Projects in genres: Dance

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'Do you love me?', 'Yes', he said, and then - a colourful musical journey into the narrative of a woman’s tangled past, with magical glimpses of her present world and hopes for a liberated future.

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Whilst watching Chunky pretend to be sick on The Goonies, Ladyscraper starts to be sick all over his appartment. He starts to take off his clothes but he continues to be sick outside, on the street, in car parks, green lanes and canals - until he sees Chunky's clothes lying, abandoned in a park. When he puts the clothes on he feels much better.

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This current work continues to explore the interrelation between body, space and movements. Conceptualized as a split-screen projection. A naked female figure enters into the low-lit studio space and starts a playful improvisation triggered by her magnified reflection projected on the floor. The work explores the complexity of reality and space. The place of the body in a fragmented multi-layered world. The piece has been inspired by Jean Cocteau's 'Orphee' (1950).

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The film explores themes in Rilke's poem - Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes' . The narrative is concerned with the mental and physical experience of Eurydice while she is in the Underworld waiting to be rescued and is expressed through dance, drama and music.

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Legendary jazz guitar great Pat Martino underwent brain surgery that saved his life but erased all memory, emotion and the ability to play. THere he shouldhave remained yet, after years in the wilderness, he came back with such astonishing power and artistry as to bring into question all the known medical facts. Neuropsycologist Paul Broks explores the mysteries of memory, self and creativity underlying the human condition. Martino provides the sublime soundtrack.
 

 

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Mi Piace is a film of made with the documentation of one performance to camera, where during a spurious singing rehearsal, the singer's body is progressively bound to test the changes in the voice. The film leaves ambiguity as to the exact nature of the events, which are presented as a diverse collection of documentation, hence suggesting a history.

The singer is asked to perform repeatedly a popular aria (O Mio Babbino Caro), at each repetition (itself interrupted in mid flow at different points) the singer's body is bound, starting from the ankles, and proceeding upwards. The section isolated in the soundtrack Mi Piace, is part of the aria and means  like' or in its original context 'I would like to'.

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Teenagers hang out by the floodlit running tracks at night.

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This documentary follows a year in the life Isabela and Irlan two aspiring ballet dancers who engage daily in a clash between two worlds: rich and poor, black and white. Ballet is an art form steeped in the history of the wealthy white elite, and many feel that the likes of Irlan Santos da Silva and Isabela Coracy, two black kids from poor backgrounds, don't belong. Despite the constant prejudice and doubt, both are determined to follow their ambitions. For them, dance is a way out, an escape and on stage an ecstasy, that is rarely found in their tough day to day lives. The question is can they make it?

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What can be expressed through music, which cannot be expressed in words? Tabea Zimmermann, the world famous violist, shares her thoughts and emotions about life in music. A discussion on the complexities of expression and art, which culminates in a touching and revealing portrait of one of today's greatest performers.

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A radioactive object sets off a novel unreeling of events amongst some pond life. A unique marriage of sound and vision this idiosyncratic film presents its imagery in the manner of a musical arrangement with cyclical visual devices that repeat and distort.

The irregular sequence of events is both dark and vibrant within a film that is at once experimental and accessible.

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Unfolding in three chapters of rare intimacy and candour, Tres Pesos offers an insight into the everyday lives of young Cuban reggaeton musicians. Living in the neglected outskirts of Havana, the musicians who rap and jam together share a relentless hunger for success despite the poverty of their daily existence.

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This triptych film uses archive industrial and documentary footage to follow the endless chug of the conveyer belt of life. Images of production lines, factories, and educational and creative industries, are sandwiched to illustrate the endless whirr of activity in our pursuit of meaning and happiness.