Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, the only film event in Romania dedicated to the dace films (September 4-8, Bucharest), brings together 43 short films in competition, out of which 8 are Romanian productions.
In the national competition –
Practices of the Self, which grew considerably from the first edition, this year Romanian directors and choreographers meet in the complicated
web of the self. Eight experimental short films will remind the viewers how to connect to their self and to the environment they live in -
When No One's Watching (RO, 2019, Teodora Zamfirescu),
Pendulum (Selves in Perpetual Motion) (RO, 2019,
Ioana Mischie),
Singing Bodies (RO, 2018, Alexandra Bălășoiu),
|DIS|CONNECTED (RO, 2019, Cătălin Rugina),
RIVERƧE (RO, 2019, Daniel Dragoescu),
Boot Camp (RO,
2019, Camelia Neagoe),
Soup (RO, 2019, Corina Andrian) and
Home Alone (RO, 2019, Jean-Lorin Sterian). The film can be seen on Friday, September 6, at the National Dance Centre in Bucharest (from 21:00).
When No One’s Watching juxtaposes architecture and human behavior and redefines the social, architectural and creative conventions. A young man, too young for his business suit and too old to be a fool, walks through an imposing corporate architecture while allowing himself to act out playful and inappropriate behavioural fantasies.
When No One’s Watching juxtaposes architecture and human behaviour and redefines social, architectural and creative protocols.
Pendulum is a haiku film portraying selves in perpetual motion, in a monochrome universe.
In
Singing Bodies we detach from our social perception of public space, we sharpen our senses and we use our bodies as expression of audible and inaudible musicality of the city. We propose a new reference of own impact over the environment, an awareness of the visual and sonorous traces that we leave in space.
|DIS|CONNECTED is about losing ourselves in the daily tumult, we wake up one day with deep discontent and confusion, with a feeling that we are clueless of who we truly are as individuals. At that point you try to re-establish the connection with your body to your own soul and your own mind and such...you become fully aware that reconnection is not seemingly as easy.
RIVERƧE is a little story told in dance and movement about changing the way we as humans perceive and interact with our existential space, our environment.
Boot Camp is a visual metaphor for the process of becoming, increasingly stepping out of childhood. It's an expression of
reality creeping down on the imaginary, creating a claustrophobic, rigid atmosphere. It's about standing on the threshold between a place of illusory candor and one of darkening lonesomeness. Oscillating between the comforting presence of her past self and the seemingly blank existence outside of her safe space, a girl comes into her adulthood.
Soup: - I have an idea, a dope proposition, you’ll like it cause I know what you like.
- Yea, I’m basically down with all soups, broths and souls so I’m sure it’s fine. I'll go wash my hair, so, anything that juggles with soup.
- You’ll love it.
We see habitation as something natural, but the ability to inhabit a place is conditioned by the environment in which we have developed our personality, by our interactions with the family and society. Any new space recovers our first habitation.
Home Alone, aims to discover the habitation "skills" of each individual.
Sarmalele Reci - MTV is my friend will be screened out of competition. Cristi, a young man, with a lonely and pointless existence, who’s only joy is listening to music on MTV, lives an extraordinary experience. From travelling with the Yellow Submarine to singing on the same stage with his favorite band, Sarmalele Reci, Cristi’s joyful dream changes him forever.
Details:
http://www.bidff.ro/competitia-nationala-19
