SEPT 4th, 20:30 – 21:45
CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
A space can sometimes create the illusion of security and belonging- to a group, a community or a territory. When the borders of this space become uncertain, we are forced to step out of the comfort of what we know and readapt. We are opening the competitional category of the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival with a selection of short films that portray people in search of the right place- be it mental, emotional or physical. Whether they meet in real places or travel to virtual territories, the protagonists of this journey oscillate jovially between fiction and materiality.
Navigation
13:30, 2020, CAN
D: Marlene Millar
C: Sandy Silvia
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, Navigation explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively. Using the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain, themes of survival and perseverance, departure and renewal emerge in a nuanced and layered interpretation of the migration experience. The rhythms, movement, vocals and landscape define and embody this exploration, featuring the performances of 10 dancers, singers and a choir of 40 participants.
Cinderella Games
6:29, 2020, UK
D: Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple
C: Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple
Do YOU want to live happily ever after? Find the shoe, outplay your opponents, and beat the clock to claim the prize!
A group of contestants battle it out in a competitive game show, each one desperate to prove they are the real Cinderella in order to win their very own Happy Ever After.
Salt Water
5:54, 2018, USA
D: Abe Abraham
C: Abe Abraham
Set to the seismographic recordings of the earth’s vibrations, Salt Water explores the contrast between the force of natural events and our own need and desire for stability.
Re:Born
10:02, 2019, NL
D: Fleur Bax, Annemijn Rijk
C: Annemijn Rijk
As if she had collapsed from the sky. We see a creature motionless on the ground, under the mucus and with just enough power to breathe. The long legs stretched out, the knees bony. The face hidden under the arms, anonymous, alone. To survive, an apparently impossible challenge lies in the prospect: Getting up.
How do you get up if you are thrown into life so hard? How do you proceed if life attacks you bluntly? How do you stand up if you don’t know how to get your body together? Re:Born is dance film about the force that must be found and that must be felt in every fiber, the force that is needed to believe in the body (again), that is needed to rise.
CLOSE QUARTERS
12:44, 2020, CL
D: Patricio Soto-Aguilar
C: Marco Orellana
A woman longs for a sense of belonging in a place where she is not welcomed.
between silences
8:30, 2018, USA
D: Rich Ferri
C: Ali Kenner Brodsky
Filmed on location on Cape Cod, between silences is a dance film based on Ali Kenner Brodsky’s solo the most depressing piece… Together with filmmaker Rich Ferri, Kenner Brodsky transforms her live solo into a raw, unfiltered cinematic experience. between silences portrays one woman’s journey through grief. To love. To lose. To grieve. To find a way back.
Divided We Scroll
5:00, 2019, UK
D: Klaas Diersman
C: Pepa Ubera
Technology is rewiring our brains and changing both our physical movements and inner thought processing. Divided We Scroll is an experimental and eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with these technolgies, which have become obsessive, compulsive and divisive. Through contemporary dance, we explore the chilling reality of a constantly connected world where data and software is continuing to redefine us within an increasingly complex technological network.
The Last Children
10:00, 2019, FR
D: Fu Le
C: Fu Le
The Last Children is a choreographic film in one sequence with the children of a school on the eve of its closure. Through a metaphorical fable, it bears witness to the achievement of the desertification in the rural world and the death of its villages.
No, I Don’t Want To Dance!
2:39, 2020, UK
D: Andrea Vinciguerra
In these dark times, you may think that every hazard has been identified, but nobody has taken in consideration how dangerous dance can be…