The screening is a selection of technically and visually exceptional short films. Three of the films are high-class 4K resolution. The ending film Womb includes 3D elements but would easily make your head spin regardless of them.
The Wunderers speaks up about our society in which the everyday life and norms limit individuals. A woman struggles with the pressure of expectations but finds the courage to change things. The discouraged woman escapes a distressing moment of having a cup of tea to a dark-shaded dance that releases the repressed scream.
Competing for Sunlight: Oak glows the serenity of nature but at the same time passes on a feeling of something inescapable and uncomfortable. It’s as if the oak is telling a story to a man about an emotional dance to distract his thoughts or to ask for help. The soundscape of the film takes the viewer in the middle of nature where the leaves rustle in the wind and the ants bustle on the ground.
Intense Sonder takes the viewer to a majestic scene of a quarry. Between the five dancers there is a powerful tension that changes its form when the dance goes on. It seems that every dancer first tries to help each other and at the next moment stop anyone to leave the quarry. The absence of music makes the intensive dance even more powerful: the sound design is a combination of crunching rocks and eager breathing.
Psychedelic Womb is a celebration of shapes, colours and textures. In six different scenes the dancers move smoothly via bizarre rooms to a space where gravity disappears. Slow tempo of movement and music makes the viewer wait impatiently what happens next. The film plays with visual irritants persuading the eye to search for tiny details in every picture.
Milla Olkkonen
Estimated duration of the screening 60'
The Wunderers speaks up about our society in which the everyday life and norms limit individuals. A woman struggles with the pressure of expectations but finds the courage to change things. The discouraged woman escapes a distressing moment of having a cup of tea to a dark-shaded dance that releases the repressed scream.
Competing for Sunlight: Oak glows the serenity of nature but at the same time passes on a feeling of something inescapable and uncomfortable. It’s as if the oak is telling a story to a man about an emotional dance to distract his thoughts or to ask for help. The soundscape of the film takes the viewer in the middle of nature where the leaves rustle in the wind and the ants bustle on the ground.
Intense Sonder takes the viewer to a majestic scene of a quarry. Between the five dancers there is a powerful tension that changes its form when the dance goes on. It seems that every dancer first tries to help each other and at the next moment stop anyone to leave the quarry. The absence of music makes the intensive dance even more powerful: the sound design is a combination of crunching rocks and eager breathing.
Psychedelic Womb is a celebration of shapes, colours and textures. In six different scenes the dancers move smoothly via bizarre rooms to a space where gravity disappears. Slow tempo of movement and music makes the viewer wait impatiently what happens next. The film plays with visual irritants persuading the eye to search for tiny details in every picture.
Milla Olkkonen
Estimated duration of the screening 60'
The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, AVEK, is giving away a prize 2000 euros in the form of Loikka Award for the best dance film chosen by the international jury. With the donation AVEK wishes to show thanks to Loikka festival celebrating its anniversary as well as to encourage professional dance filmmakers to new accomplishments.
AVEK is a promoter of independent audiovisual productions focusing on documentary films, short films and short animations. AVEK supports the further education of professionals on audiovisual fields, development of audiovisual expression, Finnish audiovisual export and also festivals and events. AVEK operates in connection with the Finnish copyright organisation Kopiosto.
AVEK is a promoter of independent audiovisual productions focusing on documentary films, short films and short animations. AVEK supports the further education of professionals on audiovisual fields, development of audiovisual expression, Finnish audiovisual export and also festivals and events. AVEK operates in connection with the Finnish copyright organisation Kopiosto.
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THE WUNDERERS (2017, FI, 08’23)
Director: Janne Laiho
Choreographer: Ninni Perko Cinematographer: Sakari Rinta-Valkama Composer/ Sound designer: Jarmo Saari Photo: Sakari Rinta-Valkama Production company: Artlab Productions Oy Producer: Kimmo Koskinen Web: artlab.fi |
COMPETING FOR SUNLIGHT: OAK
(2017, DE, BE, AT 06’05) 
Director: Dagmar Dachauer
Choreographer: Dagmar Dachauer, Knut Vikström Precht Cinematographer: Kilian Immervoll Composer: Äänisuunnittelija / Sound designer: Daniel Perez Hajdu Production company: Umfug Producer: Dagmar Dachauer Photo: Kilian Immervoll Web: dagmardachauer.com Co-presented with Bestias Danzantes |
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SONDER (2017, RO, 12’20)
Director: Simona Deaconescu
Choreographer: Simona Deaconescu Cinematographer: Tudor Panduru Photo: Andrei Dascalescu Production company: Tangaj Dance Producer: Anamaria Antoci Web: tudorvladimirpanduru.com/sonder.html |
WOMB (2016, CH, 32’51)
Director: Gilles Jobin
Choreographer: Gilles Jobin Cinematographer: Patrick Tresch Composer /Sound designer: Franz Treichler Photo: Cie Gilles Jobin Production company: Cie Gilles Jobin Producer: Gilles Jobin Web: gillesjobin.com |
Banner photo: Sonder (2017, RO) / Director: Simona Deaconescu / Photo: Andrei Dascalescu
