POOL - MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin
Originating in the Parisian suburbs, Parkour is a “kinetic” art form that involves jumping walls and other obstacles in urban environments. It also evokes the feeling of weightlessness inherent to big cities but which is gradually disappearing. MORE
Lose yourself in the radically different world of wild dolphins as you follow graceful dancers into the deep ocean, surrounded by swirling, chattering, and squawking, at once familiar and unfamiliar. MORE
Ocean’s memories unfolds as an encounter between a dancer and a musician, musing along on a deserted beach.
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A tailor and his wife. A day like any other: old and new customers, one after another. Then she enters. Suddenly a glimpse, a mistake…
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A collaboration with Irish dancers and Riverdance alumni Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding, the video deconstructs Irish dance with a series of percussive movements and sounds.
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POOL will be part of the forum “Tanz medial” at Speicher am Kaufhauskanal in Hamburg on May 18, 2016.
POOL presents a selection of films out of this year’s festival edition at Tanzrauschen 2016 in Wuppertal from January 28-31.
The contemporary dance festival “MOVE! – Krefelder Tage für modernen Tanz” presents a selection of POOL 14 films on Oct. 29, 7.30 pm at Fabrik Heeder.
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, […] MORE
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 […] MORE