Kroki 2018 / Dances with Camera
Short Waves Festival
- The MOS Cinema
- Premiere: 23.05.2018
Dances with Camera is an international short film competition that showcases films that share a common language of movement and dance. The screenings include films from all over the world, exposing the audience to immense possibilities of physical expression and film portrayal.
The program includes fiction, documentaries, animations, experimental projects and choreographic impressions. There are reflective works, but also films meant to amuse. Just like every year, the program will be filled with dance, corporal narratives and unexpected searches in movement.
Dances with Camera has been a part of Short Waves Festival for 5 years, the screenings consistently meet with enthusiasm of both dance and film aficionados. Hence, for the 10th edition of the Festival, in addition to the competition screenings of Dances with Camera, we also prepared a special screening of Polish dance films, Polish Moves.
Date → 13 maja (niedziela)
Place → Lesser Poland Art Garden (MOS), cinema hall, Rajska 12
Time → 16.00
TICKETS → 12 PLN
PROGRAMME:
Six Solos
UK 2016, 7’. Director: Simon Fildes
Individual performances or communal expression? We can become more than the just the sum of our parts if we come together. Six solo dancers walk on to a bare white stage, they start performing carefully choreographed individual dances.
Skuggdjur (Shadow Animals)
Sweden 2017, 22’. Director: Jerry Carlsson
Marall follows her parents to a party and they want her to behave. Everyone at the party is trying to fit in, but not everyone succeeds. She seems to be the only one seeing the shadow circulating inside the house.
Kalt (Cold)
Germany 2017, 6’. Director: Sven Niemeyer
Is about the suffer of a mother who is not able to feel love for her child, no matter how she tries. She falls into a depression, which makes it hard to go on with her life.
Жар Птица (Firebird)
Bulgaria 2016, 7’. Director: Velislava Gospodinova
An artistic impression, driven by the rhythm of the music and the freedom of the dance, creates a magical world, where Love is the leading metaphysical force that overpowers
life and death.
Kâbus
France 2017, 8’. Director: Alice Fargier
Turkey is experiencing a disturbing political turn. How to sleep while one hears the ghosts of war? Where did these explosions come from? From the city or his own head?
Cold Storage
Finland 2016,. 9’. Director: Thomas Freundlich
Film that pays homage to the physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out for a wild all-night party.
Eurêka!
Canada 2016, 15’. Director: David B. Ricard
A society of people with Down syndrome is living in the ruins of a former fairgrounds. They find a mechanical doll, played by the only nondisabled artist of the troupe and making her into a circus number.
Bhairava
Canada 2017, 14’. Directors: Marlene Millar, Philip Szporer
Bhairava evokes facets of Shiva as both the destructor of evil and the guardian of time. Choreographer Shivalingappa is creating a incarnation of the deity, set within Hampi, India.
True Love Waits
Israel 2017, 3’. Director: Adi Halfin
A poignant tale of loss and loneliness. This dance film features world-renowned Batsheva dancer-choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith in a hypnotic performance to Radiohead's "True Love Waits".
