Suddenly, we find ourselves in an industrial building. This energetic film starts out as if it’s a black-and-white film by George Meliès in which dancers pop up and disappear again. One of the shorts that really stood out in this selection, was Oh! Million Fist! by Hugh Cho. Originally, one of Cinedans’ was a special focus on dance films from Hong Kong, in cooperation with the Jumping Frames Festival. It appears that he is haunted by a ghost of the past. It appears that the man doesn’t want to act like a clown. It looks very funny, however, the atmosphere of the film changes halfway. Enveloped in a pile of towels, with some plastic garden chairs on his neck or pipes in his socks, he performs some weird dances. Mudanza Contemporanea (2018) by Teo Guillem was one of these shorts, a film about a man (played by Guillem himself) who dances with his own creations. Blurred close-ups of the individual dancers and observational shots of the whole group alternate.Ĭinedans WEB presented a Surprise Short every day. The tribal dance consists of both loose and powerful movements that match the stirring music. Fortunately, the dancers continuously rise up from death and continue dancing in an aggressive way. In the mysterious darkness, several murders take place. In the beautiful historic Rivoli Ballroom in South London, ten dancers bring different gloomy choreographies to the stage. The result takes your breath away.Īnother beautiful film of the online program of Cinedans is Clowns (2018) by Hofesh Shechter. The dancers are accompanied by opera music, a meditative voice-over or silence. Because of the position of the dancers and choreographies, it looks like they are integrated into the space of the Panthéon, as if they themselves are pieces of art. They fight against gravity, try to find their balance and walk along with the turning of the Earth, or in the opposite direction. In five different thematic choreographies, all set at another location in the Pathéon, dancers try out the very unique forces of the planet Earth. With The Great Ghosts, Directors Pierre-Hubert Martin en Louise Narboni succeeded in creating some poetic adjustments. However, adding something extra is quite a challenge.
When you make a film in Paris’ Panthéon, it is most unlikely that your film production will fail. Frameland reviews the highlights of the online festival and the films of the official program that can still be watched online.
The organisation decided to put a small selection of the original festival program online, which could be enjoyed at Cinedans WEB. However, because of the measures against the coronavirus, the festival had to be cancelled. From 25 till 29 March, the 17 th edition of Cinedans should have taken place in EYE Amsterdam.
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