FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Quiet!!! Edition
(February 2022)
Although small and quiet the meaning may be deep and resonant. We believe there is value in the understated movement story, directing our attention to an undercurrent of intent and drama. Join Rogue Dancer in visiting Quiet!!! DANCE Films this month.
February 18 - March 6th, 2022
Your Playbill
resort
film by Yuri Yamamura JAPAN
A minimalist circus that connects two human bodies and the afterimage of 24 balls, resort is a short video piece that emerged from a collaboration between Juggling Dance Studio tasse, Kentaro Yoshida, and Cyg art gallery.
Yuri Yamamura - Director
Juggling Dance Studio tasse - Producer
Blue
film by Sofia Monzerratt (c) 2020 USA
Projecting melodies through physical expression: Our bodies have the gift to incarnate visual representations of frequencies and emotions. In order to share and express rhythms with each other we must discover and embrace our own inner rhythm first. Sofia Monzerratt - Director & Producer Dancers - Sofia Subero, Lian Kizner, Idania Quezada & Steven Prescod
The Wait Room
Film by Austin Forbord (c) 2019 USA
“The Wait Room” is designed to reflect upon and bear artistic witness to the experience of women with incarcerated loved ones. Embedded within the piece are ruminations on how these women suffer and overcome, how their lives are disrupted, their relationships challenged, their bodies policed. The film enacts metaphorical strategies for responding to the literal and figurative walls erected between these women and their loved ones. The dancers’ bodies register how the prison industrial complex has a reach that extends far beyond the prison bars.” Austin Forbord - Director & Producer Jo Kreiter - Writer & Producer
INBOUND
film by John Malashock & Kyle Sorensen (c) 2020 USA
A dance trio comprised of three isolated solos John Malashock - Director Kyle Sorensen - Director Malashock Dance - Producer Christine Marshall - Dancer
Waiting Monologue
film by Jarl Anders Hjelle & Hedda Faroy Lausund (c) 2020 NORWAY
Waiting Monologue (2020) is a choreographic short film, created in collaboration between choreographer and dancer Hedda Faroy Lausund and cinematographer and editor Jarl Anders Hjelle. The film was developed to a great extent through improvisation and experimentation both in the choreographic and the cinematographic work and with a focus on site-specific principles. Through movement, music, visual effects, and composition it tackles themes such as the relationship to one's self and solitude. The choreographic language is highly influenced by gestural movement, ranging from the quotidian to the highly dramatic and absurd. Jarl Anders Hjelle - Director, Producer & Editor Hedda Faroy Lausund - Director, Producer, Choreographer, Soundtrack & Dancer Christian Wallumrød Ensemble - Soundtrack Chavela Vargas - Soundtrack
Seize
film by Sophie Valcourt (c) 2019 CANADA
Exploring the obsessive, compulsive and competitive side of folkloric dance, Seize deconstructs the imperfect, enchantress and festive image of Quebec's folklore. Jiggers transmit their passionate haunt for this art through the synchronism of mouvement, concomitant, rhythms and tangible coincidences. Sophie Valcourt - Director & Writer Dancers - Rachel Carignan, Marianne Valcourt & Louis Royt Andrés Solis - Direction of photography
INTIMATE
film by Alexander Gruenwald (c) 2021 GERMANY
In “INTIMATE” you see a man, alone in a room, forgotten and yet completely to himself. Motivated by the sensitive music, he plays with light and space and gives himself over to movement - sometimes highly dynamic, sometimes very carefully. Without further outside influences. Alexander Gruenwald - Director & Producer Johannes Blattner - Dancer Bruno Spieth - Camera Alexander Gruenwald - Music composing Nik Reiff - Recording / Mixing
papa y yoyo
fim by Jorge Luna USA
Jorge Luna - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer
PAris - Qui vivra verra
film by Glen MacKay (c) 2020 FRANCE
Join us for a journey around Paris through movement and recollections. 'pAris' is A dance film in honour of this city. Glen MacKay - Director, Writer & Producer Mia Bourhis - Dancer
liminal
film by Daina Block (c) 2020 USA
Daina Block created this film in the summer of 2020 with strong thematic influences brought on by the pandemic. Isolation, social distance, and touch are concepts explored to accentuate potential human responses towards the world's context. Liminal is a film for viewers to stand in solidarity with others. It bridges a context without borders to leave the viewer contemplating the diversity of the human condition. Using nuanced actions and an ambient sound score, this is an intimate insight into an enduring time. Daina Block - Director, Producer & Dancer
Out of Time
film by Penny Chivas & Alan Paterson (c) 2021 UK
June 2020. All our normal reference points are gone. Disorientation. Thinking changes, patterns slip by, can any new possibilities emerge? A dancer moves as if slipping between the past and the future. Reflecting on expectations and loss, a moment for transition opens up. Committing to the uncertainty, change is embraced. Penny Chivas - Director & Dancer Alan Paterson - Director David Bowes - Key Cast
Walk [It Off]
film by Jennifer Kuhnberg (c) 2021 USA
Dancers, confined to their beds, explore the physical limitations, emotional anguish and social isolation that comes with managing chronic illness. Jennifer Kuhnberg - Choreographer & Dancer Nicole Zizzi - Editor OnStage Dance Company - Producer Dancers - Heather Cuoco, Emily Delia, Elizabeth Drinkwater, Teresa Fardella, Mykayla Marcelino, Sandra O'Donnell & Danielle Onorio
BEYOND
film by Simone Wierød (c) 2020 DENMARK
BEYOND is the aesthetic response to one of humankind’s current strategies to handle a global pandemic. Removing oneself from civilization and detaching from whatever does not serve us anymore. Exploring new truths and roads to inner peace seem to be the only way to rise above collective anxiety. The film presents a number of absurd and surreal tableaus - a human beings’ awkward attempts on connecting with nature to only find herself more alienated than before. The lack of movement, the abstract non-moving dance, creates an interaction between inner and external motions. Like someone said: When you cannot go outside – go inside. Simone Wierød - Director Tim Panduro - Cinematography Christina Dyekjær - Dancer M€RCY - Sound
Left Behind
film by Monika Koeck (c) 2009 UK
LEFT BEHIND is an emotional portrait of Liverpool's famous Tobacco Warehouse (1901); a grade II listed building that is considered being the largest brick building in the world. Today, the industrial warehouse lies empty in a vast and abandoned dock landscape. The expressive space portrayed in the film is inhabited by an enigmatic figure that, in terms of its scale and appearance, seems to live in a symbiosis with the building and its site. LEFT BEHIND offers a mysterious "vision" of a warehouse that is today a "shadow of itself". The short film circles around the themes of presence/absence, empty landscapes, beauty/grace and, by demonstrating that the site is not as "left behind" as perhaps thought, offers a hopeful glimpse into the future of its development. Monika Koeck - Director, Producer & Dancer
High Winds & Slippery Surfaces
film by Pernille Spence, Corinna Jola & Zoë Irvine (c) 2021 UK
In High Winds & Slippery Surfaces a fleeting body fights to maintain control of their movement as they find themselves in an unstable and unpredictable environment. The film experiments with the friction between physical action, sound and space to awaken the kinaesthetic sense of the viewer. Repeated disruption in the flow of action and sound together with the abrupt changes between involuntary and choreographed movements creates a dark, unsettling viewing experience as the sonically immersive environment takes the viewer beyond the screen supporting a greater sense of awareness of the space surrounding them. High Winds & Slippery Surfaces was a 'One Minute' commission by GOAT media and Screen.dance. Pernille Spence - Director Corinne Jola - Director Zoë Irvine - Director
Caboom 22- Gossip
film by Sebastian Weber (c) 2018 GERMANY
Sebastian Weber Dance Company combines gestures, dance and body percussion in a charming living room showpiece. Sebastian Weber - Director & Producer Sebastian Weber Dance Company - Producer Dancers - Andrea Alvergue, Helen Duffy, Janne Eraker, Nik Kemeny, & Sebastian Weber