Author: Katja

PEARL 22, 15.10.2022

lacuna

Louise Coetzer
South Africa 2019
00:03:30

Lacuna traces the unfilled spaces of the brutalist architecture enveloping the dancer. It is a cinematic study of light and shade, seen and unseen.
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#Title: lacuna
#Director: Louise Coetzer
#Choreography: Mthuthuzeli November
#Production: Darkroom Contemporary
#Country of Production: South Africa
#Year of Production: 2019
#Duration: 00:03:30
#Dance and Acting: Mthuthuzeli November
#Camera: Oscar O'Ryan
#Editing: Ebenhaezer Smal
#Music: Haezer
#Webpage: www.darkroomcontemporary.com
#Trailer:

PEARL 22, 14.10.2022

still/moving

Ainesh Madan
India 2020
00:07:07

Inspired by Merce Cunningham’s 50 Looks, still/moving explores the stillness–movement spectrum through a series of sculptures.
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#Title: still/moving
#Director: Ainesh Madan
#Choreography: Ainesh Madan
#Country of Production: India
#Year of Production: 2020
#Duration: 00:07:07
#Dance and Acting: Dayita Nereyeth, Guest performance: Lola, Lucy, and Sheeba
#Camera: Ainesh Madan
#Sound: Mario Schenker
#Webpage: www.aineshmadan.com
#Trailer:

PEARL 22, 12.10.2022

I WILL MEET YOU THERE

Karolina Nieduza
England, Indonesia 2022
00:07:07

The woman returns to her abandoned family home after years of living in the Far East among numerous religious and spiritual practices, and she starts to see how this life experience helped her develop a more profound understanding of the energy of life itself.
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#Title: I WILL MEET YOU THERE
#Director: Karolina Nieduza
#Choreography: Karolina Nieduza
#Production: Towards The Dance
#Country of Production: England, Indonesia
#Year of Production: 2022
#Duration: 00:07:07
#Dance and Acting: Suprapto Suryodarmo, Karolina Nieduza, Desti, Quin,
#Camera: Yori Fabian, Deny Ardianto
#Editing: Yori Fabian, Karolina Nieduza, Claire Loussouarn
#Sound: J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi
#Music: J Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi
#Screenplay: Karolina Nieduza
#Webpage:
#Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAzMa1NC_Qo

PEARL 22, 12.10.2022

Who I am

Riccardo Bernardi, Kira Metzler
Germany 2021
00:03:40

My own place of nowhere, separated from the rest. I see everyone. And everything. It keeps moving. They keep on moving. Time keeps running and I don´t understand how.
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#Title: Who I am
#Director: Riccardo Bernardi, Kira Metzler
#Choreography: Sita Ostheimer
#Country of Production: Germany
#Year of Production: 2021
#Duration: 00:03:40
#Dance and Acting: Kira Metzler
#Camera: Riccardo Bernardi
#Editing: Riccardo Bernardi
#Music: Sita Ostheimer, ÒRI
#Webpage: intstagram/m.kira/
#Trailer:

PEARL 22, 14.10.2022

Not from Here

Oscar O'Ryan
South Africa 2021
00:04:34

NOT FROM HERE is an ode to the unique South African Karoo landscape. The film follows two visitants, conjured by their circle, as they journey across the barren desert landscapes.
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#Title: Not from Here
#Director: Oscar O'Ryan
#Choreography: Louise Coetzer
#Production: Oscar O'Ryan, Louise Coetzer
#Country of Production: South Africa
#Year of Production: 2021
#Duration: 00:04:34
#Dance and Acting: Farnel Smart, Lee Kotze & the Dance For All InSPIRAtions Youth Dance Company
#Camera: Oscar O'Ryan, Marcel Maarssen
#Editing: Eben Smal
#Sound: Brydon Bolton
#Music: Haezer
#Screenplay: Oscar O'Ryan, Louise Coetzer
#Webpage: www.oscaroryan.com
#Trailer:

POOL SHINE 09.09.15

A Study in Choreography for Camera

Maya Deren
1945
00:03:00

Still aus A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1945. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir A Study in Choreography for Camera was made by Talley Beatty as dancer, and by me as director and photographer. I had felt that in most dance films the restiveness of the camera – with its closeups, its views from the wings, […]
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#Title: A Study in Choreography for Camera
#Director: Maya Deren
#Choreography: Talley Beatty
#Year of Production: 1945
#Duration: 00:03:00
#Dance and Acting: Talley Beatty
#Camera: Hella Heyman, Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
#Editing: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren

POOL SHINE 09.09.15

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Maya Deren
1946
00:15:00

Still aus Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir A ritual is an action distinguished from all others in that it seeks the realization of its purpose through the exercise of form. In this sense ritual is art; and even historically, all art derives from ritual. In ritual, the form is the meaning. More […]
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#Title: Ritual in Transfigured Time
#Director: Maya Deren
#Choreography: Frank Westbrook
#Year of Production: 1946
#Duration: 00:15:00
#Dance and Acting: Rita Christiani, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook, Maya Deren
#Camera: Hella Heyman, Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren
#Editing: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren

POOL SHINE 09.09.15

Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
1943
00:14:00

Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir I started out by thinking in terms of a subjective camera, one that would show only what I could see by myself without the aid of mirrors and which would move through the house as if it were a pair of eyes, pausing with […]
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#Title: Meshes of the Afternoon
#Director: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
#Year of Production: 1943
#Duration: 00:14:00

POOL SHINE 09.09.15

Meditation on Violence

Maya Deren
1948
00:13:00

Still aus Meditation on Violence, 1948. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir From the moment I saw Ch‘ao-li Chi, who performs in the film, do the first few movements from the training exercises of Chinese boxing I felt that it was perfect for film. The Wu Tang school is based on the idea of absorbing the force […]
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#Title: Meditation on Violence
#Director: Maya Deren
#Year of Production: 1948
#Duration: 00:13:00
#Dance and Acting: Ch‘ao-li Chi
#Camera: Maya Deren
#Editing: Maya Deren

POOL SHINE 09.09.15

The Very Eye of Night

Maya Deren
1958
00:15:00

Still aus The Very Eye of Night, 1958. Mit Genehmigung von Re:Voir The laws of macro- and microcosm are alike. Travel in the interior is as a voyage in outer space: we must in each case burst past the circumference of our surface – our here-space and now-time – and, cut loose from the anchorage […]
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#Title: The Very Eye of Night
#Director: Maya Deren
#Choreography: Antony Tudor, Metropolitan Opera Ballet School
#Year of Production: 1958
#Duration: 00:15:00
#Dance and Acting: Philp Salem, Rosemary Williams, Richard Englund, Richard Sandifer, Don Freisinger, Patricia Ferrier, Barbara Levin, Bud Bready, Genaro Gomez
#Camera: Maya Deren
#Editing: Maya Deren
#Sound: Teiji Ito
#Foley: Harrison Starr