Re:PLAY

re:PLAY 2013
media workshops schedule

PROGRAM

Re:PLAY 2013

January 7 -16, 2013

MFDC, Palace Gate
10:30AM – 4PM

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Monday, January 7, 2013
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp

CASE STUDY:
LATCHO DROM

LATCHO DROM
Tony Gatlif, France, 1993, 80 min.

A cinematic masterpiece, Latcho Drom ("safe journey") is directed and written by the gypsy (Rom) Tony Gatlif. Trance-enducing music and superb photography gives you an un-explained, poetry sense of life style of the gypsies in 9 countries.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp


CASE STUDY:
Festival of Nations (Part 1)

OLYMPIA
Festival of Nations (Part 1)
Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 1938, 121 min

Documenting the 1936 Berlin Olympics, this universally lauded but politically controversial film was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many ground-breaking motion picture techniques, Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp

CASE STUDY:
Festival of Nations (Part 1)

OLYMPIA
Festival of Nations (Part 2)
Leni Riefenstahl, Germany, 1938, 96 min

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Thurs. January 10
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
MFDC. 10 AM. Registration required.

» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
DANCE OF DARKNESS

DANCE OF DARKNESS
Edin Velez, USA, 1989, 58 min.

This acclaimed experimental, multi-layered documentary explores Butoh, the radical dance movement that developed in Japan in the early 1960s. Characterized by frank sexuality and bodily distortions, Butoh performance elevates the subconscious to theatrical spectacle, in the tradition of Kabuki and Noh.


With: URBAN CLAN

Michelle Mahrer, Australia, 1998, 55 min.

Three brothers grow up as urban Aboriginals, develop as individual artists and are brought to the Bangarra Dance Theatre by its director, Stephen Page. The theme of the family is the anchor of the film.

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Friday. January 11
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
FOCUS ON THE NETHERLANDS: CLARA VAN GOOL

FOCUS ON THE NETHERLANDS: CLARA VAN GOOL
Clara van Gool, The Netherlands, 2002-12, 90 min. approx.

Clara van Gool has had a steady success making screen adaptations of dance classics. This program will also include excerpts from Zikr shot in Chechnya, Bitings and Other Effects, Nussim, and Reimerswaal.

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Saturday. January 12
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
MFDC. 10 AM. Registration required.

» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
A DANCE TRIBUTE TO FOOTBALL AND PING PONG

A DANCE TRIBUTE TO FOOTBALL AND PING PONG
Jo Stromgren, Norway, 2008, 90 min
These performance films delve into the physical and the aesthetic. The choreography for football comments on the artificial conflict between the "common sports" and the "eloquent arts". Another work, bows to the more delicate sport of ping pong.

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Sunday, January 13
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Film Appreciation and Dance Culture: Workshop by Deirdre Towers
» Observational Video: Workshop by Iben Trino-Molenkamp
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET

ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
Nils Tavernier, France, 2001, 100 min.
A celebration of the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet, Etoiles weaves together rehearsals and tour snapshots of classical ballets as well as contemporary works. Some of the biggest stars in dance today talk about how and why they endure the emotional and physical hardships of the drive to be on stage.

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Monday, January 14
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:

MASTER QI AND THE MONKEY

MASTER QI AND THE MONKEY
Alan Govenar, USA, 2012, 81 min.
This beautifully realized documentary chronicles the life and work of Qi Shu Fang, one of the preeminent masters of Chinese Opera living in the United States. The film highlights the intricacies of Peking Opera, an art form that is hardly known in the West and is declining in popularity in China. At the same time it explores why Ms. Qi, her husband, Ding Mei-kui, and their company of Chinese Opera performers have made the difficult move to the United States, where they, like so many immigrants, must balance pressures to assimilate with the needs of cultural expression and preservation.

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Tuesday, January 15
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA

THE LAST TIGHTROPE DANCER IN ARMENIA
Inna Sahakyan and Arman Yeritsyan, Armenia, 2010, 80 min.
Once the most celebrated masters of tightrope dancing in Armenia, Zhora (age 76) and Knyaz (age 77) are the only surviving performers who can keep this traditional art alive. Longtime bitter rivals, they come together to train the only student of tightrope dancing left in their country. Hovsep, a 16-year-old orphan boy, must decide whether or not to accept the role of the last tightrope dancer in Armenia, in a society that has abandoned both him and this ancient art form.
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Wednesday, January 16
10:30 – 4 PM

WORKSHOPS
» Screenwriting II: Workshop by Alexandra Viets

CASE STUDY:
MAO’S LAST DANCER

MAO'S LAST DANCER
Bruce Beresford, Australia, 2009, 117 min.
A feature film by the director of Breaker Morant and the multiple Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy, this drama is based on the autobiography by the dancer turned US stockbroker Li Cunxin who was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.