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Curious about 3D dance filmmaking? Check out this 6 minute FORA.tv video by Jacob’s Pillow Dance for an introductory primer.  Award-winning filmmakers Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer of Mouvement Perpétuel share their artistic approach and production process using visual examples from their current collaboration with choreographer Crystal Pite and the National Film Board of Canada.  Millar and Szporer describe how a 3D camera works, share their 3D story boards, take us inside the green screen studio with the dancers, and discuss why they are interested in the challenge of creating a stereoscopic experimental dance film incorporating animation.

Can 3D dance film change how audiences experience and participate in dance? What do you think? Comments and links to other 3D dance film insights welcomed.

Jeannette Ginslov has recently launched MoveStream, an online screendance network in cooperation with Marlon Barrios Solano/dance-tech. MoveStream is just getting started but promises to create much-needed information and resources for the dance film community by harnessing media and communication technology to promote dialogue between filmmakers and artists across the globe.

Watch an introductory video here:

Here’s an exciting workshop directed by filmmakers David Hinton (UK) and Alla Kovgan (USA). If you’re in Finland, check it out!

More info:
MADProduction and Muu ry. organizes an intensive one-week workshop on dance and experimental ?lm. Workshop is bringing together different professional artists in the fields of dance, film and performance art and helping these artists to work together and learn to speak the same language when making their artworks. The aim of the workshop is to raise the knowledge and standard of experimental filmmaking in Finland, focusing on using movement, dance and performance art as a source of artistic method with a recognizably proficient outcome. The five day workshop emphasizes the co-operative work with the different disciplines and professional fields; dance, performance art, film, sound, camera, editing. It will deliver various cross-disciplinary exercises in experimental filmmaking. It is geared toward drawing upon the expertise and experience of internationally acclaimed teachers and practitioners in the field.The workshop consists of lectures, viewing selected film excerpts, practical exercises in film making, analyses and feedback. More info on the workshop content and application form will be found from www.loikka.fi

Application deadline 6th August 2010!

August 16-22
Résumé and informal letter of application are due June 30, 2010

EMPAC will present its first summer lab for interactive media in performance this August 16-22, 2010. Directed by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.

The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners, scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing a deeper understanding of composing work focused on real time, interactive or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes (video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography, and directing).

More information on this workshop can be found on the EMPAC website.

There are 13 spaces left in Wayne Sable’s Free Filmmaking Project in the UK.

The project is FREE with the possibility of a travel stipend.

Block 1: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th June, 5th, 12th, 19th 26th July, 2nd, 9th, 16th August (these are Mondays 12 – 4 pm)

Block 2: 29th June, 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th July, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 31st August, 7th, 14th September (these are Tuesdays 12 – 4 pm), The project is funded by the Humber Learning Consortuim, Learning Skills Council and European Social Fund

All sessions take place at the Civic Hanson Street, Barnsley S70 2HZ

Call 01226 327000 ext 130 for more information.