Kinetic Cinema @ Greenspace Presents: Moving with Objects and Architecture Workshop & Screening with Zach Morris Workshop: Choreography for the Camera Tuesday May 3rd 7-10pm In this workshop, multi-disciplinary artist Zach Morris will lead participants through a process of creating site-specific movement works for the camera. A grab-bag of choreographic tactics focus on...
At least two dance film festivals are happening this weekend around the globe: San Francisco Dance Film Festival in California, and LOIKKA in Helsinki, Finland. Although we can't fly you there, we can share with you RAIN, an earlier work directed by Pontus Lidberg, who's...
Below is a clip from Devdas, an epic Bollywood melodrama based on a beloved Hindi novel, which has won many awards - and admirers worldwide - since 2002. The film is directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and stars Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, and Aishwarya Rai in the leading roles. Devdas is being...
Neil Sieling, the curator of the Big Screen Project, asked the filmmakers whose shorts were shown on January 27 during the Dance on Camera Festival whether he could continue to show their shorts in March. Other dance on camera shorts will be shown on the...
DFA's 39th Dance on Camera Festival 2011 JURY PRIZE HONOREES BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA "This captivating documentary reminds us how a body balancing in space and defying gravity is a magical act. A moving and melancholic film that shows the struggles of...
Dance Film Lab: a playing (not proving) ground by Rebecca Whitehurst October 6, 2006 On Monday, October 2nd a group of strangers, linked by their craze for creating dance on camera, gathered one-by-one in a sizeable Williamsburg basement. This basement, aptly tagged The Bunker, boasts a movie screen bigger than my...
