Short Docs: Faces and Causes
Cinedans Festival 2022
From barbers dancingin Brazil to encounters with whales, full of fantasy, humour, vigour and tenderness, this out-of-competition section offers a panoramic view on dance and our human experience. We include longer shorts, documentaries and performance relays and we hope you get carried away by every single story.
Forest Floor
Director:Robbie Synge
Choreography: Robbie Synge
Year completed: 2019
Country of production: United Kingdom
Duration: 4:45
Shot in Cairngorm National Park in Scotland, Forest Floor considers different bodies and physical access challenges in a rural location. Close friends and performance artists Robbie Synge and Julie Cleves try to overcome access barriers and dance together in a forest setting.
Salt and Sugar
Director: Jj Abraham
Choreography: Hemabharathy Palani
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: United Kingdom, India
Duration: 22:24
Salt and Sugar begins with a memory. A comment from her mother about her dark skin reveals to Hema the impossible gap between who she is and who society demands her to be. This intimate story speaks of the complexities of Indian culture, through classical Indian dance, contemporary movement and spoken word.
DON'T PLAY WITH L(KN)IVES
Director: Omari Carter
Choreography: Brooke Milliner
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: United Kingdom
Duration: 14:58
Don’t Play with L(Kn)ives explores knife crime in the UK. Bringing together some of the UK’s finest hip hop dancers, a live violinist & a spoken word artist, the film shines a light on this taboo aspect of British culture – sharing untold stories to deliver a poignant message to young people.
In Search of Sanctuary
Director: Camilla Greenwell
Choreography: James Cousins
Year completed: 2020
Country of production: United Kingdom
Duration: 6:36
For dancers, who’s daily lives involved hours of being in close proximity with each other, 2020 brought a monumental shift. In this series of portraits, we follow four dancers who share their intimate process of healing, exploring and adapting to new ways of working and interacting.
Rooms
Director: Elysa Wendi, Jiekai Liao
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: Singapore
Duration: 16:44
For over three decades, Albert Tiong pushed towards his goal of being an eminent dancer, choreographer and educator. Through this journey, he discovers that his personal spaces of safety for his body and mind have protected him as much as moulded him. An elusive memoir through physical and metaphorical rooms.
Body Language: Bill Shannon
Director: Leo Pfeifer
Choreography: Bill Shanon
Year completed: 2021
Country of production: United States
Duration: 4:34
Feather-light, weightless and transcendent are some words used to describe Bill Shannon’s singular style of dance. The Pittsburgh-based artist has captivated audiences for decades with a hybrid virtuosity that combines choreography and skateboarding with special rocker-bottom crutches used for congenital foot deformity. A film commissioned by Nowness and Jacob's Pillow.
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Production year
2022
Length
76 min.
Country
NL
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Cinedans 2022
In five full days, Cinedans presents the state of the art of international dance film in partnership with dancescreen - IMZ International Music + Media Center Vienna.
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