Limas

Utopicas Moyra Silva Peru

The film explores our particular interpretation of “utopia” as a starting point and trigger to defy, with movements, Lima city’s status quo. Fifteen Limeñxs– representing a wide variety of ages, occupations and socio-cultural backgrounds– express their visions of utopia using their bodies and group compositions in this site-specific video dance piece. Working collectively, we explored how to challenge, in small and varied ways, different aspects of the urban status quo in Lima– a city slowly overcoming and redefining a traumatic past with terrorism and public spaces. The video features collective movement and sound compositions created by Fournet and Silva in collaboration with the fifteen workshop participants.

Directors: Moyra Silva (Peru) and Adele Fournet (EEUU)

CDFF Official Selection Films

85 submissions | 34 countries | 13 selected films | 3 awarded films

Thirteen films were selected as CDFF 2022 Official Selection and three will be awarded with the Grand Jury Film, CDFF Award and Audience Choice Award. The films were carefully chosen based on their artistic merit and unique approach towards the environmental theme of CDFF 2022: The crises that move us. The official selection films are distinctive, compelling and well-balanced in featuring dance on cinema. The Grand Jury Prize exhibits overall excellence in the craft of dance filmmaking and responds in a new way to the environment as a theme.

What is the relationship between dance and cinema… between the body and the image?

Artistic director of ChoréACtif, Clotilde Amprimoz, will guide participants through a collaborative and hands-on workshop for making screendance together. The purpose is to share a creative moment of learning about ourselves and others while exploring different approaches of screendance, film and dance.

In two hours, participants will have the opportunity to reinterpret cinema from a choreographic point of view and cultivate an interest in the empathy of movement, the delicate relationships between our body, our perception, our emotions and the images that shape us internally and externally.

Clotilde Amprimoz

Working with the fields of contemporary dance, image and music, Clotilde Amprimoz has been designing and participating in choreographic and cinematographic projects since 2001. She is an activist in the collaborative process of creation by realization of artistic projects with territories or people excluded from art and culture. She promotes in these collaborative creations the development of everyone through emotion and artistic achievement. Her collaborative creations in a slow-down process, produced by ChoréACtif association in "Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes" region, enhance the material and immaterial heritage, especially human one (work, memory/ies, links between people and environment...), Homo Laborans (2011-2018), Shores (2013-2020), My Heritage, are you alive in #Thiers? (2016-2018), Smith'project (2019-2020). Clotilde has been invited to events, workshops or conferences to talk about dance and image by different institutions, universities and festivals.

Credits

Festival Art & Visual design

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Video Editor Navya Sah

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