SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

12 nov | 8:30 - 21:45 PM

THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC BUCHAREST - MULTIMEDIA AND EXPERIMENTAL OPERA STUDIO

33 Stirbei Voda

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Dynamically juggling between utopia and dystopia, between overcrowding and void, between chaos and monumental science, these films will take you to a sensory journey with an unknown destination, full of adrenaline. Here you can find the outsiders, the rebels and the ones that diverge from the present. In this world, the bodies acquire unusual properties and are moving on bizarre dynamics, going beyond reality into a world where the human changes along with the rules and principles of the natural. Either it appeals to the revival of the past or it places itself in a distant future, the relation between space and time is cautiously unbalanced.

Directors, choreographers, dance companies or atypical communities propose an alternative space, within which the contemporary principles are reconsidered. Ten different approaches proposed by artistic teams from Russia, Canada, France, The Netherlands and Ireland are building a cinematographic "cinematographic papier colle" within which receiving has infinite possibilities.

Inheritor Recordings

6', CA, 2015

D: Brian Johnson

C: Company 605

This short warps time and place to augment and expand 605’s raw and highly physical choreography. Their movement is infused with tiny rebellions and a hunger to take over, urgent to claim something as their own.

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THE ORDINARY

9', FR, 2016

D: Simon & Julien Dara

C: Johanna Levy

A young man has overcome his battle against a dragon. While the beast goes out in agony , he dances to celebrate his victory.

Womens' Christmas Night

5', IL, 2016

D: Oonagh Kearney

C: Megan & Jessica Kennedy

A highly visual response to the Irish language poem "Oíche Nollaig na mBan" by Seán O'Riordáin

Werewolf Heart

4', SUA, 2016

D: Christian Weber

C: Dalel Bacre

Werewolf Heart is a performance that illustrates the inner conflict of our protagonist, Dalel. Her body movements are reflective of her inner voice and the conflict she is experiencing while battling personal demons.

SILVER MORNINGS

8', NL, 2015

D: Guido F.G. Jeurissen

C: Rauwkost Collective

In a world where time and space are absent, a dancing young woman tries to rediscover love.

DANSE MACABRE

5', SUA, 2016

D: Jess Cavender

Inspired by the music, a 1940s recording of Franz Liszt's Totentanz, this animated dance film explores hubris and irony through the escapist dream of its protagonist

This is not Magritte

6', RU, 2015

D & C: Ivan Skorik

A story inspired by the paintings of René Magritte

Catharsis

8', FR, 2016

D & C: Veronika Akopova

In a laundrette a “delicate at 37°C” wash brings out a new born body tangled in fresh clothes. Oscillating between “pure” and “dirty”, the new being goes through human existential experiences, ending up with a cathartic jubilation of life.