2009 Wisconsin Film Fest - Dancescapes: a Landscape of Movement

Dancescapes: a Landscape of Movement

experimental
Program Running Time is 100 min
Award-winning dance films from around the world, use gesture, movement and rhythm to create narrative. This program of films was selected for the Festival by UW-Milwaukee MFA student Jessica Vokoun.

Mysteries of Nature
Directed By: Dahci Ma (IMDB)
South Korea, 2008, 10 min
Torn into bits and gone with the wind.

Horizon of Exile
Directed By: Isabel Rocamora
United Kingdom , Spain, 2007, 22 min
A journey of two women across timeless desert landscapes is punctuated by voice testimonies of Iraqi exiles.

Aprop
Directed By: Aitor Echeverria
Spain, 2007, 6 min
Sleep interrupted by the brush of a familiar touch. The sigh of that voice inviting you to play. The most everyday gestures become, at close range, an extraordinary dance.

Terrain
Directed By: Douglas Rosenberg,
Allen Kaeja
USA, 2006, 20 min
Each vignette is created in and of the landscape and speaks to metaphors of the senses, relationships, and the changing of the seasons.

La Vie Est Belle
Directed By: Tristan Duhamel
France, 2004, 3 min
A character of street-art painted by Jérôme Mesnager is dancing and running on the walls of Paris.

Nora
Directed By: Alla Kovgan (IMDB),
David Hinton (IMDB)
USA , United Kingdom , Mozambique, 2008, 35 min
Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, Nora includes a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from young schoolchildren to ancient grandmothers, and much of the music is specially composed by a legend of Zimbabwean music, Thomas Mapfumo.

SCREENING SCHEDULE

Sat, Apr 4th 11:00am
Play Circle Theater

$7.00

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