works by current AFTRS students (including Catch directed by Martha Goddard and choreographed by Richard James Allen).
This curated collection of shorts (more programme details below) will be screened in the new AFTRS building, state of the art cinema, in the heart of MoorePark easily accessible, free and open to the public!
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The programme includes from classic dance on screen to personal dance focused documentaries or experimental dance films, exploring the different ways and multiple layers of narrative on movement-on-screen works.
My Paper house on Fire
Dir and writer: Sebastien Koch/ 2007/ / 4' / premiere
A lo-fi homage to the craft box accompanies the harmonious title track of artist phon°noir.
Desires
Dir: Kate Jessop /Writer:Gaia Holmes / Key cast: Anne Marie-Cookson / 2008 / / 2'
A short animation exploring how we hide dreams and desires, lock them away for safe keeping, instead of realising them.
SelfPortrait
Dir and writer: Caroline Cony / Composer: Philip Glass / 2007 / Brasil / 4' / UK Premiere
A woman reveals herself through stop motion animation of photos taken using a pocket mirror.
Requiem for the Redheads
Dir and writer:Lucy Cash / 2008 / / 3'
A funny short about redheads, by a redhead.
Drop Till You Shop
Director: Frederic Pelletier / Co-director: Olivier Tétreault / Writer: Les 7 doigts de la main /Key cast: Guillaume Biron / 2008 / / 6’
Acrobats meets bookworms in this comedic dance short
Remarkable
Dir and Choreographer: Adam Tallon / Writers: Adam Tallon and Sam Meach / Key cast: Mark Jacob / 2008 / / 10'
Personal documentary of a 'Remarkable' B-boy
SonataforanActionMan
Dir and writer: Marta Asparen / 2007 / / 5' / première
Action dance for plastic muscles – a toy soldier becomes a dancer.
Seeking You
Dir: Jean-Julien Pous / Composer: Georges Bizet / 2008 / / 3'
A man lost his love. He decides to go out and find her in the night of Hong Kong, only to realise that it's not with her he's in love, but with the city itself.
AfterDürer
Dir: Daniel Belton / Writers: Daniel Belton, Martin Lodge / Keycast: Martin Lodge, Donnie Harrison / 2007 / / 7' / Premiere
A contemporary film interpretation of the German Renaissance master's Melencholia I.
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