Competition Shorts II

“The Dance Film Festival Prague” presents screening of the “Competition Shorts II”.

Second collection of dance for camera shorts compiled by a selection from 1519 entries from around the world. 31 films in total will be competing for the Best Dance Film Award as well as for the Audience award.

In Be-tween – A Video-essay / Petra Tejnorová / Czech Republic 2020 – The video essay entitled IN BE-TWEEN presents creative work, as well as the process of rehearsing a dance project of the same name. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, live culture has been partially relocated online. Czech dancer Tereza Ondrová and her Italian colleague Francesca Foscarini have also moved there. From March 2020 until now, they have been preparing their new dance piece IN BE-TWEEN. No time together in the rehearsal room, mostly online, each in their own apartment, their own city, or in their own rehearsal room. The video essay is a report not only about one project, but also about live art – dance art in the digital age, in the social distancing age, in an age of great uncertainty. Who is Tereza and who is Francesca, but also what led them to collaborate is, of course, another topic of this short essay. IN BE-TWEEN, the title plays not only with ambiguity between the preposition “between”, but also with the noun “tween” and its pronunciation, which resembles the word “twin”. In the dance production, which (as we all hope) will be created in the future, two mature women, dancers, performers, Tereza Ondrová and Francesca Foscarini, who, in the opinion of others, are very physically similar, will stand side by side on the stage. Between them you will discover Anita, a teenager, not yet a woman, but a girl, reminding us of a world full of possibilities…

To the Dust / Cara Urban / USA 2019 – From dust to dust. A film that took place in a special cave in Israel.

Clench / Emelie Boman / Sweden 2020 – Meeting a horror movie with a dance film, or When Lova doesn’t return from a bike ride and her mother goes looking for her.

Human Habitat / Flavia Devonas Hoffmann / Norway 2020 – Human Habitat has its origin in the clash between untouched nature and growing industry in the Arctic and explores the oscillation between human resistibility and fragility. A female dancer takes us on an associative, non-narrative journey through emotional states facing the changes from a sustainable to a destructive. Relationship of humans and landscape.

Monska – C. R. Robin / Isabella Andronos / Australia 2020 – The film explores themes of strength and power in a generation of young girls, their relationship to gender stereotypes. In making the film, 81% of the film crew identified as female or non-binary.

The Invisible Inheritance / Martina Faux Marambio / Argentina 2020 – The film is inspired by a story by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. Gaston and Laura are siblings who live together in the solitude of a great house full of wealth and hard memories. Whispers can be heard as drawers and lockers are opened. The siblings choose to isolate themselves in secure rooms and not open the doors of the rooms from which the sounds originate. Everyday life seems to flow until the secret spreads to take up the space. Tensions are running high inside the house, while outside the popular masses demand justice for the benefit of the downtrodden and against the country’s bourgeoisie.

The Kitchen / Vishwakiran Nambi / Indie 2021 – A short dance film that explores the traditional female role in a patriarchal society. The story, which is inspired by the life and memories of the director’s mother, takes place in traditional 80s-style cuisine.

Delimitation / Tereza Vejvodová / Czech Republic 2020 – Our personality responds to external circumstances with delineation. Physical dialogue with emptiness opens up the subject of the personal identity of a space of anonymous urban landscape. Fingertips are a tool of touch, but also of identification. Physical dialogue with the void, exploration leading to the discovery of space and self 
projecting life into the seemingly lifeless and meaningless. The film looks at the possibilities of finding a personal identity in an anonymous urban landscape.