Festival 2008 - Special Programs

 

Winner of 2008 Baghdad International Film Festival

Spoke The Hub
January 15, 2008: 7:30pm
Screening of DANCE, THE ART OF ENCOUNTERS
Dominique Hervieu & Jose Montalvo, France, 2007, 57m
“This film is a reflection on cultural diversity; not diversity as a simple pretext for an artistic project but rather as a vital and unique experience of contemporary life.”

Shown with the short BABEL directed & performed by Peter Sparling

Spoke the Hub is located at The Gowanus at 295 Douglas Street
(between 3rd and 4th Avenues). Brooklyn, NY
(718) 408-3234; MTA directions: R Train to Union St/Brooklyn (4th Avenue). Suggested Donation: $5

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CARGO
directed by Kelly Hargraves

Receptions
Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery
Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza
January 2 and 4 2008: 7:30

January 4th reception is a tribute to First Run Features for championing dance film. On the eve of the release of FRF's second dance for camera DVD, Kelly Hargraves, producer of the DVD series, looks back (January 4, 6:15pm) at Pascal Magnin's shorts that were the catalyst to launch the series 5 years ago.

Jock Soto
photographed by Gwendolen Cates
for her book "Indian Country"

New York Premiere of WATER FLOWING TOGETHER
New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center
January 7, 2008: 6:30pm, $7

The 36th Annual Dance on Camera Festival, in a joint presentation with New York City Ballet, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association (DFA) will present the New York premiere of the documentary film WATER FLOWING TOGETHER on Monday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center.  A compelling cinematic portrait of former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Jock Soto, WATER FLOWING TOGETHER explores his Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican roots, as well as his extraordinary career as one of the ballet world's most gifted and celebrated dancers.  Directed by Gwendolen Cates, this is an intimate, moving profile of an artist and a man.  A conversation with Mr. Soto and Ms. Cates will follow the screening on the stage of the New York State Theater, where Mr. Soto performed for nearly twenty-five years.  

WATER FLOWING TOGETHER will be shown again during the Dance on Camera Festival at the Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza on January 18, 2008, 8:30pm, followed by a question and answer session with Gwendolen Cates and Jock Soto.

Kinetic Cinema
A monthly dance film series presented by Collective:Unconscious, explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse has invited a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These are films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Upcoming guests in 2008 include Brian McCormick (Feb 4th), Malinda Allen (March 3rd), Jonah Bokaer (April 7th), Levi Gonzalez (May 5th), and Kriota Willberg (June 2nd).

January 7th, 7:30pm screening as part of DOCF
Curated by Anna Brady Nuse
Collective:Unconscious www.weird.org
279 Church Street (between White & Franklin Sts.) $5

FEIST
Patrick Daughters, USA, 2007, 3:14
Choreographer Noemi LaFrance worked with 45 dancers to create a series of tunnels, sideways and shapes for a music video. 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. This film was a collaborative effort between students of dance, film, fine art, theatre, and music at the University of Texas at Austin. To be introduced by the director

ANIMALZ
Sergio Cruz, England, 2006, 3m
Animalz takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes. Co-choreographed by Strictly Dance Fever’s JP Omari, the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their performances.

PANORAMA ROMA
Anna de Manincor, Italy, 2005, 12m
Panorama_Roma is an original crossing of visal arts and cinema experimentations (starting from the earliest panoramas by Lumière, Edison, Alber Khan). Piazza del Popolo in Rome has been chosen as a perfect example of imperfect symmetry and as a pedestrian junction of employees, clerks, tourists, artists and priests. In this naturally elliptic set the camera, as if it were a watch, completes a 360° round in 60 minutes. This video tries to find an extra-ordinary flux of time: the shootings have been compressed 20 times to obtain one hour visible in three minutes. Among unaware passer-bys, the camera discovers little by little strange narcoleptic beings who live, move, watch, and sleep in the architecture and launch encoded signals to the spectator. Performers act in a parallel temporal landscape in the condition of permanence. This flux is filled by visions and forewarnings: others possible lives appear.

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 a bullet rolling across broken cement, three men engaging in acts of quiet violence, and noisy interaction.

NOT ABOUT IRAQ
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.

Kinetic Cinema is part of The Collective for Loving Cinema Series, a weekly themed-film series curated by Anna Brady Nuse, Stephen Kent Jussick, Matt Kohn and MM Serra and presented by Collective: Unconscious. Each week of the month has a specific theme: Week 1 - Kinetic Cinema (Dance on Film), Week 2 - Experimental Queer Film (MIX @ C:U), Week 3 - Speakeasy Cinema (a mystery film with post screening talk back with various film luminaries!) and Week 4 - Jewels and Gems (the best of the Filmmakers Co-Op) . The Collective for Loving Cinema Series is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

 

 

 

 

 

Jody Sperling

Gerald Marks talks about 3D
January 8, 2008: 6-7:45 - FREE
Donnell Media Center, New York Public Library
20 W. 53rd Street, New York, NY (across from Museum of Modern Art)
Co-sponsored by the New York Film Video Council

Picturing Dance in Three, Sometimes Four, Dimensions

Multimedia artist Gerald Marks presents an evening of Stereoscopic 3-D projections of or related to dance. This digital 3-D slideshow begins with historical examples some of the earliest 3-D photography of dance; hand tinted views of a ballet company performing in Paris during the 1860s and Victorian era views of twin ballerinas. There will be very early images of African dance, taken from glass plates made during the Museum of Natural History's first major expedition into the Congo. All genres of dance will be included. Sally Rand's scandalous Bubble Dance will represent the 1930s. The 1950s will be very well represented with amazing stereoscopic tourist photos of performances in exotic locales and with stills from a great movie musical. There will be rare photos of Chasidic Dance. The historic images lead up to the projected 3-D set Marks created for the ballet The Bell Witch with the Nashville Ballet, featuring Martine vanHamel as a flying ghost that sails out over the stage. Finally, there will be Marks' own photography of dance companies now performing around New York, as well as movement artists exploring the links between dance, nature, science, and perception. High quality 3-D glasses will be provided for your viewing experience.

Gerald Marks is an artist working along the border of art and science, specializing in stereoscopic 3-D. He may be best known for the 3-D videos he directed for The Rolling Stones during their Steel Wheels tour. He has taught at The Cooper Union, The New School and the School of Visual Arts, where he currently teaches Stereoscopic 3-D as part of the MFA program in Computer Art. He was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked in computer-generated holography. His Professor Pulfrich's Universe installations, featuring dancing sculptures casting 3-D shadows, are popular features in museums all over the world, including San Francisco's Exploratorium, The N. Y. Hall of Science, and Sony ExploraScience in Beijing & Tokyo. He has done 3-D consulting, lecturing & design for scientific purposes for The American Museum of Natural History, the National Institutes of Health, and Discover Magazine. He has designed award winning projections and sets at the Public Theater, SOHO Rep, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center and the Nashville Ballet. He created the 3-D glass-block mural in the 28th Street station of the #6 train. In recent years, he has been working a lot with dance imagery and dancers, creating stereoscopically projected sets.

Celebration of Loie Fuller
Saturday, January 12: 7pm
Berkeley Carroll School
Hosted by Dalienne Majors
181 Lincoln Place,
Park Slope Brooklyn

Jody Sperling in "Ether" from "Dance of the Elements"
Photographer: Julie Lemberger

Screening, performance, and discussion
with authors Rhonda Garelick, author of "Electric Salome",
Ann Cooper Albright author of "Traces of Light,
and dancer Jody Sperling performing "Dance of the Elements.

Directions:
181 Lincoln Place, Park Slope Brooklyn (between 7th and 8th Ave. Take Q train to 7th Avenue/Brooklyn or 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn). Hosted by Dalienne Majors. Call: 718-789-6060