Posts Tagged ‘documentaries’

Sabine Klaus (aka Creation Editor) is starting a video documentary program focusing on dance technology in collaboration with Dance-Tech.net and Tendu.tv. The shooting will start in early 2009 and the 22min documentaries will be promoted on dance-tech and screened on Tendu TV in full-length. It will be a great way to get your work promoted and made known for FREE!

She is looking for people who are established or emerging artists working on a project that fuses dance and technology.

Proposal Guidelines:

• include one main contact (even if you are applying as a group), address, email
• 1x A4 detail description of your project (participants, technology, software, techniques and styles used,location, idea, meaning, vision)
• 1x A4 of the applying person’s/group’s biography/ background, please include training, awards, selected performance, sponsors
• plus links to website(s), video clips, images to support your application
• please, apply in English
• there are no restriction: be as creative as you want!
• Yes, you can be a student
• email a Word Document or PDF (pdf preferred!) under 10MB to info@creationeditor.co.uk by December 16th, 2008 noon (Greenwich Mean Time).
• and put into email subject: “Dance Technology Promo”!

More info:
Sabine Klaus CE Ba Msc
www.creationeditor.co.uk
info@creationeditor.co.uk

Tonight’s Kinetic Cinema program, curated and hosted by dance critic Elizabeth Zimmer is not to be missed! She will be showing two rarely seen documentaries, including 1987’s “The Way Things Go,”  showing a fascinating Rube Goldberg-like kinetic sculpture by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and a 2007 documentary on six downtown dance artists moderated and interviewed by Zimmer.

Please note the new location below:

Pentacle Movement Media & Collective:Unconscious co-present:
Kinetic Cinema
Monday October 6th, 7:00pm (and the first Monday of every month)
$5 Admission (buy tix at the door)

IRT Theater
154 Christopher Street, Suite 3B (btw Washington & Greenwich Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212.206.6875
Trains: 1 to Christopher Street, PATH to Christopher Street
Admission: $5
Space is extremely limited, so get there early!

Next Monday, Oct 6th you won’t want to miss veteran dance critic Elizabeth Zimmer at Kinetic Cinema. As the editor of the seminal book “Envisioning Dance On Film and Video” (Routledge, 2002), Elizabeth Zimmer has researched and grappled with issues of mediatized dance extensively. For her Oct 6th program she will show two documentaries that offer very different approaches to movement for screen.

The evening will include “The Way Things Go”, an award-winning film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, that documents the chain-reactive performance of a 100 foot long kinetic sculpture made entirely of common household objects (click here for a teaser on YouTube). The second half of the program will  feature two rarely-seen volumes of a documentary project Elizabeth Zimmer appeared in and assisted on entitled “Downtown Dance-New York 2007″. The footage includes interviews with downtown dance favs Ivy Baldwin, Trajal Harrell, Keely Garfield, Larry Keigwin, RoseAnne Spradlin, and David Parker, shows samples of their work, and has brief introductions by Elizabeth.

Pentacle Movement Media & Collective:Unconscious co-present:
Kinetic Cinema
Monday October 6th, 7:00pm (and the first Monday of every month)
$5 Admission (buy tix at the door)

IRT Theater
154 Christopher Street, Suite 3B (btw Washington & Greenwich Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212.206.6875
Trains: 1 to Christopher Street, PATH to Christopher Street
Admission: $5

Kinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month I invite a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Next month on Nov 3rd, the collaborative duo, Kerrie Welsh & Sasha Welsh will show films and videos that have influenced their new multimedia performance “Trace Decay.”

Kinetic Cinema is part of Movement Media, my new project at Pentacle that provides screenings, consulting services, and online interactive programs for dancers about dance and media. More information will be available soon online at pentacle.org.

An announcement from Deirdre Towers at the Dance Films Association:

The Film Society is offering the affiliate price for DFA members at this week’s series of

Ballet Cineaste: Dominique Delouche (July 23-27)
Walter Reade Theater, Upper Plaza, 65th Street
(btw Broadway and Amsterdam Aves)
tix and info: http://filmlinc.org/

Dominique Delouche has devoted much of his working life to filming great
dancers who illuminated his youth, to preserve the tradition as well as
the memory of the dance from one generation to the next. This is the first
American retrospective of the dance filmmaker, whose devotional tone,
always sparked with humor, gave his career its special place. For further
information and to purchase tickets, please visit filmlinc.com. DFA staff
and members can purchase a pair of tickets at the discount price of $7
each. When buying online please select the affiliate ticket option. These
can be picked up from the Walter Reade Theater box office. If you buy
tickets directly from the box office please print out this email or give
the code DFADD08 to the box office to get the discount.

Deirdre says: “I can’t go unfortunately because I will be presenting dance on camera in
Burgos, Spain but I urge you to go. Dominique Delouche is a charming man
and he will be there to speak at all the screenings. My favorite one of
his films is KATIA & VOLODIA.”