FRIDAY, SEPT 3rd, 21:00 — 22:00
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.

Breath

7:48, 2021, RO
D: Catalin Rugina, Maria Luiza-Dimulescu
C: Maria Luiza-Dimulescu

Breath aims to make a critical and ironic foray, in rhythm of dance, into the destructive universe of the human being. On a hot day, five young people get stuck with their car in the middle of a golden field. Suddenly, the trunk opens and the story begins.

PUBLIC FIGURE

9:45, 2021, UK
D: Madalina Zaharia
C: Daniel Hay-Gordon

‘Do I dance how you expect?’ The body of a poet is tracked in four connected domestic locations, corresponding to four poems: Song of Jack, The Making of Him, My Orange Dance and Opinion. This film is the result of a collaboration between two friends, poet-performer Ryan Ormonde and artist-filmmaker Madalina Zaharia, based on Madalina's observations of Ryan's poetic process. Through this exchange, the poet and the onlooker are collectively staging a particular sense of ‘publicness’, a certain type of relationship that relies heavily on the tension between the body and the voice, and has its source in practices of embodied poetry and writing. What is it to present yourself in a poem as well as on screen? The filmed body is captured at odds with the disembodied voice in voice-over. Moments of lip-synch simultaneously bridge and expose the schism. Queerness is delineated through its oppositions. Oranges will fall.

CALCAR

5:39, 2020, RO
D: Georgeta Corca
C: Georgeta Corca, Sergiu Matis

The rock reveals a hidden character, that takes on a precise trajectory. Her manner of moving mirrors the fragmented, layered structure of the rock, reminding at times of an animal, a climber, a dancer.

pretty ugly

16:00, 2021, UK
D: Corina Andrian (Red-Cor)

I was born. I was born. It was not my choice to come into this world. But it was. I was passive. As I grow, I am deprived of all the things that make me beautiful, my hard edges, my imperfections, my grimaces. I am forcefully dispossessed. They belong to me. They belong to me. I have become poor. I have nothing. Through the fashion dance short prettyUGLY, film director and movement artist Red-Cor invites the viewer in an active process of co-creation, of looking at oneself bare. Fashion designer Kirsten Gair brings forward a collection of garments printed with microscopic images of her own body’s imperfections.

Almost

10:01, 2020, USA
D: Tobin Del Cuore
C: Ana Maria Lucaciu, Razvan Stoian

Almost is a story of two echoing universes as they try to align, where the air between and around two bodies resonate with what could have been.

[Ship of fools]

20:31, 2021, RO
D: Gabriel Durlan
C: Virginia Negru, Alexandra Balasoiu, Denis Bolborea, Catalin Diaconu

[ship of fools] is a dance-film created as a ritual of embracing chaos and absurdity of daily lives. Four performers travel through a multitude of spaces, in an empathic ”sailing boat”, that allows them to encounter their complex inner worlds with patience and understanding, softening expectations and breaking down stereotypes. They embrace the diversity of feeling and behaviour, finding in movement creative and poetic ways that nourish their ability to embrace the unknown and to come at peace with the all-surrounding absurdity. Dance becomes a way to survive as a soul and to dive safely into your depths.