Set 5: New Polish Dance Films Panorama
New Horizons of Dance
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Films description
Movement and the specific role of dance in short films by young Polish artists (2002-2007). A film requires synergy between film art and dance art. The Panorama shows different attitudes to dance in films, made during the last five years. It includes animations, short feature films and documentaries, cinematographic etudes and video impressions, showing dance and movement.
Femme Fatale
Poland 2005, 4' 55"
director: Daria Kopiec
screenplay: Daria Kopiec
music: Tymon Tymański
sales: PWSFTviT
A film impression about relations between a man, a woman and a mysterious woman-dragonfly, accompanied by jazz music.
Eight
Poland 2006, 9' 24"
director: Daria Kopiec
screenplay: Daria Kopiec
sales: PWSFTviT
You cannot say, what the cause of the sad ending of the film Eight is - is it the overworked father, the children magically changed into dummies and the rhyme they sing, or is it the boy who can't take care of himself? A contemporary record of a fleeting relationship between a father and his child - full of magical moments.
Two Colours
Poland 2005, 4'30"
director: Barbara Szewczyk
screenplay: Barbara Szewczyk
sales: PWSFTviT
In a fairy-tale world shrouded in white, delicate ethereal dancers dance. Exhausted by long dancing, they search for something to reinvigorate them. Suddenly, blood-red apples turn up in their white world.
Babe
Poland 2006, 3'
director: Magdalena Parszewska
screenplay: Magdalena Parszewska
music: Jakub Gąsowski
sales: PWSFTviT
The film shows, that everybody has their moment of glory, even in a kitchen.
Don't Sleep
Poland 2005, 11' 30"
director: Bogusław Bielański
screenplay: Bogusław Bielański
music: Tobiasz Staniszewski
sales: PWSFTviT
Tomek wants only to be loved. There are two important women in his life - the Mother and Julia, who will give birth to his son soon. So much love. The Mother has forgotten how to love unselfishly, and Julia will give birth to another man's son.
52 Percent
Poland 2007, 20'
director: Rafał Skalski
screenplay: Rafał Skalski
sales: PWSFTviT
52% is the perfect leg length to height ratio. This is one of the most important criteria for admitting children to the Russian Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg. Ałła has two months to amend her proportions. Will she make it? The film was created at the second of the documentary film workshops Russia-Poland. New Look - a joint project of The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the company Eureka Media.
The Princess
Poland 2006, 3'30''
director: Karolina Pająk
screenplay: Karolina Pająk
sales: PWSFTviT
An unusual day for a Princess.
Tourist
Poland 2004, 4'
director: Łukasz Żal
screenplay: Łukasz Żal
music: Kamil Łazikowski
sales: PWSFTviT
Mysterious young man arrives to a middle of nowhere village. No one knows where he comes from, no one knows what he comes for.
Black&White
Poland 2002, 5'
director: Michał Tywoniuk
screenplay: Michał Tywoniuk
choreography: Jacek Owczarek
sales: PWSFTviT
Black&White is an impression after reading Nizynski's diary. Dance as a movement; camera as a dancer and as a part of the choreography; image as an evaluation of a meaning hidden in the ambiance of the dancer's word.
Lilith
Poland 2004, 5'
director: Anna Winkler
screenplay: Anna Winkler
cinematography: Anna Winkler
music: Eric Capone
sales: PWSFTviT
The movie takes place in a desert and treats of Biblical Adam's first woman. Beautiful and demonic Lilith suffering from despair transforms into a monster.
Instinct
Poland 2002, 4'
director: Sebastian Maliszewski
choreography: Anna Piotrowska
cast: Anna Piotrowska
sales: Pies Piordel Production
Instinct is a film impression, resulting from and improvisation in the rooms of Szustra Palace in Warsaw.
Elevators
Poland 2006 4'
director: Kamila Chomicz
cinematography: Kamila Chomicz
music: Piotr Głuch
sales: Wytwórnia Filmów Kalina
In a large space of a factory young dancing people appear and disappear constantly. They resuscitate its long and empty corridors.
Windows DoorsWalls
Poland 2006, 4'
director: Kamila Chomicz
cinematography: Kamila Chomicz
music: Rafał Detoks
sales: Wytwórnia Filmów Kalina
Wanda Gala, a dancer and performer, enters into a dialog with an old yard placed within a tenement house.
Features
Poland 2004, 7'
director: Alicja Pahl
screenplay: Alicja Pahl
music: Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz
sales: PWSFTviT
Aesthetically refined, a sensual study of the movement of a dancing man. The dancer remembers his life. Scenes from his childhood, exercises in the ballet room, intertwine with images from a shoemaker's workshop, where an old master craftsman is making ballet-slippers.
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