January 2016
* Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Underline / 06min 57sec / 2011
Director: Frederic Lombard (Switzerland) & Surjit Nongmeikapam (India)
Camera: Frederic Lombard
Edit: Frederic Lombard
Dancers: Surjit Nongmeikapam (BONBON)
Recorded at: New Delhi, Nizzamudin Trail Station
One line of tension revealing an unallocated and fragmented landscape, which will slowly charge a body with all of the energy it contains.UNDERLINE Dance Film was created on the “Yellow Line Project” hosted by GATI DANCE FORUM, New Delhi
Clais / 5 min 23 sec / 2014
Director: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín (Ireland)
Camera: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín
Edit: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín
Dancers: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín
Recorded at: West Kerry, Ireland
Immersed in the land this intimate interaction integrates film, sound and movement created and developed in the West Kerry landscape.
It could be lost / 5 min 30 sec / 2013
Director: un dó (Iraya Noble, Monika Smekot)
Camera: Elga Dudareva
Edit: Monika Smekot
Dance: Iraya Noble, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Edinburgh, Scotland
Strength and beauty are always available to us, they are always present – just like the rhythm that is always present in the universe. But at the same time it can be lost… if we give our attention to ego and judgment. Our uniqueness can be blocked if we restrict it by cold evaluation, unemotional criticism, and strict judgment. ‘it could be lost’ is a piece about necessity of the fight with our ego and judgment.
The Dwindling Dispute / 5 min 30 sec / 2014-2015
Director: Melanie Kloetzel (Canada)
Camera: Jennifer Mahood, Lead Camera and Chantal Wall, Asst.
Edit: Melanie Kloetzel
Dancers: Naomi Brand and Melanie Kloetzel
Recorded at: Calgary, Canada
In The Dwindling Dispute, a dance film by kloetzel&co., Lewis Carroll’s farcical Red and White Queens bewilder little Alice with relentless pseudo-scuffles, precise musicality, and nonsensical wordplay. But who is really in control in this whimsical Wonderland, Alice or the farcical Queens?
Basics / 5 min 30 sec / 2014
Director: Monika Smekot
Camera: Monika Smekot
Edit: Mokika Smekot
Dancers: Iraya Noble, Piotr Antek Kurjata, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Edinburgh, Scotland
‘Basics’ is a video art for 3 screens. It slowly zooms in at a story of 3 people (perhaps connected). The blurry shapes become sharper and the chaotic passing through the screen lead to unison. Scattered thoughts and fragments of conversation meet in one final sentence…
‘Basics’ is a side effect of ‘delaySCAPE’ project (supported by Creative Scotland) created from the 3 video projections that were used in the first part of the piece.
SHORT BREAKE (10 min)
Coire Ruadh / 10 minutes / 2014
Director: Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson (UK)
Camera: Katrina McPherson
Edit: Simon Fildes
Dancers: Robbie Synge, Frank McConnell, Ruth Janssen
Recorded at: Inshriach National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms, Scotland
The transition between not wild and wild is for most people all about a feeling and it’s this very personal response that matters, not lines on maps. The stepping over an invisible threshold where the shoulders relax and you smell the pine in the air, catch a glimpse of a red squirrel, watch wood ants wrestling on sun warmed rock, step over the raptor-torn remains of a Ptarmigan and lie down in the heather and stare at the clouds for a while thinking about nothing in particular.
☻ Conversation with Simon Fildes
Correspondance / 28 min / 2015 (UK Premierre)
Director: Shaked Dagan (Israel)
Camera: Shaked Dagan, Omer Tadmor, Monika Smekot
Edit: Shaked Dagan
Dancers: Shaked Dagan, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Bergen (Norway), Glasgow (Scotland)
Correspondance is a dance film cruising between the documentary, mockumentary, abstract and staged aesthetic. Communication these days is easy and available always, with a snap of a finger, and new kind of relationships emerge. Relationships that are supported by screens.
Correspondance is a duet of far away people. Sending carefully shaped messages that get blurry and cut off on their way - on an attempt to establish a sort of intimacy where there is mostly concentrated loneliness.
☻ Conversation with Shaked Dagan & Monika Smekot
* Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Underline / 06min 57sec / 2011
Director: Frederic Lombard (Switzerland) & Surjit Nongmeikapam (India)
Camera: Frederic Lombard
Edit: Frederic Lombard
Dancers: Surjit Nongmeikapam (BONBON)
Recorded at: New Delhi, Nizzamudin Trail Station
One line of tension revealing an unallocated and fragmented landscape, which will slowly charge a body with all of the energy it contains.UNDERLINE Dance Film was created on the “Yellow Line Project” hosted by GATI DANCE FORUM, New Delhi
Clais / 5 min 23 sec / 2014
Director: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín (Ireland)
Camera: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín
Edit: Cáit Ní Dhuinnín, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín
Dancers: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín
Recorded at: West Kerry, Ireland
Immersed in the land this intimate interaction integrates film, sound and movement created and developed in the West Kerry landscape.
It could be lost / 5 min 30 sec / 2013
Director: un dó (Iraya Noble, Monika Smekot)
Camera: Elga Dudareva
Edit: Monika Smekot
Dance: Iraya Noble, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Edinburgh, Scotland
Strength and beauty are always available to us, they are always present – just like the rhythm that is always present in the universe. But at the same time it can be lost… if we give our attention to ego and judgment. Our uniqueness can be blocked if we restrict it by cold evaluation, unemotional criticism, and strict judgment. ‘it could be lost’ is a piece about necessity of the fight with our ego and judgment.
The Dwindling Dispute / 5 min 30 sec / 2014-2015
Director: Melanie Kloetzel (Canada)
Camera: Jennifer Mahood, Lead Camera and Chantal Wall, Asst.
Edit: Melanie Kloetzel
Dancers: Naomi Brand and Melanie Kloetzel
Recorded at: Calgary, Canada
In The Dwindling Dispute, a dance film by kloetzel&co., Lewis Carroll’s farcical Red and White Queens bewilder little Alice with relentless pseudo-scuffles, precise musicality, and nonsensical wordplay. But who is really in control in this whimsical Wonderland, Alice or the farcical Queens?
Basics / 5 min 30 sec / 2014
Director: Monika Smekot
Camera: Monika Smekot
Edit: Mokika Smekot
Dancers: Iraya Noble, Piotr Antek Kurjata, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Edinburgh, Scotland
‘Basics’ is a video art for 3 screens. It slowly zooms in at a story of 3 people (perhaps connected). The blurry shapes become sharper and the chaotic passing through the screen lead to unison. Scattered thoughts and fragments of conversation meet in one final sentence…
‘Basics’ is a side effect of ‘delaySCAPE’ project (supported by Creative Scotland) created from the 3 video projections that were used in the first part of the piece.
SHORT BREAKE (10 min)
Coire Ruadh / 10 minutes / 2014
Director: Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson (UK)
Camera: Katrina McPherson
Edit: Simon Fildes
Dancers: Robbie Synge, Frank McConnell, Ruth Janssen
Recorded at: Inshriach National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms, Scotland
The transition between not wild and wild is for most people all about a feeling and it’s this very personal response that matters, not lines on maps. The stepping over an invisible threshold where the shoulders relax and you smell the pine in the air, catch a glimpse of a red squirrel, watch wood ants wrestling on sun warmed rock, step over the raptor-torn remains of a Ptarmigan and lie down in the heather and stare at the clouds for a while thinking about nothing in particular.
☻ Conversation with Simon Fildes
Correspondance / 28 min / 2015 (UK Premierre)
Director: Shaked Dagan (Israel)
Camera: Shaked Dagan, Omer Tadmor, Monika Smekot
Edit: Shaked Dagan
Dancers: Shaked Dagan, Monika Smekot
Recorded at: Bergen (Norway), Glasgow (Scotland)
Correspondance is a dance film cruising between the documentary, mockumentary, abstract and staged aesthetic. Communication these days is easy and available always, with a snap of a finger, and new kind of relationships emerge. Relationships that are supported by screens.
Correspondance is a duet of far away people. Sending carefully shaped messages that get blurry and cut off on their way - on an attempt to establish a sort of intimacy where there is mostly concentrated loneliness.
☻ Conversation with Shaked Dagan & Monika Smekot
