LET’S HEAR IT FROM THE ARTISTS
Screen.dance 2021 Artists Presentations. Part 2
Curated by Simon Fildes and Iliyana Nedkova
This is the second of four curated programmes of UK and international artists presentations selected from the open call to the Screen.dance 2021 festival.
Each presentation offers an opportunity to delve deeper into the artists’ practice through a livestream of a pre-recorded presentation and is followed by a live Q&A. Some of the artists prefer to include their dance films in the presentation, whilst others focus on wider issues. Often the films talked about also compete for the Screen.dance 2021 UK or International Jury Awards.
Can’t make it to these Screen.dance 2021 sessions? All artists’ presentations will be uploaded here, on this website, soon after their premiere alongside a growing resource of artists presentations from our earlier festival editions.
Simon Fildes and Iliyana Nedkova, Co-curators
LET’S HEAR IT FROM THE ARTISTS
Screen.dance 2021 Artists Presentations. Part 2
FRIDAY 12 March 2021
14:00-15:00 GMT LIVESTREAM
15:00-15:30 GMT LIVE Q&A
AT ALL TIMES ON DEMAND UNTIL 31 MARCH 2021
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PROGRAMME
ON DEMAND Let’s Hear it from Fu Le
The post-livestream Live Q&A with the featured artists will be hosted by Anna Clifford
Fu Le is a French award-winning filmmaker and choreographer in the Tetrapode Dance Company. As a graduate in Sculpture at the Art Crafts National School in Paris, he then trained in physical theatre and in contemporary dance in South America and Europe. He pursued recently his research in Taiwan, questioning social issues linked with urbanization. He is now evolving on the edge between dance, sculpture and video, and connects visual arts to the intimacy of bodily sensations.
As part of his Screen.dance 2021, Fu will focus on his film The Last Children which explores the issue of merging isolated primary schools in centralized educational institutes. In 2019, 400 French schools were affected by this reform. His response is a single-shot choreographic film starring the children of a school on the eve of its closure. Through a metaphorical fable, it bears witness to the achievement of the desertification in the rural world and the death of its villages.
ON DEMAND Let’s Hear it from John and Susan Mann
John Bright Mann is a documentary filmmaker. His work reflects a thematic concern for a concept of home, begun with his dissertation, A Phenomenological Inquiry into a Concept of Home. His first documentary, Shelter: Conversations with Homeless Men, was shot in North Carolina and Kansas. He then produced and directed Nicodemus – a one-hour documentary on the only surviving African-American town from post-Civil War America, Nicodemus, Kansas (selected for screening at the Athens International Film Festival). Professor Mann also works with dance for the camera projects. These include Breathe In…Breathe Out, selected for screening at the International Screen Dance Festival in 2014.
As part of their Screen.dance 2021 presentation John and Susan Mann will focus on their dance film shot on S16mm camera, called Thrown. They will also show this film which follows a woman whose familiar world suddenly vanishes. She no longer belongs and finds herself thrown into the new world of deceit and accusations.
Screen.dance 2021 Artists Presentations. Part 2
Curated by Simon Fildes and Iliyana Nedkova
Further support by Juliette Harvey