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Open Call BIDFF '17


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Open Call BIDFF '17


OPEN CALL BIDFF#3 - Deadline June 30, 2017

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Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (September 7th-10th, 2017) invites directors, choreographers and artists to submit their dance films to the third edition of BIDFF.

2017 FESTIVAL THEME

This year's festival theme is The Age of The Strange, through which we question the authenticity of our daily lives in the troubling context of a world in crisis, embracing contradiction and fragility as vectors in our trajectory. 

Last year alarming geopolitical events have generated an acute form of social paranoia. We have heard more than never the phrases "fake news" and "fall of democracy", while the chaos of the digital world has provoked an atmosphere of global uncertainty. How do we respond to these sudden changes and what is their real impact on our lives? Can we still talk today about "the natural" and "the organic" or do we live in a world in which everything has been altered so much, that all we have left is a feeling of strange interconnectivity? In this almost dystopian context, we might feel the need of authenticity, simplicity, unfiltered imperfection and debatable identity.

SUBMISSION requirements

The competition is open for short dance films (fiction, documentaries and animations) around the world, with a prize pool of 3000 euro.

BIDFF is looking for cutting edge dance films with a transparent and sometimes coded meaning, challenging the viewer to a playful exchange of information about social life, politics, extreme emotions, out of the ordinary places and oddly beautiful dance aesthetics. BIDFF encourages syncretism and dialogue between movement and the diverse forms of cinema from the most traditional to experimental. 

  • Shorts of maximum 15 minutes will be accepted and should be produced in the last 2 years.
  • A minimum quality of Full HD (1920 x 1080) is required for the exhibition copies.
  • You can submit a maximum of 2 films. Both can be taken into consideration.
  • Films submitted to previous editions of the festival will not be taken into consideration.
  • Three movies shall be awarded by a professional jury appointed by the organizers. The jury members will be made public prior the festival.

SUBMISSION FORM

To submit your films to the festival please fill in the form: https://tinyurl.com/bidff2017

DEADLINE

June 30th, 2017

CONTACT INFO

Irena Isbasescu
international relations
contact@bidff.ro
 

 
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BIDFF '16


20 dance films in competition, groundbreaking documentaries, digital art installations, public talks, guest artists

BIDFF '16


20 dance films in competition, groundbreaking documentaries, digital art installations, public talks, guest artists

 timetable bidff'16

 

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PROGRAMME


9 - 13 NOV 2016

PROGRAMME


9 - 13 NOV 2016

BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL '16

 

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (BIDFF) is the only Romanian festival dedicated to the dance film. Last year we had our succesfull debut with a 54 dance films marathon from all over the world, of whom we awarded 4 short films that challenged the limits of the genre and that intrigued the jury. The second edition of the festival brings to Bucharest the two most awarded documentary dance films:  Mr. Gaga (d: Tomer Heymann), which captures the internal laboratory of on of the most important contemporary choreographers - Ohad Naharin, alongside with his company, Batsheva Dance Company and Rare Birds (d: T.M. Rives) which captures the backstage of one of the most daring stagings of A Swan Lake, directed by Alexander Ekman, at the Norvegian National Opera House from Oslo.

Among the international guests of the festival there are: the renowned austrian choreographer Chris Haring, awarded with the Golden Lion in the frame of Biennale di Venezia, the multimedia artist Claudia Hart (SUA), the directors Samuel Retortillo, Alex Pachon (Spania) and T.M. Rives (SUA). The showcase of the festival has its opening on the 9th of November with an international conference - Intermedia Body - a concept developed by Mihaela Kavdanska, an event co-organized by Platforma Avmotional with the participation of the multimedia artists Antoni Rayzhekov and Gerhard Funk from Austria, alongside with romanian artists like: Catalin Cretu, Cinty Ionescu, Raluca Nestor Oancea, Cristian Iordache and Simona Deaconescu. Besides the competing and non-competing, this year BIDFF organizes at the Galateca Gallery the international Digital Body Exhibition. 

 

AWARDS

 

Best FILM:

"WOMEN'S CHRISTMAS NIGHT" by Oonagh Kearney (1000 EUR given by The Romanian Cultural Institute)

Best choreography:

"FOR A MOMENT" by Clemence Poesy ( prize worth 500 EUR)

best digital installation:

"THE LOOKING TRACE" by Camila Levy Daniel, Leyla de la Hoz & Pedro Giacomolli (prize worth 500 EUR)

 

SPECIAL Mentions


Official competition


"HELENA" by Nadav Heyman
"WEREWOLF HEART" by Christian Weber

THE DIGITAL BODY EXHIBITION


"CRYSTAL FORMING ROBOTS ON OVERHEAD" by Christian Faubel
"o.T." by M.Kardinal

 

Festival agenda

intermedia body - artistic research meetings

9 NOV | 12:00 - 16:00

@NAtional University of music - Auditorium hall

international conference series

curator: Mihaela Kavdanska (RO/BG/AT)

 

At the border between body & media, in the ­eld of performing arts, these practitioners meet to share and exchange ideas, experience and knowledge about the work process during the realization of their projects in the context of the contemporary art world. The event gives the possibility for innovative projects to be presented in a format of public talks/ presentations, followed by Q&A sessions.

 The topics of discussions will gravitate around the inter-media oneness in stage-based interaction,  the human body as interface for interaction and tool for audio-visual expression, the role of the media as a “digital performer on stage", the transformative experiences during the interdisciplinary work process, the trans-cultural body, AR and VR in theatre performances and many more.

 
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The DiGital body exhibiton

9 NOV | 19:00

@Galateca Gallery

digital art exhibition

curators: Simona Deaconescu & Emilia Paunescu (RO)

 

Artists from Germany, Italy, Finland, Great Britain and Austria present their research and digital artworks, challenging both the cognitive and the emotional system of the audience. Nine works of video art, robotics, animation, sound engineering and live performance are playfully exhibited in the futuristic space of Galateca Gallery. 

The body is a matrix of data, emotionally encapsulated, defragmented and disembodied, in a constant flow of fake memories and super sensorial experimentation. Extracorporeal digital age is a reality that requires a network of information to replicate itself over and over again. Who are you in this environment and how do you deal with it?

The exhibition will be open until the 13th of November, between 12PM and 8PM.

 

The chicken or the egg?

10 NOV | 10:00 - 13:00

@the national university of theatre and film ”i.l.caragiale”

masterclass with Alex Pachon (ESP)

 

I will share my point of view on dance and film and we will discuss a little bit about dance, cinema and music. The intensive masterclass is open to up to 20 participants, which will create a collective work using body percussion, shameless, contemporary dance, cracks, body noises, and cinematic experimentation.

 
 

Just A Little Avatar DanCE: An Artist’s Journey

10 NOV | 19:00 - 20:00

@galateca gallery

artist talk with Claudia Hart (SUA)

 

I started working with 3D animation 21 years ago, in 1995.  I started teaching it almost immediately after in commercial productions schools or engineering schools.   In these environments I was the only woman, and a contemporary artist, showing her work in experimental galleries which were mostly in Soho, in NYC.  It was my secret life.  I never talked about it to my students. In the frame of the lecture especially developed for BIDFF'16, I will tell the story of the evolution of my avatar dance language as emerging from these politicised and feminist beginnings as shown in my works.

 

MIRIAM RADUCANU - stories about sense and senz

11 NOV | 18:00 - 18:45

@the national center of dance bucharest

film screening and talk

with Alina Usurelu and Gina Serbanescu 

 

At the beginning of the summer of 2016 Gina serbanescu and Alina Usurelu started a research project on the life and work of the great lady of the Romanian dance, Miriam Raducanu. After many interviews, archive research and discovery of stories from behind the scenes, they decided to make a book and a documentary movie. During the event they will present the process of their research and fragments from the interviews with Mrs Miriam, a series of interviews woven in premiere archive images.

 

 

 
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Strange Body in Artificial Paradise

11 NOV | 19:00 - 19:45

@the national center of dance bucharest

lecture

with Chris Haring

 

Chris Haring is one of the most popular choreographers of the last decade. Invited as a member of the jury in the festival, Chris Haring will hold a public presentation in which he will expose to the Romanian public the laboratory and the creation process of the Liquid Loft company, a process based on the influence of the social media networks on the contemporary man and the way in which this subject has influenced the performative arts of the last years.

 

MR. GAGA - IN the mind of ohad nahariN

11 NOV | 20:00 - 22:00

@the NAtional center of dance Bucharest

documentary film, 100', 2015 (IL, SE, DE, NL)

 

The director Tomer Heymann captures with great tenacity the portrait of Ohad Naharin, the most renowned Israeli choreographer, considered to be the man who reinvented modern dance. As an artistic director of Batsheva company, Ohad Naharin developed the Gaga technique, which became a phenomenon in the world of contemporary dance. The documentary presents the artist in his sixties, in a critical point of his life, opening for the first time his laboratory to an audience, in a movie that took 8 years to reach the big screen.

 

Songs from My Analogue Utopia

12 NOV | 15:00 - 16:00

@Galateca Gallery

shadow-play performance and Q&A session

with Christian Faubel (DE)

 

In songs from my analogue utopia I explore the self- organizing coordination dynamics of analog oscillators and the Utopian potentials of analogue communication. In analogue communication synchronization and coordination appear as an emergent effects and are not codified. Because synchronization results from the mutual interaction of two or more processes, not a single process is dominating the other. It is in the mutuality and in the degrees of freedom of each participating process where i see the Utopian potential of analogue communication.

 

REFLEXIons

OFFICIAL COMPETITION I

12 NOV | 19:00 - 20:15

@ the national Music University - Opera and multimedia Studio

short film selection, 65'

 

The official competition kicks off with ten short dance films that will revive you and will make you wonder. These films are deeply anchored in reality, in which the body is partially, but never totally adulterated, always having the power to start all over again. The directors and choreographers from USA, Chile, Finland, UK, The Netherlands, France and Germany are taking on different routes but with a common goal, to sensitize the masses both regarding the action and the review of each individual’s inner world. We are presenting for the first time in Romania a platform with dozens of mercenary bodies which keep facing the same hard surface repeatedly, always returning changed in a world where all the rules remain the same. We gathered the catalysts of change, those who dare to face the environment when needed or celebrate life when necessary.

 

REFRACTIONS

OFFICIAL COmpetitio II

12 NOV | 20:30 - 21:45 

@ THE NATIONAL MUSIC UNIVERSITY - OPERA AND MULTIMEDIA STUDIO

short film selection, 65'

 

Dynamically juggling between utopia and dystopia, between the overcrowded and the void, between chaos and monumental science, these films will take you to a sensory journey with an unknown destination, full of adrenaline. Here you can find the outsiders, the rebels and the ones that diverge from the present. In this world, the bodies acquire unusual properties and are moving on bizarre dynamics, going beyond reality into a world where the human changes along with the rules and principles of the natural. Either it appeals to the revival of the past or it places itself in a distant future, the relation between space and time is cautiously unbalanced. 

Directors, choreographers, dance companies and atypical communities propose an alternative space, within which the contemporary principles are reconsidered. Ten different approaches proposed by artistic teams from Russia, Canada, France, The Netherlands and Ireland are building a "cinematographic papier colle" within which the reception possibilities are infinite.  

 

RARE BIRDS

Reinventing a swan lake

13 NOV | 20:30 - 22:00

@ control club

documentary film, 59', 2014 (NO, SUA)

Q&A session with the director T.M. Rives

 

Rare Birds is an intimate look at creativity. Following choreographer Alexander Ekman during production of A Swan Lake (Norwegian National Ballet), the film tracks dance creation from ideas to hard reality. The house’s army of artists and workers took on unique challenges, requiring new approaches to costume and sets, and the installation of a 6000-liter lake onstage. A portrait of Ekman as well as a celebration of the state of the craft (A Swan Lake became a sensation, nominated for the 2014 Prix Benois de la Danse), Rare Birds reveals the challenges and pleasures of production in a major institution.

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FESTIVAL VENUES


FESTIVAL VENUES


the national university of theatre and film "i.l. caragiale" bucharest

75-77 Matei Voievod street 

 

galateca gallery

2 -4 c. a. rosetti street

 

the national center of dance bucharest

80-82 Marasesti boulevard

 

the national university of music bucharest

33 stirbei voda street

 

control CLUB 

4 constantin mille street

 

 

 

 

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TEAM & CONTACT


TEAM & CONTACT


TEAM

Artistic Director

Simona Deaconescu

Festival Manager

Anamaria Antoci 

International Relations

Irena Isbasescu 

Side Events Coordinator

Emilia Paunescu 

PR & Marketing

Catalin Anchidin & Ilinca Belciu 

Communication Assistant

Roxana Mancas

Graphic Design

Anda Safta (BIDFF '16)

Video Editor

Alex Gheorghe

Pre-selection

Gabriela Filippi

Economic Manager

Andreea Tudor

 

CONTACT

E-mail: 

tangajdance@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+40 741 113 365

+40 740 155 602

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