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Part of MOVE Fest this year is not "only" happening on the stage, but also on the screen! We have prepared a screening of three artistic dance films for Saturday evening.
Film processing of performance art allows artists to explore new forms of expression, to use the possibilities of the camera, editing and specific locations that cannot be transferred to a classical stage. Thanks to films, it is also possible to capture details, emotions and movement nuances that are often hidden on stage. So come and enjoy dancing in a slightly different form. Awaiting you:
Guest/Guest - Czech film by Regina Hofmanová awarded at film festivals in Great Britain, the United States and Canada
...Or To Be - Stéphanie N'Duhirah's dance film offers viewers a reflection on the inability to step out of stereotypes and find mutual closeness
Human Habitat - a Norwegian work using dance to thematize the clash of pristine nature and growing industry in the Arctic
THE GUEST is a short film bridging genres including dance, absurd comedy and drama with the inclusion of dialogue in the native languages of the actors.
"When a guest is enthusiastically welcomed into his host's immaculate home, he decides to return the visit with an unexpected invitation into his own world. The result is a surreal and often absurd navigation between familiarity and alienation, traced through the use of mannerisms and customs that serve as metaphors for the threads that connect and divide individual."
GUEST, 2022, Czech Republic, 10 min
Produced and directed by Regina Hofmanova
Choreography by Regina Hofmanova
Costumes, Set and Production: Renata Weidlichová
Production and Make-up: Barbora Červenková
Edit: Šárka Sklenářová
DOP: Radek Loukota
Part:
Guest - Ivona Szantová
The experimental short film …Or to Be brings to the scene three characters caught in a triangle of emptiness, fear and abandonment. It is a caricature of passing, an urgent statement about the inability to step out of an experienced stereotype, about the inability to let go of hysteria and at least get a little closer to yourself.
This film by director Stéphanie N'Duhirah was based on a production of the same name by Czech performer Markéta Stránská and French dancer and choreographer Jean Gaudin. As a result, the original work consists of two "solos", two characters who do not know about each other and who are brought together only by the viewer who has the chance to see them together. The audience becomes a witness to this non-meeting and can imagine what would happen if the characters saw each other.
The film is a unique and even comical conception of the oppressive emptiness that the contemporary world experiences under the dense accompaniment of constant communication and endless experiences. He works with the concept of emptiness and the ambivalent feelings that we experience inside and around us when we feel abandoned or insufficiently fulfilled.
The creators offer three points of view, three different characters who are looking for their own way to cope with the intractable space. Whether to compulsively fill it with everything available, or to accept and appreciate it as an inseparable and unique part of every moment.
Screenplay, editing, direction: Stéphanie N'Duhirahe
Subject: Markéta Stránská, Jean Gaudin, Stephanie N'Duhirahe
Choreography, interpretation: Jean Gaudin, Markéta Stránská, Papír
Lighting design: Zuzana Režná
Music, sound: Matěj Kotouček
Technical cooperation: Šimon Klimt
Production: Heart registered association, zs (Markéta Stránská) & Eva Dryjová
Co-production: Studio ALTA
Project partners: Studio ALTA, Center for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA
The project was created with the financial support of the State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Originating in the clash between untouched nature and growing industry in the Arctic, Human Habitat explores the oscillation between human resilience and fragility. The dancer takes us on an associative, non-narrative journey through emotional states that confront the transformation from a sustainable to a destructive relationship between man and landscape.
The author is Flavia Devonas Hoffmann - a Swiss dancer, choreographer and filmmaker who currently works in Greenland. He has a master's degree in philosophy and is interested in the interconnectedness of man, nature and culture.
