Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen
Summer Shorts 2020 – throughout the month of August.
Screen.Dance : Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen is so excited to announce we have partnered with Marquee.tv to help add some of the best of the festival to their Summer Shorts programme!
Marquee TV presents a curated selection of short films from around the world, focused on dance and music. Co-curated in collaboration with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and with the participation of the Screen.dance Festival in Scotland
Canning Town
We can now announce the curators’ choice award for films submitted to the UK Awards category.
Canning Town is a dance film shot beneath its street lights, capturing desolate cityscapes that will soon no longer be there. House prices continue to rise and the redevelopers of East London are steadily encroaching from all sides. Fabiola Santana and her Mother Leah moved to Canning Town from Portugal in 2008. In 2018 they moved out. This film honours those 10 years by making a dance with the forces of union and separation – between two lovers, a mum and daughter, a country and its continent.
The film was selected by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova and Gitta Wigro from the films submitted to the UK screendance awards category.
The panel felt the film was an atmospheric psycho-geographic examination of a particular time and place in British history and pushed the screendance form in to new territory. Congratulations to the creative team Will Dickie, Fabiola Santana and Will Hanke.
Responding to the award the directors sent this statement. “Thank you to everyone at screen dance for hosting Canning Town, and for this super award! We were really thrilled to see our work amongst many high-quality films from around the world. We are so disappointed to have not been there with you to meet in person. At the same time, many of our friends and family from far and wide were able to experience the festival with us, which was great. We would like to give a special mention to Will Hanke for his camera work, and Fabiola’s mother Leah for her contribution and her love. We hope that we can offer this making process to other towns, cities, street corners and dancers in future. And continue to listen to public space with our bodies. Do get in touch with us if you have any comments or questions, we’d love to hear from you. WilL & Fabs x”
The panel felt a special mention in this awards category should also be made for the film ‘Swivel’ by Lois Norman
Intertidal Barene
We can now announce the curators’ choice award for films submitted to the International Awards category.
The city of Venice with its lagoon is an example of a historic city that is at great risk of being swallowed by water. “Intertidal. Barene” is aimed at raising awareness of the issue that this ecosystem brings with it. A precise dialogue with the environment, consisting of natural elements and put in relation to the elements created by humans. The dancing language comes from a specific relationship with the location and perception through the lens of the camera.
The film was selected by Simon Fildes, Iliyana Nedkova and Gitta Wigro from the films submitted to the International screendance awards category.
The panel felt the film was an unhurried eco poetic portrayal of a fragile environment, guided by camera and choreography to raise awareness of urgent issues without the film seeming polemical. Congratulations to the whole production team for gaining 2 awards at the festival.
DRAMATURGY, PRODUCTION: Confluenze
ARTISTIC DIRECTION, PERFORMER: Anja Dimitrijević
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, EDITOR: Laura Santini
MUSIC COMPOSER, FOLEY ARTIST: Michele Deiana
CHOREOGRAPHER: Paloma Leyton
PROJECT ASSISTANT, CHOREOGRAPHER: Lucrezia Stenico
COSTUME DESIGN: Anja Dimitrijević, Paloma Leyton, Laura Santini
AUDIO PRODUCTION: Emanuele Frison (V.E.R-V.)
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Alessandra Marin
They sent us a statement in response to the award. “Very delighted to receive this important recognition! We would like to thank all the people who helped us in the process of spreading awareness on this ecological topic through movement and film. The lagoon of Venice is a very dynamic ecosystem that has to deal with a continuous challenge to survive. We intend the concept of a city as not only the island of Venice, but as the whole lagoon. The lagoon area is also home to a vast biodiversity, including many bird species at risk of extinction. The Venetian Lagoon is the most enduring of the world due to the historical management of humans, and now it is facing a very delicate moment over a climate change epoch. In “Intertidal. Barene” the dancing body explores the liminal zones by shifting the focus on its delicate islands of salt marshes that might be still conserved. It searches for a de-anthropocentric dialogue where the body is embedded into a horizontal connection to the environment. The music becomes a multi-layered language that explores and evokes this reality and perceived condition. “
The panel would like to give a special mention to the films “Jah Intervention” , “4” and “Navigation” for their outstanding skills and impact in the programme.
Audience Choice Awards:
The clear favourite voted for in the UK Audience choice award was “Bunny” Directed by James Copeman and Choreographed by Sophia Melvin. They responded to the announcement – “We made our funny little film to entertain… so we’re thrilled to hear that BUNNY did just that!”
You can see the trailer here:
The International Audience choice award was a much tighter contest but “Intertidal, Barene” was a front runner from the opening. Directed, produced and choreographed by this Italian arts collective Confluenze.
View the trailer here.
It’s here! We have officially launched the 2020 screen.dance programme. Go to Festival 2020 menu to see what is happening over 2 days on 19 and 20 June.
Meanwhile have a look at the promo.
Happy to announce we are still running this event in collaboration with Summerhall in Edinburgh despite not being able to use their screening facilities.
Due to the ongoing restrictions this year the festival will be streamed entirely in our special screening room on 19 and 20th June but we hope audiences worldwide will donate to the Summerhall funding appeal and support this fantastic independent arts facility while enjoying hours of high quality dance on screen and exciting artist presentations.
Follow #summerhalladapts on Twitter and do make a donation if you can.
Sad to announce that Summerhall in Edinburgh will not reopen in June so we will not be able to hold our film festival screenings and presentations there.
However we will be running the festival online so please stay in touch for further announcements and press releases!
So we are four weeks away from our online screen.dance festival! We are ready to announce our international artist presenters!
Each 20 minute presentation will give us an insight into the art and practice of screendance making with behind the scene perspectives on the creative processes and concepts motivating the artists.
Check our Instagram and Facebook for more details.
Design your Dance on Screen. A new self led course with Simon Fildes on how dance makers and film makers can collaborate successfully. https://screendance.teachable.com/p/designscreendance
Enrolment has started! The first 10 students benefit from the 30% discounted introductory rate and get email support. Initial places have been claimed already so don’t miss out.
Design your Dance on Screen – a creative facilitation course to help film makers and dance makers collaborate successfully.
In response to the recent COVID-19 crisis and a reassessment of necessities for international travel Screen.Dance is planning new digital screening and live streaming platforms for the festival. Keep tuned for announcements!
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
