Archive for the ‘UMOVE Festival’ Category
Nordic Visuals*
Sabine Klaus, Scotland, 2009
Footage of live fireworks reanimated into 3-D structures. This prolific artist has another – very different- short work featured in UMOVE’s Surprise Me! category.
*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival
EYE VANISH*
Marisa C. Hayes, France/USA, 2008
Made using a web cam, “Eye Vanish” is a poetic and concise visualization of how new technological mediums have led us to question and alter our sense of privacy. Winner of Movement Media’s July “Public or Private” Videodance Contest.
*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival
Jorge y Valdés go for a walk *
Barbara Benas, USA, 2009
A delightful hand-drawn animation about a man and dog who share a passion for dance. It’s retro-techno style is suited perfectly to banjo music by Kid Koala. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
*Official Selection for UMOVE Touring Festival
Body of Water (Milky Re-mix)*
Susan Marshall, USA, 2008
Body of Water (Milky Re-mix) is one of seven Frame Dances that were created with the idea that the cell phone is a new “proscenium,” and, accordingly, these dances may best be viewed on portable devices such as the iphone.
*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival
Dorsey's Knob (serie Second Live series)*
http://www.vimeo.com/6114912
Foofwa d’Imobilite’, USA/Switzerland, 2008
Made on top of a chilly mountain in West Virginia, the performers in this video take on the behaviors and movements of avatars from Second Life while dealing with and reacting to the harsh realities of “First Life”: (i.e., snow, wind, rocks, and cliffs).
*Official selection for UMOVE Touring Festival.
