BIDFF 2021
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL, THE 7TH EDITION
SEPT 1–5, 2021
BIDFF 2021
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL, THE 7TH EDITION
SEPT 1–5, 2021
THE 2021 BIDFF AWARDS
The jury formed from Marlene Millar (CA), Saddo (RO) and Bogdan Theodor Olteanu (RO) named BELIA (directed by Eman Hussein, from Egypt) the Best Film of the International Competition. The jury was impressed by the film's capacity to shine a light on a little-explored topic – fixing cars in an Egyptian neighborhood. BELIA's ingenious use of everyday objects to compose a fascinating soundscape blends perfectly with the rhythm dictated by the movement and editing. In the NATIONAL COMPETITION, the Best Film was named PUBLIC FIGURE (directed by Madalina Zaharia), which stood out from this year's selection by employing a clever mix of mediums to convey a story. As a dance film, PUBLIC FIGURE successfully uses cinematography to create an essay about the body. The jury decided to awards two Special Mentions as well. THE KITCHEN (directed by Vishwakiran Nambi, from India), playfully deconstructs traditional dance to convey a strong story about the women's role in contemporary India. Performed with irony and humor, the film is a successful fusion of styles that offers a relaxed yet firm approach to feminism. FIBONACCI (directed by Tomas Hubacek, from the Czech Republic), impressed the jury with the sharpness of its direction and its pictural cinematography, skillfully integrating an universal mathematical concept within the structure of the film.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND THEME OF THE FESTIVAL: POTENTIAL WORLDS
“Art, like the world we live in, is in a continuous transformation. Art pushes the boundaries of the real world and constantly redefines its forms. Just as an ecosystem adapts to change, integrates new elements or mutations, needs regeneration and balance, so does art, in all its forms, seeks to redefine its form and content.
In the last year, contemporary society was taken by surprise by the appearance of some events that disrupted its linear existence and forced it to rethink its actions, the relationship with the environment, the relationship between state and citizen, transnational mobility, cultural identity. We had to correlate actions and ideologies on a planetary level, being forced by global events in front of which we had to reinvent the way we function as a society and question our values of humanity. In the middle of these situations is the body, this “biological vessel” that we try to protect and keep intact, but at the same time it is the generator of change, transformation and progress.
In the face of these borderline situations, art and the ways of producing and presenting art have also changed. Ignoring the crisis and the need for change is like watching a tsunami and thinking it’s just a wave you can float through without worrying about it. The artistic formats undergo some necessary mutations, the film leaves the cinema, the dance leaves the stage. BIDFF questions the current situation and wonders what we are heading towards. What will tomorrow’s art be like, the art of the next decade and, why not, the art of the next century? What can be the new cinematic and performative formats, what topics become relevant when you are forced by circumstances to be aware of borders and how can you transgress these boundaries using the body, cinematic art, science and new technologies?”
BIDFF #7 Trailer
Schedule
Schedule
+ Wednesday, September 1
20:30 – 22:00 | Opening Film: Ailey, by Jamila Wignot 82' | 📍Cinéma Elvire Popesco
21:00 – 22:30 | Twofold Worlds – International Competition I 80' | 📍Mercato Kultur
+ Thursday, September 2
11:00 – 15:00 | Dance Filmmaking Lab with Marlene Millar | 📍The National Center for Dance Bucharest
18:00 – 21:00 | Opening BIDFF VR '21 | 📍/SAC @ MALMAISON
18:30 – 20:00 | Marvellous Worlds – International Competition II 80' | 📍Cinéma Elvire Popesco
+ Friday, September 3
11:00 – 15:00 | Dance Filmmaking Lab with Marlene Millar | 📍The National Center for Dance Bucharest
14:00 – 17:00 / 18:00 – 21:00 | BIDFF VR '21 Exhibiton | 📍/SAC @ MALMAISON
17:00 – 18:30 | Lecture Gilles Jobin | 📍MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Auditorium Hall
20:30 – 22:00 | Sisters with Transistors, by Lisa Rovner 86' | 📍Cinéma Elvire Popesco
21:00 – 22:00 | Self-Seeking Worlds – National Competition 60' | 📍Fabrica Grivita
+ Saturday, September 4
11:00 – 15:00 | Dance Filmmaking Lab with Marlene Millar | 📍The National Center for Dance Bucharest
14:00 – 17:00 / 18:00 – 21:00 | BIDFF VR '21 Exhibition | 📍/SAC @ MALMAISON
16:00 – 18:00 | Lecture Weronika Lewandowska | 📍MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Auditorium Hall
20:30 – 22:15 | 512 Hours, by Adina Istrate and Giannina La Salvia 99' | 📍Cinéma Elvire Popesco
21:00 – 21:35 | COSMOGONY – Video Projection Performance in Real Time | 📍Odeon Theatre Square
21:00 – 22:30 | Vibrant Worlds – International Competition III 80' | 📍Fabrica Grivita
+ Sunday, September 5
14:00 – 17:00 / 18:00 – 21:00 | BIDFF VR '21 Exhibition | 📍/SAC @ MALMAISON
20:15 – 21:45 | The Japanese Avant-garde 85' | 📍MARe/Museum of Recent Art
20:30 – 22:30 | Closing Film: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), by Questlove 118' | 📍Cinéma Elvire Popesco
21:45 | BIDFF Awards Gala | 📍MARe/Museum of Recent Art
++ Download the AR app Dance Trail
Detailed Schedule
DANCE TRAIL, BY CIE GILLES JOBIN
AUGMENTED REALITY APP AVAILABLE IN APP STORE
🕣 DURING THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL 📍 FROM EVERYWHERE IN BUCHAREST
Dance Trail is an augmented reality dance piece in the form of an iOS app available for free download on the App Store that enables users to bring virtual dancers into the real world through their smartphone or tablet. The app enables users to trigger unreal dance sequences in the environment they are in (indoor or outdoor). Users can also place dances anywhere in the world and share screenshots and videos via social networks.
BIDFF invites you to join a global community of Dance Trail users and create your virtual dances all over Bucharest. Share your pictures and videos on our social media pages with #dancetrail and tag us: @BucharestInternationalDanceFilmFestival on Facebook, and @bidff.ro on Instagram.
AILEY
DOCUMENTARY, 82’, 2021, USA
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 1ST 🕣 FROM 20:30 📍 AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. Ailey traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
TWOFOLD WORLDS – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION I
SHORT FILMS, 80’
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 1ST 🕣 FROM 21:00 📍 AT MERCATO KULTUR
In the first competitive section of BIDFF, nature and industrialization collide head-on. Directors and choreographers from eight different countries invite us to reflect on our relationship with the environment and the visions of our parents and grandparents, oscillating between fragility and human resilience. A direct result of the events from recent years, these short films explore the cycle of life and death, through stories that are magical yet as real as possible, in which the movement of the city intertwines that of nature. In its search for happiness, the human body dances from the inside out, freeing itself of the tensions accumulated over time, which dissolve and resolve.
Line-up: BEYOND, They Saw the Sun First, Scapelands, Human Habitat, Memories of the Future, Moving Barcelona, The Soft Bit, Through Glass, UTRO, TOKE, and Salidas.
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DANCE FILMMAKING LAB WITH MARLENE MILLAR
SEPT 2ND - 4TH 🕣 FROM 11:00 TO 15:00 📍AT THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST
One of the most prolific dance filmmakers in Canada, with 30 years of experience in the field, Marlene Millar will attend BIDFF to teach an intensive workshop and contribute to the professional development of the local creative industry.
Over the three sessions, we will explore the filmic landscape as a creative, and a performative space. Working in situ, participants will focus on creating personal worlds through the lens and through the visual treatments they develop. We will explore framing and composition including understanding depth of field, and experimenting with both camera movement and fixed frames to create connections between the environment, the body, and the dance. What role does space play in the narrative structure of the film? How do we inhabit these cinematic worlds of our making? The aural imprint of location sound recording will be explored as well.
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BIDFF VR ‘21
SEPT 2ND - 5TH 📍AT /SAC @ MALMAISON
BIDFF VR ’21 is a kaleidoscope of potential worlds in which you will travel among the tribes of Kenya and the Amazon forests, in the heart of contemporary India, on other planets and in parallel realities. The exhibition leads visitors through interactive experiences in which sacredness and myths are transformed into possible worlds of the future, while onomatopoeic landscapes change your perspective on space.
In the virtual worlds presented by BIDFF you can discover humanized cyborgs, maturing robots, invisible portals, universes that link the past to the future and in which time is an illusion. These works critically problematize topics such as women's emancipation, gender fluidity, the role of humans in a post-digital age, linguistic and cultural barriers, war and humans’ attitude towards the planet on which they live on. Exploring personal archives and fading cultures, the BIDFF VR potential worlds use technology as a medicine, a medium for personal introspection, and a questioning of the values that define us as a global society.
Marvellous WORLDS – International Competition II
SHORT FILMS, 86’
THURSDAY, SEPT 2ND 🕣 FROM 18:30 📍 AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
11 short films that explore the human body in motion will engage our minds and stimulate our imaginations. Marvelous Worlds is a visual feast that includes cinematic experiments, audio-visual meditations, futuristic worlds, performative rituals and musical avatars in virtual cities. These unrecognizable worlds question the existing cultural paradigms as floating realities in which communication becomes synesthetic and the boundary between enchantment and nightmare has been completely erased.
Line-up: Weakness of the Flesh, Dive, Fibonacci, Still Life - Tabeo, All, or Nothing at All, D3C05, Beast, Insomnia, Color Me, Your Coffee, Please, and Ghosts and All.
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Lecture Gilles Jobin
FRIDAY, SEPT 3RD 🕣 FROM 17:00 📍AT MARe/MUSEUM OF RECENT ART, AUDITORIUM HALL
In his lecture, Gilles Jobin will present the different digital dance projects he has created in the last few years and how collaborative projects such as Virtual Crossings can offer new possibilities for the performing arts. If motion capture can be a tool for creation it can also be used for the archival and study of dances and movements. Digitalization is not shared evenly in our modern society. By sharing hardware resources and knowledge, through networked technology, open source software and low fi and recycled solutions we can challenge the problem of the digital divide. Jobin will discuss how motion capture technology can improve the inclusivity of different origins dance creations and develop new international networks of movement-based collaborations. In a world of sanitary uncertainty and traveling difficulties, real time collaborations at a distance and in movement, offer new possibilities to the new problems of the performing arts.
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
DOCUMENTARY, 86’, 2020, UK/FR/USA
FRIDAY, SEPT 3RD 🕣 FROM 20:30 📍 AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
Sisters with Transistors is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. Theremins, synthesizers and feedback machines abound in this glorious ode to the women who helped shape, not just electronic music but the contemporary soundscape as we know it. Avant-garde composer Laurie Anderson narration accompanies fascinating archival footage to trace the history of the technological experimentation of sound, the deconstruction of its parts and the manipulation into something altogether other. While traversing a range of musical approaches and personalities, from academia to outsider art to television commercials, we meet fascinating and enigmatic musical geniuses and their peculiar way of hearing the world.
SELF-SEEKING WORLDS – NATIONAL COMPETITION
SHORT FILMS, 60’
FRIDAY, SEPT 3RD 🕣 FROM 21:00 📍 AT FABRICA GRIVITA
The Romanian short film competition includes six titles, created or co-created by Romanian directors and choreographers. The relationship with nature, ways of reacting to chaos, collaborative processes which involve dance, music, poetry and cinema, the exploration of the collective body and the critique of contemporary visions of the perfect body in media, are themes and topics that concern young local filmmakers. How can we rethink our journey through life? — is one of the questions raised by this short and intense selection of films, which highlights the creativity of the young generation of dance filmmakers from Romania.
Line-up: Breath, Public Figure, Calcar, pretty UGLY, Almost, and Ship of Fools.
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Lecture Weronika Lewandowska
SATURDAY, SEPT 4TH 🕣 FROM 16:00 📍AT MARe/MUSEUM OF RECENT ART, AUDITORIUM HALL
In her lecture, Weronika Lewandowska, spoken word poet, director, writer, and executive producer of the virtual erotic poem VR Nightsss, will talk about VR and the immersive experiences creation process. What we can bring to it from spoken word practice and performance art. How to write and create a sensual VR experience, and design immersive metaphors. How she and co-director Sandra Frydrysiak combined dance with poetry in a VR environment. How has their previous research on immersion, perception of body and motion in VR and neuroscience reflection has influenced the VR Nightsss piece? In a case study of Nightsss, she will try to answer these and other questions related to the creative process of spatial medium.
512 Hours
DOCUMENTARY, 99’, 2021, UK/USA/IT
SATURDAY, SEPT 4TH 🕣 FROM 20:30 📍 AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
In the summer of 2014, tens of thousands of visitors came to London to experience the latest exhibition by acclaimed performance artist Marina Abramovic, only to discover themselves as the subjects of her new groundbreaking work. Seven years after her acclaimed MoMA retrospective, Abramovic decided to test her own emotional limit and that of her audience in what she described as the most radical durational performance she’d ever attempted. However, when 512 Hours finally opened at the Serpentine Galleries in London, something unexpected even to her happened; a social experiment of human connectivity emerged, exposing a cast of participants to dramatic depths of human emotion and empathy.
COSMOGONY, BY CIE GILLES JOBIN
VIDEO PROJECTION PERFORMANCE IN REAL TIME
SATURDAY, SEPT 4TH 🕣 FROM 21:00 📍 IN THE ODEON THEATRE SQUARE
Cosmogony is a live digital performance, in which virtual dancers appear in real time video-mapped on the facade of Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, being remotely motion-captured live from Cie Gilles Jobin’s studio in Geneva. Thanks to real-time motion capture technology the company has developed, the data of the dancer’s movement is sent through the network to be reconstructed, in real time. The real dancers connect their avatars in the 3D spaces on the screens to compose the cosmogony of a virtual world in suspension. In a sidereal space or within a virtual forest, the moving bodies of the dancers are freed from the laws of physics and offer a unique contemplative experience to the audience.
VIBRANT WORLDS – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION III
SHORT FILMS, 80’
SATURDAY, SEPT 4TH 🕣 FROM 21:00 📍 AT FABRICA GRIVITA
The last competition section of BIDFF invites viewers to discover a fusion of cultures and styles in which the human redefines their identity in relation to the world they belong to. These stories are told in vibrant colors, with catchy music, and have protagonists that you won’t forget easily. They are the ones changing the world in the everyday life, deconstructing the traditional in a creative way, be it funny, cynical or ironic. From the Dancehall scene of Jamaica, to the rituals of Australia, to a kitchen in India where women use Bollywood to criticize the patriarchal society in an entertaining way, to the dance of some construction tools in a small workshop in Egypt and the emancipation of European dance subcultures, the films from Vibrant Worlds won’t let you rest.
Line-up: Ulrichs 1867, Voguing with Beethoven, Belia, The Circadian Cycle, The Kitchen, and Shelly Belly inna Real Life.
SUMMER OF SOUL
DOCUMENTARY, 118’, 2021, USA
SUNDAY, SEPT 5TH 🕣 FROM 20:30 📍 AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more.
The Japanese Avant-Garde
SHORT FILMS, 90’
SUNDAY, SEPT 5TH 🕣 FROM 20:15 📍 AT MARe/MUSEUM OF RECENT ART
In the decades following World War II, Japan experienced several unprecedented social changes to which artists responded provocatively and innovatively, exploring new directions and aesthetics in cinema and pushing the boundaries to new extremes. An amalgam of textures, sensations and feelings, the six avant-garde short films that alternate between film and digital, tradition and modernity, palpable and abstract, reveal potential worlds that are still alive: that of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of the protests and the need for radical change, of fetishes and erotic desire, putting in the spotlight a contemporaneity which still justifies its name. This selection serves both as a brief overview of the underground scene’s evolution over the years and a reflection on how Japanese art of the last century managed to absorb, rethink and influence Western art.
Line-up: Navel and A-Bomb, The Skin of a Napping, Dead Youth, Biological Cycle No. 2, For the Damaged Right Eye, and Merce by Merce by Paik.
Jury
AND THE FESTIVAL TEAM
Jury
AND THE FESTIVAL TEAM
The jury will watch the films included in this year’s competitions and will award prizes for Best Film (1.000 euros), to a film chosen from the International Competition, and Best Romanian Film (500 euros), to a film chosen from the National Competition.
MARLENE MILLAR
Marlene Millar has created dance films, documentaries and experimental media productions for over 30 years. In 2019, her expansive career was honoured at a retrospective solo exhibit at Threshold Artspace, Perth, UK, premiering her installation WITNESS that captures metaphoric histories with docu-fiction resonances. The process-driven continuum of the MIGRATION DANCE FILM PROJECT directed by Millar and choreographed by Sandy Silva comes to life as she transposes choreography to the screen, revealing the intricacies of these issue-driven, performative stories. Their films have garnered over 30 awards and prizes internationally. Since 2000, Marlene has co-created a critically acclaimed collection of dance media work with Philip Szporer through their company, MOUVEMENT PERPÉTUEL. A prolific educator and mentor, Millar has taught filmmaking across continents at institutes such as Centre Imagine (Burkina Faso), Malakta (Finland), Impulstanz (Vienna) and throughout the Canadian Arctic.
BOGDAN THEODOR OLTEANU
Bogdan Theodor Olteanu wrote and directed several short films, two features and four theatre plays. He dropped out of school immediately after high school and tried several trades before reaching film and theater. He was a rugby player, an investigative journalist at Romania Libera, a consultant in sports marketing and political communications, he wrote short prose and is a founding member of the culture magazine SUB25. His debut feature, Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl, enjoyed a two year-long festival run. It had the world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival and national premiere at Transilvania International Film Festival and went on to garner 4 nominations at the Gopo Awards: Best Debut, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (both Silvana Mihai and Florentina Nastase), Young Talent (Tudor D. Popescu, editor). His second feature, Mia Misses Her Revenge, just had its world premiere at Warsaw International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award. His first theatre plays, Taxi Drivers and The Hottest Day of the Year, were selected in the most important theatre festivals in Romania.
SADDO
Romanian illustrator, artist and muralist, Saddo went through many phases and influences - his work mixes his taste for artists like Rousseau, Matisse, Grayson Perry, with elements from textile design (rugs, tapestry), Islamic miniature, Orthodox icons, folk art, and urban elements, street art, contemporary illustration and graphic design, hip hop, and pop culture.
festival team
Co-Founder & Artistic Director Simona DEACONESCU | Co-Founder & Festival Director Anamaria ANTOCI | Executive Director Laura MUSAT | International Relations Laurentiu PARASCHIV | Side Events Coordinator Emilia PAUNESCU | Project Assistant Anamaria GEGER | Programmers Laurentiu PARASCHIV Simona DEACONESCU Cristian PASCARIU Alex RADU (BIDFF VR) | PR Department Simona RADOI Anca MACOVICIUC | Visual Identity Ioana TRUSCA | Translation Ligia SOARE Iulia SARBOIU | Subtitles Andrei HARABAGIU | Video Editor Alex PINTICA | Making of Alberto NICULAE | Photographers Doria DRAGUSIN Ionut RUSU | Technical Department Sorin SAFTA Marius Catalin HODEA Valentin GOLBAN & 360 REVOLUTION | Accountant & Fiscal Adviser Florina BAICU | Financial Coordinator Monica ISTRATE
Venues
Venues
Cinéma Elvire Popesco
DACIA BLVD. 77
/SAC @ MALMAISON
Plevnei Avenue 137C
MARe/Museum of Recent Art
Primaverii Blvd. 15
THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST (CNDB)
MARASESTI BLVD. 80-82
The Odeon Theatre
Victoriei Avenue 40-42
FABRICA GRIVITA
Orhideelor ST. 19
mErcato kultur
Gheorghe Demetriade ST. 6-10
Partners
CO-FOUNDERS, SPONSORS, PARTNERS
Partners
CO-FOUNDERS, SPONSORS, PARTNERS
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival is a cultural project organized by the Tangaj Collective Association.
“Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, the 7th edition” is co-financed by the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB within the Bucharest – Open City 2021 programme. The content of this material does not necessarily represent the official position of the Bucharest City Hall or that of ARCUB.
“Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, the 7th edition” is co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
The festival is supported by Conceptual Lab by Theo Nissim.
The partners and hosts of the festival are the French Institute (Cinema Elvire Popesco), the National Center for Dance Bucharest, /SAC @ MALMAISON, MARe/Museum of Recent Art, Fabrica Grivita, Mercato Kultur.
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About
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
About
BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
IT ALL STARTED IN…
2015, when choreographer Simona Deaconescu and film producer Anamaria Antoci gathered resources to develop the only festival in Romania dedicated to dance films.
BIDFF was founded out of love for the dance film genre, with the scope of promoting artists that work across genres and presenting cinematographic works in which the language of the body explores strong narratives. Each year, the festival has a different theme that reflects upon the contemporary realities and questions the future of the body.
The programme of the festival consists of film screenings, visual art exhibitions and installations, performances, concerts, lectures, workshops and masterclasses. BIDFF takes place in the most popular sites in Bucharest, combining art house cinemas, open-air screenings (rooftop or urban gardens), performance venues, galleries and museums. Influential artists join the festival as guests and mentors, while a wide range of scholars, film producers and distributors, both local and international, connect through the BIDFF network of activities.
We aim to connect professionals from arts, through a manifestation in which hybridisation becomes an essential base for innovation. Choreographers as Chris Haring (AT), Sharon Fridman (ES), Florin Fieroiu (RO), meet directors Tomer Heymann (IS), Peter Schneider (USA), meet specialist as Guy Cools (BE), Helena Jonsdottir (IL), Claudia Kappenberg (UK), Andy Wood (UK), meet film producers Ada Solomon (RO), Gullin Ustun (TK), meet visual artists Claudia Hart (USA), Alex Mirutziu (RO), emerging artists meet mid-career artists in a range of activities that involve a discursive approach towards dance filmmaking.
Regionally, BIDFF functions as a meeting point between artistic visions and cultural organisations, promoting a new prototype of collaboration. We want to envision a realistic perspective regarding the means of production of a dance film and present the most active creative hot-spots around the world, doubled by resourceful collaborations between artistic sectors. Since 2017, under the umbrella of BIDFF, we have developed EXPAND. This platform crisscrosses the festival, by supporting cinematographic projects in development and the networking between dance and film industries.
In 2020 BIDFF has been nominated at AFCN AWARDS for “Promoting Romanian Culture around the World”, and in 2016 choreographer Simona Deaconescu received The National Center for Dance Award for “the contribution brought to the Romanian dance scene by organising BIDFF”.
BIDFF is funded through annual applications with the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and the Romanian Cinema Centre. Two editions of BIDFF have been sponsored through ARCUB - The Center for Cultural Projects of Bucharest. Other financial supporters of the festival have been: The Romanian Cultural Institute, Expo Arte Cultural Center and different embassies and consulates in Bucharest (The Austrian Cultural Forum, The Israeli Embassy in Bucharest, Cervantes Institute, Balassi Institute, The Sweden Embassy in Bucharest, The Icelandic Consulate, British Council, The French Institute). BIDFF has received sponsorship from Conceptual Lab by Theo Nissim and in-kind services by Tiriac Auto, Crama Histria, Allira and DHL.
Our main hosts are Cinema Elvira Popescu, The National Center for Dance Bucharest, Gastropub Factory (Rooftop Cinema), The National Peasant Museum Cinema, and LINOTIP - Independent Choreographic Center. Depending on the needs of every edition we have successfully collaborated with CINETIC, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Galateca Gallery, POINT Theatre, Apollo Theatre, Qreator, The National University of Music, Union Cinema.
BIDFF is produced by the Tangaj Collective Association.
Hello WORLD
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Contact
Contact
E-mail:
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