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Fused - Monday Screening

A collection of films that blur the lines between technology and the body. Through editing techniques and dancing with technology, these films explore the fusion of movement and cinematic language to uncover new possibilities and potentials for the body in motion.

This screening will be followed by a pre-recorded artist talk facilitated by Simran Sachar.

The screening contains strobe effects.

Featured
SINGAPORE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
SYNC
SINGAPORE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Layla Wei, ScRach MarcS
DURATION: 7:54

SYNC follows the perspectives of a couple, drawing parallels among the trust-building process between human individuals, between programmatic systems, and between men and machines or artificial systems. Their bodily movements evoke this state of tension as well as bonding throughout the process of noticing, connecting, trusting and syncing with each other. Amidst uncertainties in this age of hybrid lives, and this era of technological transformations where we become increasingly intertwined with artificial realities, this film poses the question of what it takes to be really in sync with another identity.

CREDITS
Director: Layla Wei, ScRach MarcS
Choreographers: Layla Wei, ScRach MarcS
Performers: Layla Wei, ScRach MarcS
Cinematographer: Jeremy Lau
Producer: Layla Wei, Victor Gan
Editor: Layla Wei
Online Editor: Togusa Chan
Camera Assistant: Tom Seah
Grip: Zhang JiaPei, Jay Chan
Production Assistant: Catherine Zhang
Music: Paul Ressel

SINGAPORE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
CANADA, Youth Category, World Premiere
Salty
CANADA, Youth Category, World Premiere

Sophie Janus, Kira Radosevic + Tara Rajah
DURATION: 4:16

SALTY is a collaborative dialogue between dancer, videographer, and cellist, exploring the sensations of overwhelm and escape. As the distinction between dancer and environment becomes increasingly ambiguous, space is created for the push and pull of emotions, evoked through recorded waves, camera movement, music, and dance. This film was inspired by a certain struggle: caring deeply about something but not having the capacity to express yourself clearly, and thus feeling lost. We believe these experiences are universal, and demonstrating them through recorded movement will allow others to feel understood, and as a result, maybe a little less lost.

CREDITS
Director, Videographer, Editor: Sophie Janus
Choreographer, Performer: Kira Radosevic
Location: 45W
Composer, Cellist: Tara Rajah
Supplementary Music: Green-House

CANADA, Youth Category, World Premiere
CTRL_R
GERMANY, Youth Category, Canadian Premiere
CTRL_R
GERMANY, Youth Category, Canadian Premiere

Maria Kobzeva
DURATION: 10:00

CTRL_R is an interdisciplinary dance film at the intersection of technology, dance, film, and site-specific performance that explores the relationship between humans and (surveillance) technologies. In doing so, CTRL_R imagines not only dystopian visions of the future but also possibilities of a creative, playful, more-than-human coexistence: Two performers dance with a drone in three sceneries, through different realities and landscapes in which technologies are already deeply inscribed; within an urban environment, through old industrial halls, and amongst a solar panel field. CTRL_R poses questions within dance about control, loss of control, interplay, and coexistence with new technologies.

CREDITS
Artistic Direction: Maria Kobzeva
Choreographers, Performers: Sandra Domnick, Maria Kobzeva
Videographer and Post Production: Georg Gilstein
Drone Pilot: Lukas Stemmler
Dramaturgy: Maria Huber
Costumes: Michaela Kraft
Composer: Nicolas Fehr
Saxophone: Ralph Heidl
Drums: Simon Popp

GERMANY, Youth Category, Canadian Premiere
WIRES
CANADA, Youth Category, Vancouver Premiere
WIRES
CANADA, Youth Category, Vancouver Premiere

Rumi Jeraj
DURATION: 10:40

This work is an exploration of space. Inspired by its location and the urge to change urban spaces into performance places, WIRES began as a physical exploration. By questioning what could be done outside of the studio but not within, a new dance space was made. From here the work became a radical act of collaboration. The performer's state of mind at this moment in time became a jumping off point: the physical substances included, the weather on shoot day and conversations about feeling and style all found their way into this film. Enjoy!

CREDITS
Director: Bobby Markov
Concept: Rumi Jeraj
Performers: Moira Humana-Blaise, Ethan Kim, Rumi Jeraj
Editors: Rumi Jeraj and Bobby Markov
Composer, Producer: Gareth Gilliland
Sound Engineer: Mark Maclure
Saxophone: Holly Sangster
Drums and Percussion: Zane Baker
Bass: Kessler Douglas
Guitar: Gareth Gilliland

SPECIAL THANKS
Austin Macpherson, Next Fest, Collective of Scenic Exchange, Joel Taylor, Esmail Jeraj

CANADA, Youth Category, Vancouver Premiere
FRANCE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
In Media Res
FRANCE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Anthony Valon
DURATION: 6:41

A human shadow wakes up in the middle of a giant empty factory, at the foot of a monolith that reflects his silhouette endlessly. He bears the marks of a time that has passed: the traces of a makeup that now deceives facial recognition.

CREDITS
Director, Composer, Producer : Anthony Valon Aka Bazabuque
Performer: Lorenzo DS Dasse aka Yodaproduction: Kid A
Director of Photography: Aurélien Le Calvez
Production Partner: Kenji Meunier
Production Assistant: Alban Duchateau
Steadicamer: Sacha Naceri
Assistant Camera: Jean-Charles Baravian
Focus Puller: Félix Sulejmanoski
Lighting Designer: Tristan Mouget
Assistant Lighting Designer: Lucas Bouchet=
Video Mixer: Clément Valon
Colorist: Caïque (Shade)
Typographer: Esther Szac
Recording: Marc Upson & Peter Combard (Studio Mu̧)
Mix & Sound Design: Maxence Dussere (Studio Zone D'ombre)
Drummer: Laurent Pena Vieira
Photographer: David Zagdoun
Makeup Artist: Caroline Lacoste

SPECIAL THANKS
Olivier Simola, Stella Rossinifabrice Lefebvre, Élie Tisné, Didier & Isabelle Valon, Félix Pirritano, Anne Le Mottais, Marina Obolensky

This film contains strobe effects

FRANCE, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Accessibility

This event will be live-streamed via Vimeo. Films that include spoken words will have subtitles in English. The prerecorded artist talk will have closed captions.

Learn more about accessibility at F-O-R-M 2021 here.

Earlier Event: September 13
Building Collaborative Processes for Movement-on-Screen
Later Event: September 14
In the Frame with Narrative Portraits with Virginia Duivenvoorden