Archive for the ‘Low/No Budget’ Category

Melody Box*

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Sabrina Mergey, France, 2008

A dancer and a musician are imprisoned together in their work area where their compulsory relationship devolves into distortion and trickery. One of our longer selections, the punk sensibility of BOX remains consistent in its score, art design, choreography, camera work and editing.

*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival


Improvisation at Pitman Theatre, Alverno College

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Zachary Whittenburg, USA, 2009

This video utilizes Apple iMovie and the .3gp codec to create a once-removed documentation of a single-shot dance improvisation by Zachary Whittenburg.

Sell Out Demos

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Lindsay Drury, USA, 2009

A deadpan how-to on the sell-out, complete with a self-important, pseudo-British voice-over on identity. Includes a fixed camera, masking-taped private parts, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins singing “There’s Something Wrong with You!”

One Step Hickle Dee-Pickle-Dee

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Sabine Klaus, Scotland, 2009

Created for DFA’s “What Moves You 48 Hour Challenge,” this 4th submission by Sabine Klaus was inspired by the same event as Marisa C. Hayes’ “Gaffe“. Intended as an analogy between document loss and memory loss, sound and picture stutter among four elderly people with dementia.

My Beowulf

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Heidi Duckler, USA, 2009

60 seconds isn’t enough time to do justice to what was apparently a rich stage event, with kick ass production values, and a tantalizing smorgasbord of psychologically loaded scenes. Please, professor, don’t make me lie on that bike rack!

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