The Place Online: Trailer Frame Rush (dance films by international filmmakers) 2020

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Watch the short film screening here on Thursday 14 May from 7pm, don’t miss it!
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This specially curated programme of dance films by international filmmakers, celebrates the diversity and possibilities when two art forms; film and dance, combine.

Screening Programme
Can’t Press Repeat – Alice Underwood & Dillon Dance (2019, United Kingdom)
It started with an idea: 17 dancers, 1 take.
When you harness the passion, energy and voices of young people… You create magic. This short film was created to highlight the importance of the arts in education.
aliceunderwoodfilms.com

Concrete Kisses – Eloïse Mavronicholas (2019, United Kingdom)
Hong Kongese dancer Pui Yung Shum moves through the concrete landscape of London exploring intimacies and comfort in a place that’s far from home.
eloisemavronicholas.myportfolio.com

Stopgap in Stop Motion – Stephen Featherstone (2017, United Kingdom)
Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meet and perform in unison. Completed in 2016, this is a promotional film for Stopgap Dance Company. All Random Acts can be seen on the All4 VOD service. This is A Little Dot Production for Channel 4 Television Ltd.
vimeo.com/featherstonefilms

Yacht Club Swing – Silvia Cherneva (2019, United Kingdom)
Yacht Club Swing is a pedestrian study of an all-too-poeticised question: the regeneration of cities and what happens to those who were there before.
https://vimeo.com/silviacherneva

Embrace – Kati Kallio (2018, Finland)
When Ellin and Raili encounters a connection is born through dance. Embrace is a poetic dance film about importance of sharing and being present.
katikallio.com

T.I.A. (THIS is Africa) – Matthieu Maunier-Rossi (2015, France)
Aïpeur Foundou is a congolese dancer and choreographer. Amidst some popular areas of Brazzaville, he shows us one possible way to freedom.
matthieumaunierrossi.strikingly.com

Frame Rush Festival was curated and run by London Contemporary Dance School postgraduate students of the world’s only MA in Screendance programme.

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