After an exceptional, you might say, absurd conversation with the Moscow-based dancer and physicist Violetta Morozenko, she was asked what she would like to do next. Creative, absurd, simple and with a tactile attention to sound and movement.
Year
2017
Duration
7 min.
Director
Ben Stamper
Country of production
Russia
Premiere
World premiere
Through Jann
Jann Gallois, 29 years old, is a dancer and choreographer, and energetic as a bulldozer. Her body is her instrument but sometimes it fails her. Jann constantly seeks balance between a questioning mind and a body that doesn’t always listen.
Year
2019
Duration
25 min.
Director
Claire Juge
Choreographer
Jann Gallois
Country of production
France
Premiere
Dutch premiere
Thank you Lord
An extraordinary insight into the Laestadian trance in Sámi, the Scandinavian region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. A religious ceremony unfolds in which Sámi women undergo a transcendent experience.
Year
2019
Duration
7 min.
Director
Elle Sofe Sara
Choreographer
Elle Sofe Sara
Country of production
Norway
Premiere
Dutch premiere
Canning Town
Fabiola and her Mother moved to Canning Town London from Portugal in 2008. In 2018 they moved out. This film honours those 10 years by making a dance with the forces of union and separation - between two lovers, a mum and daughter, a country and its continent.
Year
2019
Duration
11 min.
Director
Fabiola Santana Will Dickie
Choreographer
Fabiola Santana Will Dickie
Country of production
United Kingdom
Premiere
Dutch premiere
Sandwichmaker
Disregarding classic conventions of filming and narrative, this raw and free-spirited documentary offers reflections on the essence of dance in life, meditation and sandwich making.
Year
2019
Duration
17 min.
Director
Ramazi Baranov
Country of production
Russia
Premiere
No premiere
Short Docs
A selection of documentary shorts, from portraits to real life narratives, entangled with fantasy and an attention to the meta-physical. The programme is accompanied by a Q&A with the makers.