Practices of the Self

Official Competition | Romanian Shorts

6 SEPT | 21:00

National Dance Centre bucharest

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Romanian filmmakers and choreographers meet this year in the complicated web of the self. They are exploring the daily tumult, reestablishing the connection with their own body, discovering new paths towards inappropriate fantasies. Eight experimental short films and an animation will make you question how to connect with yourself and the environment.

When No One's Watching

2:49, Canada , 2018


D: Teodora  Zamfirescu

C: Teodora Zamfirescu

A young man, too young for his business suit and too old to be a fool, walks through an imposing corporate architecture while allowing himself to act out playful and inappropriate behavioural fantasies. “When No One’s Watching” juxtaposes architecture and human behaviour and redefines social, architectural and creative protocols.

 

Pendulum (Selves in Perpetual Motion)


5:00, Romania, 2019

D: Ioana Mischie


A haiku film portraying selves in perpetual motion, in a monochrome universe. Filmed in LA, California

Singing Bodies 

3:38, Romania, 2018

R: Lavinia Pollak

C: Valentina de Piante, Denis Bolborea

We detach from our social perception of public space, we sharpen our senses and we use our bodies as expression of audible and inaudible musicality of the city. We propose a new reference of own impact over the environment, an awareness of the visual and sonorous traces that we leave in space.


|DIS|CONNECTED

03:57, Romania, 2019

D: Maria-Luiza Dimulescu, Catalin Rugina

C: Maria-Luiza Dimulescu

Losing ourselves in the daily tumult, we wake up one day with deep discontent and confusion, with a feeling that we are clueless of ​​who we truly are as individuals. At that point you try to re-establish the connection with your body to your own soul and your own mind and such...you become fully aware  that reconnection is not seemingly as easy.

 

RIVERƧE
04:06, Romania, 2019


D: Daniel Dragoescu

C: Svitlana Pashko / Daniel Dragoescu

"RIVERƧE" is a little story told in dance and movement about changing the way we as humans perceive and interact with our existential space, our environment.



Director & Choreographer: Camelia Neagoe Cinematography: Catalin Rugina Editor: Emil Vasilache Music&Sound Design: Stefan Ruxandra Dancers: I. Catalina Ionescu Mariana Gavriciuc Filip Stoica Maria Luiza Dimulescu

Boot Camp
05:18, Romania, 2019

D: Camelia Neagoe

C: Camelia Neagoe

"Boot Camp" is a visual metaphor for the process of becoming, increasingly stepping out of childhood. It's an expression of reality creeping down on the imaginary, creating a claustrophobic, rigid atmosphere. It's about standing on the threshold between a place of illusory candor and one of darkening lonesomeness. Oscillating between the comforting presence of her past self and the seemingly blank existence outside of her safe space, a girl comes into her adulthood.

RO: - Am o idee, o propunere super tare, o sa-ti placa pentru ca eu stiu ce-ti place. - Da, eu sunt de acord in principiu cu toate supele, ciorbele si sufletele deci e ok. Ma duc sa fac baie la cap, deci, orice jongleaza cu supa. - Ai sa mori de placere. EN: - I have an idea, a dope proposition, you’ll like it cause I know what you like. - Yea, I’m basically down with all soups, broths and souls so I’m sure it’s fine. I’ll go wash my hair, so, anything that juggles with soup. - You’ll love it. TEAM: Director/DOP: Corina Andrian (Red-Cor) Performers/ Choreo: Mariana Gavriciuc, Beatrice Tudor Music: Amatis Chifu Production Assistant: Cristina Tudor

Soup

04:50, Romania, 2019

D: Corina Andrian

C: Mariana Gavriciuc, Beatrice Tudor

- I have an idea, a dope proposition, you’ll like it cause I know what you like.
- Yea, I’m basically down with all soups, broths and souls so I’m sure it’s fine. I'll go wash my hair, so, anything that juggles with soup.
- You’ll love it.




Toate spațiile singurătăților noastre trecute, spațiile în care am suferit de singurătate, ne-am bucurat de singurătate, am dorit singurătatea, am compromis singurătatea, rămîn de neșters în noi. Și, mai precis, ființa nu vrea să le șteargă. Gaston Bachelard - poetica spațiului concept: jean-lorin sterian coregrafie: carmen coțofană imagine și montaj: alina ușurelu muzică: josquin lauton, andreea lupescu performeri: mara caruțașu george dorobanțu radiana enucă fabio gerhold ana ioniță andreea lupescu marine tennerel alina tofan producție: monica istrate imagine dronă: andrei oană multumiri raluca bujor, ioana gheorghiu, robert blaj o producție Graphis 122, homemade culture partener de încredere: Centrul Național al Dansului Programul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziţia Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă de conținutul programului sau de modul în care rezultatele programului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării. vedem locuirea ca pe ceva firesc, la care nu ne gîndim niciodata, dar abilitatea de locuire e condiționata de mediul în care ne-am dezvoltat personalitatea, de interacțiunile cu familia și cu societatea. orice spatiu nou reface prima noastra locuire. prin Singuri Acasă am căutat să descopăr “abilitatile” de locuire ale fiecăruia. oricît de vechi sau de nou ar fi spațiul în care ajungem să trăim nu rămînem singuri niciodată pentru că în mintea noastră locuiesc toți oamenii cu care am interacționat de-a lungul timpului. la rîndul nostru, și noi locuim în mintea altora. de acolo ne facem cu mîna unii altora. (jean-lorin sterian)

Home Alone
13:47, Romania, 2019

D: Jean-Lorin Sterian

C: Carmen Cotofana

We see habitation as something natural, but the ability to inhabit a place is conditioned by the environment in which we have developed our personality, by our interactions with the family and society. Any new space recovers our first habitation. Home Alone, aims to discover the habitation "skills" of each individual.


Sarmalele Reci - MTV is my friend - Out of Competition

06:33, Romania, 2019

D: Radu Popovici

Cristi, a young man, with a lonely and pointless existence, who’s only joy is listening to music on MTV, lives an extraordinary experience. From travelling with the Yellow Submarine to singing on the same stage with his favorite band, Sarmalele Reci, Cristi’s joyful dream changes him forever.



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