Evening of Dance Film
Kino Film Europe – Pistoriho palác
Cena: 6
The cooperation between the Bratislava in Movement Festival and the Prague Dance Film
Festival has its own tradition. The curated program of the evening of dance films this year
will offer a collection of works with a very diversified poetics. Dance films are a realm of
artistic freedom and strong creative concepts. The offered collection will be a clear proof of
that. The genre selection ranges from fantasy dance comedy to docu-metaphor to dark
horror mirage. Seven films and each one is different.
An evening with the Prague Dance Film Festival
BAILAORA (Spain)
Directed by: Rubin Stein
Premiére 2019
A dreamy horror picture in the backdrop of war.
HERBARIUM (Poland)
Directed by: Iwona Pasińska
Premiere 2021
HERBARIUM is the fifth choreographic film directed by Iwona Pasinska. It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.
SHELLS (Czech Republic)
Directed by: Marie-Magdalena Kochová
Premiere 2022
The elevator of the nursing home turn into the stage as the old dancer explores the limits of his body, memory and the passage of time. Trapped between four walls, he must face the helplessness of his own languish shell. Starring Jan Minařík, the soloist of Pina Bausch theatre and the greatest Czech dancer of the 20th century.
PARK (Argentina)
Directed by: Iván Asnicar, Ailén Cafiso
Premiére 2022
A park. Two bodies dance looking for the exit.
Through the tour they find fantastic and real situations.
The movement will carry them forward into the next age.
A labyrinthine passage from Dance in the Park.
REMINISCENCES (Canada)
Directed by: Virginie Brunelle
Premiere 2022
This dance short film brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.
VIVALDIS (France)
Directed by: Philippe Decouflé
Premiere 2019
After many years, French choreographer Philippe Decouflé returns to the Savoy Alps. In 1992, he staged the ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, an unforgettable magical spectacle. Now, in the Vanoise Nature Park at 2,400 metres, he has made a triptych of dance films that benefit from the majesty of Alpine springtime nature contrasted with the neoclassical dance aesthetic, the fanciful costumes and the thrilling vivacity of Vivaldi’s compositions. Pythagoreanism, wit, visual fantasy – this is Decouflé on screen as we have known him since his famous dance films Le P’tit Bal (1993) and Codex (1995).
OLD MAN AT THE CORNER STORE (USA)
Directed by: Nadav Heyman
Premiere 2023
An elderly man finds himself in the crosshairs of the neighborhood mischiefs.