Portrait of Sarah Friedland by Matteo Bellomo
Still from Sarah Friedland’s 2019 film CROWDS
About the Talk
“Focusing on the processes of making my last three works - Drills, CROWDS, and Home Exercises - this artist talk will explore the methods of choreographic research and filmic performance at play in my hybrid filmmaking. Working in between dance, fiction, and non-fiction filmmaking, I stage and script bodies and cameras in concert with one another to elucidate and distill the undetected, embodied mechanics of social life and the body politic. Facilitating a research process integrating movements, gestures, and postures from cinema and archival footage, embodied memories, and contemporary dance languages, I choreograph through practices of interviewing, re- and pre-enactment, adaptation, and improvisational play, shaping dances with diverse communities of performers and movers - from professional dancers to cohorts of seniors and teenagers. This talk will consider and break down the way in which I bring these choreographic and filmic practices into contact with one another.”
About the Artist
Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in numerous film festivals and cinemas including New Directors/New Films, Ann Arbor Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, BAMcinématek, and Anthology Film Archives, in art spaces such as Performa 19 Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, Sharjah Art Foundation, MAM Rio, Wassaic Project, and Manifattura delle Arti, and in dance spaces including the American Dance Festival and Dixon Place. Her work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Film at Lincoln Center, Dance Films Association, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, NYSCA/Wave Farm, and Berlinale Talents, among others. Sarah graduated from Brown University's department of Modern Culture and Media and started her career assisting filmmakers including Steve McQueen, Mike S. Ryan, and Kelly Reichardt. Sarah has worked on collaborative research and writing projects with media theorists Wendy Chun on slut-shaming and new media leaks, published in differences|journal of feminist cultural studies, with Erin Brannigan on the dancing body on film, and published an essay in the International Journal of Screendance on gesture and film genre. Sarah is currently an AIM Emerging Artist Fellow at The Bronx Museum. www.motionandpictures.com
To learn more about Sarah’s work and the full film Home Exercises, visit here!
Sarah’s film Home Exercises was an audience favourite at F-O-R-M 2018! Watch the teaser on Vimeo.
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