Film is movement, liberating the frozen image through vital rhythms. For their part, dance films represent an exponential flowering of movement: the narration also grabs hold of the beholders’ bodies. One yearns to join in! The dancefloor of a ballet house becomes a white stage for a passionate homage, while a performance in a Berlin shop window serves as an instance of cultural critique. When wars allow a boy in Chad to give powerful expression to his story, great cinema is the result. Finally, the notorious crystal ball serves as a space for reflection of and on personal identity, an identity in motion.
PROGRAM
DEVIENS
Adrien Lhommedieu // France // 2021 // 10:00 min
Experimental, Live Action
A young boy is fascinated by ballet but afraid to admit it – until he crosses the path of a professional ballet dancer.
SHE
Emil Dam Seidel // Denmark, Sweden // 2022 // 07:35 min
Experimental
Caught in a room, the protagonist, Clarice, unfolds a vision of her own identity through a mirror interrogator.
GHOSTS
(LA)HORDE Ballet National de Marseille // France, United States // 2022 // 08:12 min
Experimental, Live Action
Electronic-music artist Rone, avant-garde dance collective (La)Horde and filmmaker Spike Jonze team up to bring the fine art museum at Marseille’s Palais Longchamp to new life at night, in the scope of a ghostly choreography.
AMANI
Alliah Fafin // Canada // 2021 // 17:00 min
Live Action
A mysterious narrator tells the tale of Amani, a boy fond of dancing, who must one day confront another reality rolling in from behind the mountains.
%
Tian Baumly // Germany // 2022 // 05:05 min
Experimental
The offer sounds wonderful: be whatever you want to be. “%” is an experimental meditation on consuming and consumerism in an exhibition room with large display windows.
FANTASMA NEON
NEON PHANTOM
Leonardo Martinelli // Brazil // 2021 // 20:00 min
Live Action
João is a delivery man who dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical.
AN EVENING WITH TAGLIONI
Jessica Wright / Morgann Runacre-Temple // // 2021 // 14:04 min
Live Action
When legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni, the first woman to dance on her tiptoes, went into retirement, her ballet slippers were bought by a fan, cooked at a lavish dinner party and served to guests.
Tickets: 9 EUR, or 7 EUR with Berliner Pass or Student I.D.
