January 7, 2008

Reminder: Kinetic Cinema/Dance On Camera Festival screening tonight!

Just a friendly reminder about the Dance On Camera Festival screening tonight curated by yours truly for Kinetic Cinema at Collective:Unconscious at 7:30pm.

Featuring seven fantastic international shorts including Feist's music video "1234" choreographed by Noémie LaFrance, Charlotte Griffin's sexy "Raven Study", and Victoria Marks' political duet "Not About Iraq," you're sure to find something to get excited about in this program.

Don't get left out! Make your reservation now before this underground, hipster hole-in-the-wall sells out!

Details:
Kinetic Cinema - 2008 Dance On Camera Festival Shorts Program
Monday January 7th 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month thereafter)
$5 admission

@ Collective:Unconscious
279 Church Street (just south of White Street)
New York, NY 10013
Trains: A to Canal or 1 to Franklin
www.weird.org
TICKETS: 212.352.3101
VENUE:212.254.5277

Program descriptions:
FEIST - "1234"
Patrick Daughters, USA, 2007, 3.14min
Noémie LaFrance, known for making large-scale site-specific performances, choreographed this award-winning music video for the artist Feist with 45 dancers and a roving camera. (To be introduced by the choreographer)


BLUE
Elif Isikozlu, Canada, 2006,3m
There is a moment when you have neither left the place you're in nor entered the one you're going to. It is the moment just before you play your first note, just before you walk out on stage, just before you tell someone you don't love them anymore. Balanced on the brink, "betwixt and between", BLUE takes place within this moment, within the threshold between silence and sound.



RAVEN STUDY
Charlotte Griffin, USA, 2007, 4:30m
Animated images bookend this abstract fusion of dance and new music capturing the spirit of the Raven within a sleek cinematic canvas. (To be introduced by the director)



ANIMALZ
Sergio Cruz, England, 2006, 3m
A crew of urban B-boys from Brighton go feral in the city's surrounding natural landscapes. The piece was co-choreographed by Strictly Dance Fever's JP Omari with a group of 8-14 year-old dancers.

PANORAMA ROMA
Anna de Manincor, Italy, 2005, 12m
Produced by the artists collective, ZimmerFrei, Panorama Roma is a crossing of performance, visual arts and cinema (reminiscent of the earliest panoramas by Lumiére, Edison, and Alber Khan). A 12 hour performance took place in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome and was recorded by two rotating video cameras. In this naturally elliptic set the camera, as if it were a watch, completes a 360° round in 60 minutes. The resulting footage was compressed 20 times to obtain one hour visible in three minutes. The performers, moving in slow motion, were placed amongst the passersby to depict a parallel world taking place in a different time scale.

PLANT
Olive Bieringa, USA, 2007, 10m
A visceral, painterly and sometimes humorous hallucination amidst the ruins of an abandoned bomb factory in Minnesota produced by the Body Cartography Project. The music consists of found sounds like a bullet rolling across broken cement,  while three men engage in acts of quiet violence, and noisy interaction.

NOT ABOUT IRAQ
Victoria Marks and David Soll, USA, 2007, 12m
"Not About Iraq" questions the relationship between words and experience, government rhetoric and reality. Can dance be a force for social change? Seeking to reconcile civic and artistic engagement, Victoria Marks explores how dance can conjure meaning and action through metaphoric interpretation. 
Posted by Anna Brady Nuse on January 7, 2008 12:18 AM

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