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ArtPower presents
Tren azull cincuentas Directed by Rocío Becerril Porras (Mexico)
Dance Camera West & Movimiento en Movimiento October 28, 2021 at 8 pm Live Stream Online
Persistanz Directed by Juan Carlos Gallego Gil (Colombia) Entre OjosStephanie Sherman, Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez , Melissa Castro (Mexico/USA) El ciclo del viento Directed by Josue Hermes y Ana del Aire (Mexico) Pellejo Directed by Federico M. Panizza (Argentina) Wuuac Directed by Alfredo Madrigal (Mexico) Chapter 5 Directed by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (Brazil/Canada) Excessive Bodies – Absent Bodies Directed by Stéphanie Janaina (Mexico) We Are All On The Same Bus Directed by Nuno Serrão (Portugal) Escaleras sin fin Directed by Margarita Bali (Argentina)
ArtTalk Join us post-screening for a live Q&A with Kelly Hargraves (Artistic/Executive Director of Dance Camera West), Yolanda M. Guadarrama (Diretor of Movimiento en Movimient), Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (Director, Chapter 5), Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez (Entre), and moderated by Jordan Peimer (Executive Director, ArtPower).
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About Movimiento en Movimiento MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO: “Creando adicciones y dependencias a la danza para la pantalla” es el lema del Festival Internacional de Danza para la Pantalla MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO que tiene su sede en México y desde 2013: —muestra obras de screendance tradicional y experimental —se interesa en contenidos relacionados con literartura, filosofía, Dance / Virtual Event
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humanismo —mantiene abierta su GALERÍA PERMANENTE VIRTUAL con más de 250 obras excepcionales —premia las mejores obras nacionales e internacionales —es bienal a partir de 2020. Más información: (bit.ly/movenmov) (tiny.one/mem-eng) (FB & IG: @movenmov) (TW: @MovEnMov) "Creating addictions and dependencies to screendance" is the motto of the International Screendance Festival MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO that has been celebrated in Mexico since 2013. It screens works of traditional and experimental screendance. It’s interested in content related with literature, philosophy, humanism. It includes a PERMANENT VIRTUAL GALLERY with more than 250 exceptional works. It awards the best national and international films. It celebrated its biennial in 2020.
About Dance Camera West Dance Camera West aims to foster groundbreaking talent and to encourage new work in the are of dance film by supporting creation, presentation and distribution of films. DCW presents an annual international festival held at renowned arts venues throughout Los Angeles, and informative and educational events throughout the year, to bring dance to the world beyond the stage and through the language of film.
About the Speakers Yolanda M. Guadarrama Yolanda M. Guadarrama. Movimiento en Movimiento Director, engineer, dancer, choreographer, audiovisual creator, coeditor of MOHO Magazine and Editorial. She is dedicated to the creation, exhibition and promotion of screendance, she made her first sceendance in 1994. She was cofounder of Motion festival in Berlin, 2008. She has been a curator for RIFF festival, Norway for six years. She was a Screendance judge at LIFF, UK in 2017. Her work AILING ANIMAL obtained honorable mention in Agite y Sirva ,2015. POTATO EATERS obtained first place as an experimental short at the Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival in 2018. Her works have been exhibited in several international festivals. She is a member of RED IBEROAMERICANA DE VIDEODANZAScreendance Iberoamerican Net (REDIV). (www.yolandamguadarrama.com) Kelly Hargraves Kelly Hargraves is a dance film creator and curator from Canada who currently lives in Los Angeles. In September 2018 she was named the Executive and Artistic Director of Dance Camera West, after co-founding the Los Angeles festival of dance film in 2001. Kelly has a Masters in Dance Film from NYU (with a concentration in Dance and Film History), an Honours BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University and an Honours BA in Communication Studies (with a Minor in Theater History) from the University of Windsor.
About the Films Tren azull cincuentas
Rocío Becerril Porras (Mexico) 10:16 min. Synopsis: Carlos and Carmela leave on a train, they’re the cream of progress. We are in the fifties, in the Mcarthyism times, cold war and memories of the second world war that come back from time to time. People dress well, they work a lot, even too much, to the 4
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point of satiety. The machines that surround them are silent witnesses of their bodies thirsty for freedom, self assurance and happiness, but we should always keep those appereances, except that particular day inside an intense train in cold blue color. Director: Rocío Becerril Choreographers: Rocío Becerril and Francisco Alarcón Writer: Rocío Becerril Producer: Reel trip Productions. Key Cast: Araceli Mendoza, Francisco Alarcón, Carlos Ramírez, Carlos Correa, Angélica Baños, Clementina Guadarrama Rocío Becerril Porras Choreographer. Rocío completed her masters degree in video and dance at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Her works have been outlined, since the beginning, as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary scenic proposals, where dance, filmic image, painting, and sculpture have a privileged place. In 1996 she founded the company R + R arte y movimiento. Literature, philosophy and science have inspired her, achieving in her career over 30 interdisciplinary scenic and audiovisual works. Her choreographic and videodance production has been presented in Mexico, Montreal, Brazil, Spain, Uruguay and Cuba. Her work in collaboration with plastic and sound artists has enabled her to venture into choreographic installation concepts and interventions in unconventional spaces. rociobecerril.blogspot.com Vimeo: Rocío Becerril FB: Rocío Becerril
Persistanz
Juan Carlos Gallego Gil (Colombia) 6:43 min Synopsis: a breakfast is the meeting point for a couple, which is immersed in a particular atmosphere: He wants to leave, she does not… Production: YuKa media lab. Script and direction: Juan Carlos Gallego. Performers Creators: Laisvie Andrea Ochoa. Jeferson Palacio. Choreography: Laisvie Andrea Ochoa. Jeferson Palacio. Juan Carlos Gallego. Assistant Director: Daniel Castro. Assembly and Completion: Daniel Castro. Juan Carlos Gallego. Direction of photography: Andres Felipe Gallego. Sound and Music: Jorge Andres Granados. General Assistants: Santiago Carreño. Natalia Munar. Music: Copyleft. Juan Carlos Gallego Gil Professor in performing arts with an emphasis on acting at Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá-ASAB-Universidad Distrital. Actor, dancer, and audiovisual director. He has participated in academic and artistic events in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. He has participated in the co-direction of Bogotá pa’l mundo, short winner in the Zootropo Dance / Virtual Event
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Film Festival, silver in the artistic contribution category. He directed the short films Toñito, La esquina del movimiento, in-transito, Winner of Festival Videomovimiento 2012 (Colombia) and Honorable Mention in Concurso Nacional de Cortometrajes Plasma en Corto 2012 (México), and Persistanz winner of Festival Videomovimiento 2016. He is currently co-founder of YuKa-Media Lab, as director and screenwriter. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRzgpBNCkyjrlA1WeKK7FA
Entre Ojos
Stephanie Sherman, Michal Hall B. R., Melissa Castro (Mexico/USA) 6:16 min Synopsis: this film is a collaboration with and an homage to El Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexicano in one of Mexico City’s most popular neighborhoods, Colonia Doctores. It houses tens of thousands of industrial-age Mexican toys. A broken Mexican doll comes to life in the basement of the museum, and searches for her identity amongst the other dolls, robots, toys and paintings in the bizarre old art Deco building. Discovering a lucha libre cape, she takes on superpowers, jumps from the rooftop, and becomes one with the barrio below. Edition: Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez Photography: Paloma Martinez Cast: Melissa Castro Original Music: Santiago Vergara Choreography: Melissa Castro and Stephanie Sherman Storyboard: Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez, Melissa Castro and Stephanie Sherman Location: El Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexican www.stephanie-sherman.com http://museodeljuguete.mx https://hallmikie935.wordpress.com/author/hallmikie935 https://www.palomamartinezfilm.com/ Stephanie Sherman Stephanie is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, teacher, and bilingual poet with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. From 2018–19, she received a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship to explore the intersections of gender, blindness, and embodied movement at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and with Teatro Ciego in Mexico City. In 2006, she received a Fulbright scholarship to choreograph dance-theater in Ecuador, and in 2007, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has been faculty at Mexico’s Academia de la Danza Mexicana of its National Institute of Fine Arts as well as visiting professor at UDLAP. Michal Hall Bravo Ramírez Michal is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work concentrates on women’s experiences of sexuality, family, gender, and contemporary culture. She studied screenwriting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and digital cinema at Cinefilias in Mexico City. She is currently writing a feature-length drama and working on producing/directing a narrative short, Keys. 6
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Melissa Castro Melissa is a mexican artist intrested in dance as a visual an experiencial art with a B.A. in Dance from Universidad de las Américas Puebla. She performed for the playwright Xavier Villanova in La retórica del Silencio. In 2017, Melissa with Michelle García were choreographers of the Alejadro Ricaño‘s play Fractales directed by Martín Balmaceda; and in 2018 she performed at the International Dance Forum: Performática with the Charles Anderson‘s piece Secuelas. Her piece Sigo en ceguera was shown at International Dance Day Festival organized by UNAM in 2019. Now she‘s based in Mexico City, where she's been dancer in Arantza Rosas‘s Camino (2019), and in the performance Intervención: Índigo by Laura Anderson Barbata Chris Walker‘s choreography (2020).
El ciclo del viento
Josue Hermes y Ana del Aire (Mexico) 3:13 min Synopsis: Only change remains, breathe, feel, move; we are made up of imperfections, let the breath of the wind reconfigure them, building a different being, in a new click. 2018. Direction: Josue Hermes & Ana del Aire Choreography: Ana del Aire Photography: Josue Hermes Music: Fernando Aguirre Sound Design: Quirophone Estudio Photo ja: David Arroyo Josue Hermes Director and scriptwriter who has developed in narrative fiction cinema, he studied filmmaking at AMCI-UDC and specialized in directing at EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. He has won post-production support from IMCINE with his Tras de ti project and was supported by the IMACP Artistic Innovation Grant with his project La Danza de las Ninfas, a visual poem that links expanded cinema and dance. In 2016 he carried out various video dance projects, among them, Hypernova was selected in the experimental category within the Primer Festival Internacional de Coorporalidad Expandida in Argentina, in 2017. Crugh Num is an official selection in Festival Itinerante de videodanza Agite y Sirva. Ana del Aire Dancer and choreographer. She is currently pursuing a degree in dance at BUAP. She danced folk dance for 8 years. She recently participated with the lecture The importance of the early connection with the arts, within the framework of the 4th Colloquium “Pies para volar danza infancia y juventud” in Mexico City. Her project Trinomio Escénico was part of the opening program of the Foro Teatral D'Los, a group where they explore forms of scenic creation and exploration of movement. Since 2017, she has been part of the creative organization Tripulantes, which in 2018 won the opportunity to represent Puebla in the First Regional Dance Show and they are currently preparing the work Parallel Lives.
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Pellejo
Federico M. Panizza (Argentina) 8:45 min. Synopsis: there will be no peace for those who prevent the furs from dying with whom they were born. Credits Script and Direction: Federico M. Panizza Cast: Julieta Ranno, Soledad Belén, Virna Funaro, Renee Turkenich, Alejandra Ceriani Music: Ramiro Mansilla Pons Federico M. Panizza Federico M. Panizza is an audio-visual artist born in La Plata Argentina in 1981. Winner of the International festival VideodanzaBA, in Argentina.
Wuuac
Alfredo Madrigal. Mexico. 2:56 min. Synopsis: In ancient Baja California Sur, the Pericues believed that Niparaya lived in heaven, creator of heaven and earth, who in a great battle expelled Wuuac, took all his pitayas from him, and locked him in a cave guarded by whales. Only the Guamas (sorcerers) know how to summon him to the surface and win his favor. Director: Alfredo Madrigal García Production: Cecilia ELizabeth Ortega Hernandez, Alfredo Madrigal, Amparo García Director of Photography: Alfredo Madrigal Performer and talent: Salim Lara Sound Design: Cesar Franco Production Assistance: Alejandro Espindola, Ivan Gómez, Zaida Ríos, Nereida Gómez, Paola Carballo Alfredo Madrigal Alfredo, originally from La Paz, B.C.S. A cinephile since he was a child and a musician since his youth, he traveled to Mexico City to continue his studies at a higher level in classical guitar. It is there that he decides to follow the path of cinematography and work from production assistant to cinematographer and colorist.
Chapter 5
Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (Brazil/Canada) 15 min. Synopsis: Chapter 5 is a screen dance film about a young man battling drug addiction and the tenuous balance between pleasure and self-demise. “Chapter 5 , I wanted to speak out on the issue of addiction as a way of healing the pain loved ones very dear to me went through, and unfortunately, lost their battle to this terrible predicament. With dialog replaced by movement, visuals, and a wealth of sounds Chapter 5 is visceral and painful.” Director: Rodrigo Rocha-Campos Performer and Choreographer: Arash Khakpour Composer: Will Meadows 8
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Prod Designer: Skye Dyken Director of Photography: Robert Riendeau Rodrigo Rocha-Campos Rodrigo has been teaching the art and technique of camera and lighting for over 15 years as an educator in film schools in Vancouver, BC and in Florida, United States. To this date, Rodrigo has directed and produced five screen dance short films with growing international exposure and currently he’s in development of his next project. https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1056091
Excessive Bodies – Absent Bodies Stéphanie Janaina (Mexico) 1:53 min
Synopsis: excessive bodies - absent bodies Creation: Stéphanie Janaina Stéphanie Janaina Stéphanie is a performer and choreographer with studies in dance, fine arts and film. Her projects are characterized by a search for fragility in its possible manifestations between resistance, violence and displacement. Janaina is a founding member of the Itinerant Library of Choreography; of the group ¡miércoles! together with the Chilean musician Nicolás Jaar; and colectivo Circular un proyecto, a project that aims to make visible the problem of forced displacement in Mexico. Janaina was also a producer for Festival4x4 from 2015 to 2018. www.stephaniejanaina.com
We Are All On The Same Bus Nuno Serrão (Portugal) 2 min.
Synopsis: If we consider Einstein’s space-time, we end up with a concept where everything and every time is understood inside. Through it, we are driven by a vehicle, we will call a bus, completely autonomous, that goes in a single direction, forward, and has a single window, the rear. This vehicle, astronomer Arthur Eddington called The Arrow of Time. In this journey, some of us are more awake than others, and artists have a special role to play in the way the journey turns out. Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editing: Nuno Serrão Key Cast: Luis Daio Producers: Urbanistas, Andreia Azevedo, Nuno Barcelos Nuno Serrão "Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, and filmmaker interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared, and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants.”—Kate Simpson, Aesthetica Magazine, 2019 www.nunoserrao.com www.instagram.com/nunoserrao Dance / Virtual Event
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Escaleras sin fin
Margarita Bali (Argentina) 20 min Synopsis: the idea of this work, Escaleras sin Fin-2 (Stair/Cases-2), was originated from certain disturbing concepts in the universe of the artist M. C. Escher; choreographic situations are developed in staircases of the past and the present, diverse characters climbing, competing, climbing to reach an objective, the highest scale… and then falling again. A line of time and life, a fantasy metaphor constructed through a methodology of geometric editing, in close harmony with the contemporary music of the Mexican Composer Carlos Sánchez Gutiérrez. This work was made in the special circumstance of an Arthur W. Mellon artistic residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, the inspiration came from the variety of stairs that the city unfolds. Escaleras sin Fin-2 has been created to conceive a story “site specific” of movement in video format. Director: Margarita Bali Assistant Director: Hallie Scott Music: Carlos Sanchez Gutierrez (Ex-Machina) Costumes: Michele Lesniak Cameras: Rachel Green and Margarita Bali Choreography: Margarita Bali and the interpreters Video editing: Margarita Bali Production and location manager: Hallie Scott Production: Jana Browne, Elizabeth Duffel, Juliet Mc Mains, Jennifer Salk Financing: artistic residency with Arthur W Mellon Scholarship at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. Performers: Sophia Arnall, Shane Donohue, James Fesalbon, Dolly Huang, Timothy Johnson, Leslie Kraus, Kyki Li, Rachel Lincoln, Juliet McMains, Tessa Magnuson, Robert Moore, Austin Nguyen, Pam Olson, Zakk Rahman, Fausto Rivera, Jordan Rohrs, Lea Russel, Hallie Scott, Pamela Schick, Serafina Shi, Brandin Steffinsen, Za Thomaier, Connie Villenes. Margarita Bali Choreographer, videographer, video-installations, and videomapping director. Graduated in Biology from University of California Berkeley. Codirector of the Argentinian company Nucleodanza with 25 years of international experience. Guggenheim Scholarship 1998, Scholarship Bucharest 2001. Awards: Alexander Onassis Foundation, Athens 2000; Faena de Arte y Tecnologia 2006; AACA Germaine Derbecq 2006; 2nd Gyula Kosice Biennial Prize 2012; Trayectoria en Danza, Fondo Nacional Artes 2017; Arthur Thur Mellon Foundation 2018 Scholarship in the U.S.A. Last choreographic works: Pizzurno Pixelado (architectural mapping and live performance), Ojo al Zoom (interactive), Galaxias y Hombre Rebobinado. Video installations: La Duna es Movil, Medusas III, Pulmotor, El Acuario Electrónico, Vuelo Rasante. She has made 12 screendance pieces with numerous prizes. www.margaritabali.com www.facebook.com/estudiodedanza.margaritabali
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