Dance Films Association • 48 West 21st St., #907 • New York, NY 10010.
info at dancefilms dot org • http://www.dancefilms.org • ph 212.727.0764

FLESH INTO LIGHT: THE FILMS OF AMY GREENFIELD
by ROBERT HALLER

published by Intellect Books (www.intellectbooks.com) with US distribution by University Of Chicago Press

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave, NYC
April 30, 2012
7PM
Tickets $9, No reservations

The evening will begin with a screening of a selection of Greenfield’s award-winning pioneering and recent cine-dance and video-dance, highlighted by the premiere of BodySongs. In 1979 Greenfield was commissioned by WGBH TV’s Dance Workshop to make a video dance for broadcast.  Greenfield asked cinema verite pioneer filmmaker/cinematographer Richard Leacock to do camera. The theme: male/female interactions. They shot a clothed version for broadcast and a nude version for themselves.  WGBH found even the clothed version too raw for broadcast. When Leacock passed away in 2011, Greenfield  revisited the nude video dance footage, restored it on today’s technology,  and found in it a new concept of   timeless nude duets as moving image art:  BodySongs.

Also among the films being screened:  MUSEic Of The BODy (2010), edited from Greenfield’s 1994 multimedia performance with video art pioneer Nam June Paik, for which she garnered a Best in The Arts in the New York Times (“ Nude attacks piano with long strand of pearls. Magical! Unforgettable!” Dunning);  the underground classic Element (“ Greenfield rolls and seethes and plunges in a field of mud, her hair, her face, her body not just slathered with it, but become part of it. I am impressed!”  Jowitt, Village Voice), and Wildfire  (“ An ode to the female body” Berlin Film Festival, “A surreal masterpiece, the beauty rises to the level of intoxication”, Williamsburg Film Festival). The dancers’ movements, transformed by virtuoso digital editing, channel  the 1894 Loie Fuller-esque first dance film, Thomas Edison’s   “Annabelle”.

Greenfield and Haller will be present to answer questions and sign Flesh into Light at the reception following the screening.

In celebrating Greenfield’s work, Flesh Into Light both articulates essential principles of  cine-dance through her films. They re-invent dance as fundamental human motion not just for the camera, but as and inseparable from cinema. “For Greenfield, the body moving with and against the close-up camera can be the concrete image of inner human nature, an instrument for its expression and a vessel containing images and actions that crystalize the meanings and mysteries of experience: movement and memory, the past and the present moment.”  Robert Haller, Flesh Into Light)

Amy Greenfield is an internationally award-winning filmmaker/choreographer and performer. Cineaste Magazine calls her “the most important person making experimental film dance today.”  She is a pioneer of film/video dance. The Museum Of Modern Art in their Exhibition, Video Art A History cites her as having in the early ‘70s  “…developed a new form of video dance, choreographing for the video camera and television screen.” Her work has been screened in one-woman and group shows at the Museum Of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum Of American Art, The Kitchen Center, The Hayward Gallery, London, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC,(highlighted in “Cine dance In America”), at such festivals as Berlin,  Edinburgh, Dance On Camera/ Lincoln Center, Video Danza/ Buenos Aires, and winning awards at the Houston, Athens, London, American Film Festivals and more.

Robert Haller is a major figure in the American avant-garde film scene. He founded the National Alliance Of Media Arts Centers and is now Director of Special Projects and Library Collections at Anthology Film Archives.  He has written books and catalogues on Fritz Lang, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Jim Davis and more. His photographs of avant-garde film-makers are now on view at the Albright Knox Gallery. He lectures on avant-garde cinema worldwide.

Missed some of the films in our 2012 Dance on Camera Festival this past January?

This spring is your chance to catch some of our festival films in New York.
Take your family, take your friends, and celebrate the new season with dance film in theaters.

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

• April 27, 2012
• Cinema Village
• Screening Information

First Position

• May 4, 2012
• IFC Center
• Film Society Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center
• Screening Information 

Never Stand Still

• May 18, 2012
• New York’s Quad Cinema
• Screening Information

Dance Films Association • 48 West 21st St., #907 • New York, NY 10010.
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Synopsis
A lost love and marriage is evoked in a poetic dance of longing and memory. A man is ushered into another world, by two guardian angels, in search of his lost bride. Their marriage and relationship is evoked through a series of kinetic snapshots and romantic dance sequences.

Other News
The Stronger
Cannes Short Film Corner
May 16 – 26, 2012

Biography
Gabrielle Lansner has had a successful international career as a choreographer, director, and actor. She is currently Artistic Director of gabrielle lansner & company, a critically acclaimed dance theater group based in New York City.She has recently shifted focus to filmmaking as a new way to create her work. Lansner is interested in capturing the depth of emotion that can inhabit a performer’s body and face and how a story can be told through that physicality.

Ticketing
March 5: Festival Pass and Ticket Packages on sale
April 10: Single tickets on sale for American Express Cardholders
April 15: Single tickets on sale for downtown residents
April 16: Single tickets on sale for general public

BAM150 by Michael Sládek

BALLROOM DANCER by Andreas Koefoed and Christian Bonke

FAME HIGH by Scott Hamilton Kennedy

PRIMA by Miguel Calayan

THE PERFECT FIT by Tali Yankelevich

RESPONSIBILITIES
Working with DFA to establish optimum video digitization workflow and organization.
Researching and creating metadata for the films and videos.
Learning about the collection.
Learning to digitize a variety of video formats.
Digitize DFA’s dance film archive and cataloguing digital film storage and backup.
Working with video logging software for creating clips and logging metadata.
Log and capture footage from filmed DFA events.
A little physical labor including moving and shelving films.

REQUIREMENTS
Recent college graduate or currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 GPA or higher.
Attention to detail and discrepancy.
Ability to multi-task.
Interest in dance film and desire to see many hours of film archive footage.
The ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Available mid-May through July, 2012.
Commitment to 10hrs/week.
Available on Mondays and Wednesdays.

DFA is happy to offer course credit if the applicant is a student at an accredited college/university or a travel stipend for this position.

To be considered, please submit a letter of intent expressing your qualifications and interest in dance film as well as a copy of your resume to brighid@dancefilms.org. ]]> http://www.dancefilms.org/2012/04/09/dance-films-association-seeks-digital-intern/feed/ 0