Category: PEARLS 22 – 14.10.22

Hofesh Shechter’s iconic stage work Political Mother explodes onto the screen as an UNPLUGGED, unapologetic and exhilarating new short film. From behind the lens, Shechter brings Battersea Arts Centre’s imposing architecture and intimate spaces centre stage, immersing audiences within a fragile world of raw emotions as a group of individuals struggle against the complex structures […]

• #Title: POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut
• #Director: Hofesh Shechter
• #Choreography: Hofesh Shechter
• #Production: Hofesh Shechter Company
• #Country of Production: United Kingdom
• #Year of Production: 2021
• #Duration: 00:36:12
• #Dance and Acting: Jared Brown, Jack Butler, Chieh-Hann Chang, Evelyn Hart, Charles Heinrich, Evelien Jansen, Rosalia Panepinto, Jill Goh Su-Jen, Niek Wagenaar
• #Camera: Hofesh Shechter / Consultant Director of Photography, Sebastian Cort
• #Editing: Todd MacDonald
• #Music: Hofesh Shechter - Musical Collaborators: Nell Catchpole, Yaron Engler
• #Webpage: hofesh.co.uk
• #Trailer: vimeo.com/566157182

Depression, irritability and haze erupted at that moment

• #Title: In an instant
• #Director: Yufan Zhao
• #Choreography: Minyi Wang
• #Production: Yufan Zhao
• #Country of Production: China
• #Year of Production: 2020
• #Duration: 00:02:14
• #Dance and Acting: Minyi Wang
• #Camera: Yufan Zhao
• #Editing: Yufan Zhao
• #Music: Ludwig Göransson
• #Screenplay: Yufan Zhao
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Using as reference the phrase by Arthur Rimbaud, “Je est un autre” (I am another) and the traditional Mayan greeting: “In lak’ech”: I am another you” to which the other responds “Hala ken: You are another me “; I was interested in investigating the idea of the reflection in / of the other, of another […]

• #Title: I AM THE OTHER
• #Director: Rita Stepien, Lucio Alberto Baglivo
• #Choreography: Lucio Alberto Baglivo in collaboration with Peter James
• #Production: LAB
• #Country of Production: Spain
• #Year of Production: 2020
• #Duration: 00:01:11
• #Dance and Acting: Peter James, Lucio A. Baglivo
• #Camera: Rita Stepien
• #Editing: Rita Stepien. Colouring: Laurent Poulain.
• #Sound: Voice: Peter James
• #Music: Aiko
• #Webpage: www.luciobaglivo.com
• #Trailer: youtu.be/EetEfWttC6w

A man dreamt a tiger sitting next to him. In his dream, he was lost in the middle of mountain and faced lots of his alter egos. He struggles to understand, what the meaning of dream was and soon starts to look into himself with slow breath.

• #Title: EUPHORIA
• #Director: Hoyoung Im
• #Choreography: Hoyoung Im
• #Production: umzikssi
• #Country of Production: Germany
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:11:51
• #Dance and Acting: Hoyoung Im
• #Camera: Hoyoung Im
• #Editing: Hoyoung Im
• #Sound: Hoyoung Im
• #Music: Hoyoung Im
• #Screenplay: Hoyoung Im
• #Webpage: umzikssi.wixsite.com/2018
• #Trailer:

Through this creation, we want to highlight the struggle led by Aman, Shakar, Saman, Ibrahim, Emebet, Alain, Nasra and so many other people blocked at the borders in the North of France in the hope of finding refuge by crossing the English Channel in very difficult conditions for a completely uncertain future.
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• #Title: Prisoner of the borders
• #Director: Morgan Eloy, Tia Balacey, Leon Afterbeat
• #Choreography: Tia Balacey
• #Production: moovance
• #Country of Production: France
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:03:07
• #Dance and Acting: Tia Balacey
• #Camera: Morgan Eloy
• #Editing: Morgan Eloy
• #Music: Leon Afterbeat
• #Webpage: www.moovance.dance
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A sensitive dance performed in the unfinished building of Cais das Artes (Vitória, Brazil). The film illustrates an archaeological view that graphs the narratives in movements sedimented in the interrupted modern construction when excavating the future ruins of the complex.
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• #Title: Ruins of the Future
• #Director: Dorottya Czakó
• #Choreography: Bárbara Veronez, Gabriela Moriondo
• #Production: Universidade federal do Espírito Santo
• #Country of Production: Brazil
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:04:50
• #Dance and Acting: Bárbara Veronez, Gabriela Moriondo
• #Camera: Ramon Zagoto
• #Editing: Ramon Zagoto
• #Sound: Marcus Neves
• #Music: Marcus Neves
• #Screenplay: Dorottya Czakó
• #Webpage:
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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
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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
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