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'''Video Dance''' is a festival presenting a showcase of the latest experiments on media and movement or, in other words, at the crossroads of visual arts, enhanced cinema and performing arts. | '''Video Dance''' is a festival presenting a showcase of the latest experiments on media and movement or, in other words, at the crossroads of visual arts, enhanced cinema and performing arts. | ||
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The screenings, the main festival axis, consist a showcase of films from all over the world presented in thematic programmes. Non-narrative experimental films are being screened along with dance-based films. | The screenings, the main festival axis, consist a showcase of films from all over the world presented in thematic programmes. Non-narrative experimental films are being screened along with dance-based films. | ||
| − | As far as it concerns dance films, programming is focused on the special relationship between movement and the | + | As far as it concerns dance films, programming is focused on the special relationship between movement and the moving image, both when it is produced as a result of a choreography for the camera, and when it is produced by the filmmaker's look on the movement. |
Special screenings present archival material on the history of movement and the moving image as it is preserved on film during the 20th century. Retrospectives like those on the works by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] (2003) or by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164891/ Shirley Clarke] (2004) give the Greek audience an opportunity to contact the first attempts of the experimental non-narrative cinema to use the movement as its main source. | Special screenings present archival material on the history of movement and the moving image as it is preserved on film during the 20th century. Retrospectives like those on the works by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] (2003) or by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164891/ Shirley Clarke] (2004) give the Greek audience an opportunity to contact the first attempts of the experimental non-narrative cinema to use the movement as its main source. | ||
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The festival takes place in [[Athens]], in mid-September and the film programme is screened in Thessaloniki right after that. | The festival takes place in [[Athens]], in mid-September and the film programme is screened in Thessaloniki right after that. | ||
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Video Dance is funded and organised since 2000 by the [http://www.filmfestival.gr Thessaloniki International Film Festival], one of the major film institutions in Greece, part of the [[Greek Ministry of Culture]]. | Video Dance is funded and organised since 2000 by the [http://www.filmfestival.gr Thessaloniki International Film Festival], one of the major film institutions in Greece, part of the [[Greek Ministry of Culture]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:45, May 5, 2008
Video Dance was established in 2000 as an international dance film festival, but soon it broadened to include more kinds of experiment on movement and the moving image.
About
Video Dance is a festival presenting a showcase of the latest experiments on media and movement or, in other words, at the crossroads of visual arts, enhanced cinema and performing arts.
The screenings, the main festival axis, consist a showcase of films from all over the world presented in thematic programmes. Non-narrative experimental films are being screened along with dance-based films.
As far as it concerns dance films, programming is focused on the special relationship between movement and the moving image, both when it is produced as a result of a choreography for the camera, and when it is produced by the filmmaker's look on the movement.
Special screenings present archival material on the history of movement and the moving image as it is preserved on film during the 20th century. Retrospectives like those on the works by Maya Deren (2003) or by Shirley Clarke (2004) give the Greek audience an opportunity to contact the first attempts of the experimental non-narrative cinema to use the movement as its main source.
The live media events zone includes video-performances, performances, live improvisation with sound and image, and other experimental art works involving media and performing arts.
During the festival video-installations related to the film programme themes are exhibited.
The festival takes place in Athens, in mid-September and the film programme is screened in Thessaloniki right after that.
The Structure and Collaborations
Video Dance is funded and organised since 2000 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, one of the major film institutions in Greece, part of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
It was founded by its actual artistic director, Christiana Galanopoulou.
The festival is non competitive and non-commercial.
Over the past five years, more than 350 recent and formerly produced films from all over the world have been screened in two venues, in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece.
The festival collaborates with several dance and film international festivals, archives and cultural institutions and it is a member of the Dance and Media Festivals International Network.
During the first three years it was held in industrial spaces especially re-designed for VideoDance by young architects. Since 2003 it started its collaboration with the independent group BIOS.
External Links
Thessaloniki Video Dance Festival, website