SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER
Insights
Lighthouse Digital LoungeSaturday 6 December
11.30am - 12.30pm
£5 / 4 concs.
5 (Cinco) European Premiere
A physical investigation into gender that discards the idea of a single truth, and thinks rather in terms of versions. A journey of search through video-dance, documentary, maybe fiction.
Krishna's Dancer
Krishna's Dancer pays homage to the north-Indian dance Kathak, whilst documenting a young female dance artist, Kasturi Mishra, living in India.
La Boule d'Or UK Premiere
A tranquil little island hidden away under a bridge in Lausanne, the bowling club of La Boule d'Or is home to a team of pensioners who, under the direction of a choreographer, join in a very strange game.
Dance Like Your Old Man
Six women imitate their dads' dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters. These unseen men come to life through the dances and reflections of their children.
Experimental Perspectives
Lighthouse Digital LoungeSaturday 6 December
2.00pm - 3.30pm
£5 / £4 concs.
Flicker
'Eyes open and keep looking into the blinding source of light that reduces figures and objects in this film to narrow silhouettes. All there is is light...'
Multiple Body; a continent of skin
An exploration of notions of working from somatics to make moving image work. Juxtapositions between cultural shifts and images of women's bodies in pornography and the popular media with real women's experiences of desire, love and loss are key.
Electric Desert
The spectre of a spectacle - a tribute to Loie Fuller, shot in Las Vegas, USA and Beeston, Yorkshire.
Love Soup
Dealing with loneliness inside relationships through texts written and performed by the poet 'Mrs Karen Elkalay-Got'. The performance combines live videos, live music and singing, live dance. The video dance 'Love Soup' is the cinematic interpretation of the live show.
The Impossibility of Being an Apple
An interactive dance film not just to be watched, it's a live game between the screen and the Audience, a bizarre sensorial poem about the possibility of changing and the impossibility of being someone else.
Flying Lesson
Two women bat their wings, preparing to take off. They practice the dream of flight.
Vector Paths World Premiere
A sequence of improvised movement is translated into vector paths using the application motion.
Prototype
Prototype is a 2-minute film, showing a man in the process of being shot. The hail of bullets shakes his body, his hands cramp, he reels round, end of the film.
The Forgotten Circus European Premiere
With his last breath, the ringmaster breathes life back into his circus. Suspended somewhere between world's The Forgotten Circus perform to no audience. Mixing circus, physical theatre, dance and narrative with a hypnotic score from The Irrepressibles, the film creates a surreal world that floods the imagination and seeps under the skin.Total Time: 61 minutes
Dark Dance Duo
Saturday 6 December, 16.00 - 17.00Lighthouse Digital Lounge
£5, 4 conc
A Heretic's Primer on Love andExertion: 29 Incidents of dual Consequence
Pilfering from the traditions of vaudeville, dance and performance art -Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen slip from monologue to dance, trousers to dresses, female to male, in a collection of 29 related incidents.
Pavillion Noir
Parodic fiction by Pierre Coulibeuf based on choreographic proposals by Angelin Preljocaj. The seven characters who move in the architecture of Rudy Ricciotti's Pavillon Noir break shamelessly with the codes of choreography and cinema: contamination, overflow, distance, - fiction tests reality.
Forward Motion Screening
Sallis Benney TheatreSaturday 6 December
7.00pm - 10.00pm
£8 / £7 concs.
Forward Motion brings together approximately 25 films along with interviews and insight into artistic practice, including: Portishead's Only You, introduced by Russell Maliphant; Lea Anderson's rarely seen gem Sardinas; the evocative Vanishing Point, by Rosemary Butcher and the exquisite Hands by Jonathan Burrows and Adam Roberts.
A British Council project co-produced with South East Dance.