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Comment by Onur Topal Sumer on June 16, 2009 at 2:09am

“Dance Camera Istanbul 2009”
II. International Dance Film Festival

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:


The “Dance Camera Istanbul” 2nd International Dance Film Festival will be held in Istanbul, Turkey in between October 15th and November 15th 2009, focusing on video dance, dance on camera, dance photography and dance film screenings.“Dance Camera Istanbul” annually showcases international dance films, camera re-works and experimental movement-based films by contemporary video artists and choreographers from the student to professional level. There is no restriction on the subject.

The festival supports films which investigate the ongoing search for movement and spaces, both in and out of bodies.

The aim of the festival is to build a community for both dancers and filmmakers to come together, to present and promote both local and cutting edge international works, to share ideas, and to provide a collaborative experience for dancers and filmmakers as they work together to produce the final product.

“Dance Camera Istanbul” also focuses on increasing attention and awareness of the collaborations between dance, film, visual arts and music as well as the different mediums and forms of dance. The goals of “Dance Camera Istanbul” are to offer a proper venue in which to screen and share the works, to encourage and educate student dance filmmakers, to spread the knowledge of dance for camera, and to deepen the understanding of Turkish and international dance film practices through panels, practical workshops, discussions and screenings.
We are seeking enthusiastic individuals and groups who are strongly focused (or want to focus) on dance for camera work, video or multimedia installation collaborations. Examples include video dance, dance documentary, adaptation of a stage work or site specific creation, any kind of artistic and experimental work with kinesthetic energy and rhythmic design, and choreographic works that are created specifically for the lens of the camera and include a well- planned editing process. We invite you to be part of the “Dance Camera Istanbul Festival” family. Accepted works will be screened in various venues in Istanbul and throughout Turkey. In attendance will be Turkish and international dancers, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, artists and students, as well as both national and international audiences. During the festival, we will organize discussions between the artists, filmmakers and audience after the screenings.


Dance Film Workshops and Lectures/Panels

The workshops will be directed by acclaimed national and international dance and video artists, filmmakers and choreographers who will introduce different approaches to camera, dance and movement as well as providing information about video dance history, archives and links for further research. The workshops will take place at several dance studios and stages as well as access to indoor and outdoor spaces for filming. During the festival month, there will be national and international lectures serious on the dance camera work and the related fields. If you are interested in honoring us with your presence and lecture, please contact with us in regards to your possible topic. It would be our pleasure to start and organize a growing artistic environment and relationship.


Partners and Sponsors

“Dance Camera Istanbul” collaborates with several cultural institutions for visual artists, choreographers, performers and with many other highly appreciated contributors. Also we are delighted to partner with DFA (Dance Films Association) as touring partnership. Our sponsors and partners will be announced in the near future.

Submission

To submit your work into the Dance Camera Istanbul Festival, please visit our website and fill the application-entry form. We will need 4 DVDs preferably in PAL format. The deadline is July 15th, 2009.

By submitting your work you agree to give the rights to “Dance Camera Istanbul” to screen your work and archive it for the anticipated festival library.

Please fill the online entry form our website. You may submit your film to the address below:

Aylin Kalem

Santralistanbul
E4 - 306
Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı
Silahtarağa Mah. Kazım Karabekir cad. No:1
Eyüp - İstanbul Turkey 34060


Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information and sponsorship opportunities.

We are looking forward to welcome you all...

Thank you!

Dance Camera Istanbul Festival Director

Onur Topal – Sümer

onur.topalsumer@dancecamera-istanbul.org
www.dancecamera-istanbul.orghttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44764578661&ref=ts

Comment by dance-techTV on May 18, 2009 at 10:23am

Hello all,
this is marlon.
We are broadcasting in dance-techTV in exclusive the complete version of The Moebius Strip from Giilles Jobin and Vincent Pluss .
You can watch it in the loop od dance-techTV and in this post:
http://www.dance-tech.net/profiles/blogs/screendance-dancetechtv

This is the very first time that we broadcast a complete dance film and it made possible by the generosity of Gilles Jobin company.
I would continue to feature important dance films in excerpts and complete version as soon as they become available. We have received several amazing pieces that will be featured bi monthly.
I also would like to know if any of you would like to help with your own content or co-curating the series, sponsoring, etc. two weekends a month dedicated to dance on films...ideas...?
Please get in touch with me:
marlon@dance-tech.net

Comment by Ellen Bromberg on April 14, 2009 at 5:48pm

Hello Dance Film Friends,

Here's a little more info on the September workshop I posted about earlier. Of most importance at this time is the call for student works. If you teach, please let your students know about the deadline before they leave for the summer so they can plan to submit. We will be bringing in a great jury and their comments will be available to your students, which can be quite valuable for them.

In response to Jody's interesting comment about submitting unfinished works, if a student would like to submit an unfinished work for feedback only, I think that would be fine. However, they would need to identify it as such. Unfinished works would not be screened, but if there's time for jury feedback, that could be valuable for them as well.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Please mark your calendars (and have your students do so also) for the University of Utah’s 7th International Dance for the Camera Festival and Workshop with award-winning Canadian filmmaker, Laura Taler (bio below), September 10-12, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah. With three evening screenings and a two-day hands-on workshop, it promises to be a great weekend immersion in Dance for the Camera. Registration Fee: $150 USD

Call for Student Submissions:
Students who are submitting works must be or must have been enrolled in a full-time university undergraduate or graduate degree program, or a dance film workshop when the work was made. The postmark deadline for all submissions (national and international) is 5:00 pm, Friday, July 17, 2009. Please submit Region 1 or All Region DVDs. DVDs will not be returned. Jury-selected student films will be screened the opening night of the festival.

The website is currently being redesigned, but detailed information will be available soon at: www.dance.utah.edu or http://www.film.utah.edu/

I will post again once the website is up, but for immediate information regarding the festival, contact me at: e.bromberg@utah.edu

For immediate information regarding the student submissions, contact either:
Shannon Vance, allthe5dance@yahoo.com or Erin Empey, erin_eb@hotmail.com


Laura Taler (Canada) — Romanian-born director Laura Taler began her career as a choreographer. Her exploration of the effect of movement in different media and in unusual places led to performances intertwined with photography, text, and film footage: in a cemetery, a bar-room, on the stage, and on the screen. In 1995 she made her directorial debut with the award-winning dancefilm “the village trilogy”. Since then Taler has created over a dozen films that have been broadcast on the CBC (Canada), Bravo! (Canada), W (Canada), TfO (Ontario), ARTV (Quebec), Bravo (U.S.), Channel 4 (U.K.), NPS (The Netherlands), Kunstkanaal (The Netherlands), ABC (Australia), IBA (Israel), SVT (Sweden) and in numerous festivals and special screenings internationally. Taler also conducts dancefilm workshops around the world. Filmography: the village trilogy (1995); Heartland (1997); Dances For A Small Screen (1997); A Very Dangerous Pastime (2000); Perpetual Motion (2002); DEATH and the MAIDEN (2003); FORSAKEN (2005); THE SORCERER (2006).

Comment by Constance Cooke on April 13, 2009 at 11:53pm

5TH ANNUAL
DANCE FOR THE CAMERA 2009
INTENSIVE SUMMER PROGRAM
JULY 18 TO JULY 31, 2009
VICTORIA BC CANADA
DFTC 2009 is a unique opportunity for established and emerging choreographers, filmmakers, videographers, dancers and visual artists to explore dance/movement for the camera under the mentorship of award winning choreographer, filmmaker, curator, educator and recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), Ellen Bromberg.

PROGRAM
DFTC’s participants are individually assisted while exploring the technical, practical and artistic challenges involved in producing a dance/movement video in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Exercises with camera and dance are explored before diving into your finale video project

Daily screenings of contemporary dance films representing the cutting edge of DFTC are followed by discussions.

Screenings of your video project/s in progress are followed by critical feedback to assist you in bringing your final video project to a public screening on the last day of the DFTC program. view the trailer and other DFTC videos

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
MediaNet, sponsor of DFTC, have two technicians on board to advise and support you in your technical needs.

EQUIPMENT
Access to cameras, tripods, lighting kits, and Final Cut Pro edit suites.
View technical support page

MOVEMENT CLASSES
Constance Cooke, artistic director of Victoria School of Contemporary Dance, starts off each day with a modern movement class, developed especially for DFTC’s program.

INVITATION TO DANCERS
Dancers who would like to be part of this project as “dancers/performers only” please visit our CALL FOR DANCERS page for more information.

REGISTRATION


Pay before April 1, 2009 only $1,100 C$




$1300 Canadian
APPLICATION DEADLINE June 1st,2009
Early Bird registration $1100 Canadian
Early Bird deadline - April 1, 2009
BC residents - e-mail Grace Salez for special scholarship rate -

Download registration form in PDF

MediaNet
#106 — 2750 Quadra Street
Victoria, BC V8T 4E8
Canada
For more information 250-381-4428

*Visit our Dance for the Camera Gallery and view DFTC individual video projects completed by the program’s participants.

Works from Dance for the Camera have screened in festivals such as: Leeds International Film Festival; Portobello; London; FLEXIFF, Australia; Stem Cell Film Festival; Herland Film and Video Festival, Edmonton; Northwest Film Forum- Local Sightings, Seattle; Dance on Camera New York; Lincoln Center. NY; Bassel, Switzerland; Local Visions; Romp!, Victoria; Baltimore Women's Film Festival; St John's Newfoundland; MADance Screen Salon, Toronto.

Comment by Beth Fein on April 11, 2009 at 1:37am

April 24, 2009 - where will you be?

dance anywhere

noon - San Francisco / 3pm - NY and Chile / 9pm - Paris or Rome / 10pm Ankara or Jerusalem / etc...
anywhere around the world...

Stop, DANCE & take a photo or video! Send it to http://www.danceanywhere.org
This is a non-profit public art project that celebrates dance / art practice as an integral part of life.

Register your dance/photography today on http://www.danceanywhere.org
Thank you for reading!

Comment by Mathew Heggem on January 5, 2009 at 12:28am

Hello Dance on Camera Members!

As you may well know, the Festival has come. So, brush up on your dance film knowledge & attend the following:

DFA & Movement Research Co-Present...
at the Judson Memorial Church, Meeting Hall
55 Washington Square South, West 4th Street, NYC

January 6th discussion led by Stacy Spence
Theme: Narrative/Abstract and Environments
Excerpts from Helenka, Black Spring, Mobius Strip, Night Practice

January 13 Discussion led by Karl Cronin and Pavel Zustiak
Themes: Power of Limits, Human/Animal Interaction & influence,
Cultural relationship to environment
Excerpts from Alt I Alt, Touched, Poem, Inearthia, Reines d'un Jour, Lacho Drom

Hope to see you all there!

http://www.dancefilmsassn.org/DanceOnCamMR09.html

Comment by simon fildes on September 16, 2008 at 5:28am

This seems to be the largest group on dance tech maybe it should do more?

Comment by Reels 4 Artists on September 2, 2008 at 10:29am

Anyone looking to do some video work?
Check out our myspace page - www.myspace.com/reels4artists and let us know if we can help!

Comment by Jody Oberfelder on April 21, 2008 at 11:39pm

When people submit a film, should it always be finished, or for this format, is 'in progress' ok? I think the students who take my workshop 'Partnering with Camera' may have some material, but not finished products. Is there a forum for this kind of dance/film in progress for response, but not judgement? Maybe the process of experimenting gets squelched by too many demands for the finish line. Would people be open for un-finished work, in glimpses?

Comment by CreationEditor on April 9, 2008 at 6:28am

More news about my residency on page 19 in the latest Dancehouse Brochure:
http://www.dancehouse.org/_pdf/dancehouseprogramme.pdf

Might see you there,
Sabine

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