Kinetic Cinema is a screening series on the second Wednesday of each month that explores the intersection of dance and the moving image. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the dance and film communities to share the films and videos that have inspired them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Highlights of past programs have included fresh new shorts from the Dance On Camera Festival, a survey of the history of mediatized movement with Brian McCormick, dance films from the popular to the avant-garde selected by Malinda Allen, feminist video art curated by Jonah Bokaer, explorations in experimentalism with Levi Gonzalez, and a tour of inspiringly bad dance films curated by Kriota Willberg.
"Before taking a hiatus for the summer, Kinetic Cinema, the dance films screening series curated by Anna Brady Nuse, went out with a bang! 'The Worst of the Best,' a night of 'bad' dance film, as selected by guest curator Kriota Willberg, featured an array of clips and excerpts that had the audience at Tribeca's Collective:Unconscious in stitches." - Latika Young, Dance On Camera Ezine
"Yeats asked 'How do you tell the dancer from the dance?' Monday night's delightful, insightful show made me ask 'How do you tell the cinema from the dance?'" - Amy Greenfield, filmmaker and cinedance pioneer after attending Kriota Willberg's Kinetic Cinema program.
"I Tube, You Tube, We all Tube for YouTube"
Curated by Jody Oberfelder
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:30pm
Tickets: $10
Reservations:
354 45th St.
New York, NY 10036
For the final Kinetic Cinema of the year, dance filmmaker Jody
Oberfelder presents a humorous and provocative survey of the global
impact of YouTube and how dance artists can best use this platform to
showcase and further their art. In her survey, Oberfelder will show
an array of stunning clips ranging from hilarious fail videos,
bloopers, video-blogging, and a few dance-centric films, to explore
content that captures our attention. What gets the most hits and why?
For more information on this program please visit our blog, Move the Frame.
Kinetic Cinema is a co-presentation of Pentacle's Movement Media with The Tank.
FALL 2009 SEASON
Kinetic Cinema's Fall 2009 Season featured monthly screenings at the Tank in NYC as well as the launch of our first annual
UMOVE Online Videodance Festival on October 4th. In October we also brought a special program curated by award winning choreographer and dance film-maker Victoria Marks to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in conjunction with their ground-breaking Dance with Camera exhibition. Victoria also screened her program here in New York and taught a workshop on her signature style of "Choreographic Portraiture." Cinedance Pioneer Amy Greenfield curated an evening of poetic and alluring dance films on November 11th, and choreographer Jody Oberfelder will explore the phenomenon of viral dance videos on December 9th.
For more info on Pentacle's Movement Media project and news about our upcoming Kinetic Cinema season, please visit our blog:
MovetheFrame
We look forward to seeing you there!
"LIQUID FILMS"
Curated by Amy Greenfield
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 7:30pm $10
New York, NY 10036
For LIQUID FILMS, cinedance pioneer, Amy Greenfield, takes dance into
the water in a splash of amazing classic and neo cine-dance from 1903
to the 21st century, to transform the very nature of dance as only a
screen medium can.
Kinetic Cinema with Victoria Marks
Wednesday, October 21st, 6:30pm.
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, October 22nd, 7:00pm. $10
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
New York, NY 10002
Award-winning choreographer and dance film-maker, Victoria
Marks presents a program in which she weaves together her main
cinematic influences with her own dance film work.
"Kill The Ego"
by Soundwalk and Rostarr
Curated by Lisa Niedermeyer
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 7:30pm $10
The Tank
354 45th St.
New York, NY 10036
Conceived originally
as a sound collage by Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham of the
new media firm Soundwalk, 'Kill The Ego' draws on a decade's worth of
New York City field recordings "voices of pimps and engineers, poets
and dominatrixs, visionaries and children, hope and sorrow." Fueled by
this sound, underground visual artist Rostarr experiments with gravity,
momentum, torque and combinations of all three (break dancing on his
canvases) as directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane bring to cinematic
life Soundwalk's original audio collage and Rostarr's visual work,
culminating in a uniquely kinetic representation of New York City.
View the trailer
"REALITY DANCEVISION:
An Intimate Screen Capture of Dance Vloggers"
Curated by Boris Willis
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:00pm $10
Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
Brooklyn, NY 11206
This
last Kinetic Cinema of the season featured Boris Willis, a dancer,
choreographer, video-maker and blogger based in Washington DC. Willis
explored the phenomena of dance vlogs (video blogs about dance) and
presented works by of some of the most notable and prolific dance
vloggers today. In 2007-08 Willis published the vlog "Dance-a-day" in
which he made and posted a dance video every day for 365 days. From his
first video shot in a parking lot demonstrating effeminate gestures, to
an entire month of posts about important sites of Black history in
Washington DC, as well as 43 collaborations with composer David Morneau
(who also posted a composition a day on his blog 60x365.com) , Willis
covered the entire range of styles, experiments, and types of
improvisation one can do with dance and a video camera.
For more information on this program please visit our blog,
Move the Frame.
This Kinetic Cinema was a co-presentation with Chez Bushwick and made
possible through a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. Grants are made to support efforts to strengthen areas that
directly affect the context in which artists work.
