Jumping Frames (Programme I) Competition Finalist Showcase (Open Section) (CCDC)

Jumping Frames International Dance Video Competition is highly competitive this year. Among 200 works received we carefully selected a highly diverse collection which will be shown in 2 programmes. A "Jumping Frames International Dance Video Award", "Award for Chinese Dance Filmmakers" and "Audience Choice Award" will be picked from jury and audience respectively. Result will be announced in the screening of 14 August.

Some Chinese titles are decided by the festival organiser. They are not official titles.

Movie Name: Instinct
Langauge: -
Duration: 8 Mins
Director: Marieke Helmus
Story: The INSTINCT film discovers instinctive human and animalistic movement and how they intertwine. Coming from somatic principles these movements give us another perspective on our relation to our (human) nature. The INSTINCT film discovers instinctive human and animalistic movement and how they intertwine. Coming from somatic principles these movements give us another perspective on our relation to our (human) nature.

Movie Name: Kintsugi
Langauge: -
Duration: 4 Mins
Director: Apotropia (A. Mignone C. Panepuccia)
Story: Kintsugi, which means "golden joinery", is the japanese technique of mending broken ceramics with gold filled resin. This technique has its roots in the belief that the object is more valuable and beautiful with its history revealed. Bodies also tell us their story. Some of them say it loud.

Movie Name: While We Weave
Langauge: -
Duration: 8 Mins
Director: Wafa'a Halawi
Story: A yaraqa — silkworm in English— intricately weaves a delicate yet strong silk-webbed cocoon around itself as it transforms into its full potential. Inspired by this creature at work, particularly the weaving stage, 11 performers and a camera met to dance and move in an old Lebanese silk factory.

Movie Name: Solo Female Dance
Langauge: -
Duration: 12 Mins
Director: Kim Teoh
Story: ‘Solo Female Dance’ is a non-verbal story works and it was inspired by dancer Loke and Sim. Dancer Loke believe that, a well-trained dancer would lost its skill due to time erosion and insufficient facility.

Movie Name: Spark
Langauge: -
Duration: 3 Mins
Director: Boris Seewald
Story: An encounter between classical dance, geometry and electronic music. A dynamic blend of dual aspects. There are times to follow and times to lead. Geometric and free flowing visual lines blend with classical and electronic music; forming a hypnotic rythmn of contrasting elements.

Movie Name: Crushing Weight
Langauge: -
Duration: 4 Mins
Director: Vinícius Cardoso
Story: This is a visual poem that goes from decay to light. It's a soul walking through this abandoned place. A spirit that passes and is no longer there. It is the transcendence represented by dance in chaos. Even in the moments when she is very powerful, all moves have an ambiguity.

Movie Name: Son Du Serpent
Langauge: -
Duration: 12 Mins
Director: Tami Ravid
Story: Dance film about the quest of a man looking for his wife after they lost their child. During his journey, he is torn between the modern and the traditional African world.

Movie Name: Disco
Langauge: -
Duration: 4 Mins
Director: Boris Seewald
Story: A handmade dance video of 1250 paintings on paper. The movement of the models appear seamless and smooth, which is simultaneously juxtaposed by the scratchy flickering variations in each new sketch, creating an interesting contrast of chaotic disarray and graceful linearity.

Movie Name: Aquarius
Langauge: -
Duration: 9 Mins
Director: Timo Zhalnin
Story: -

Movie Name: Tailored
Langauge: -
Duration: 1 Mins
Director: Marco Longo, Alessandra Elettra Badoino, Marina Giardina, Fabio Poggi
Story: -

Movie Name: XXSOFIA
Langauge: -
Duration: 6 Mins
Director: Boriana Pandova
Story: -

* With Post-screening Discussion