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The Body Canvas

How can artists can be integrated within a performance despite the medium in which they are working? A painter, drawer, filmmaker and dancers move through a series of structured meetings throughout London, developing communication and expression. This film is a culmination of months of laboratories mixing dance on screen with documentary, featuring performers from the London Contemporary Dance School and fine artists. It is co-directed and created by Paul Vernon & Julie Schmidt Andreasen. In 2015 it screened in Copenhagen and was broadcast globally on ikonoTV. Its world premiere was at the Zealous X exhibition (Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London) which was a multi-disciplinary showcase of selected works including film, photography, performance, sculpture and 2D imagery.
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2013   WORLD PREMIERE  Zealous X (Oxo Tower Wharf in London, UK)

2016   Art Video International Film Festival of Cannes / Catalogue Invitation and Inclusion (Cannes, France)
2015   ikono TV / Broadcast in 24hr Digital Dance Event Globally via app, satellite and online (Worldwide / Berlin, Germany)
2015   Young Choreographers Festival / Official Selection at Huset-KBH "Denmark's oldest and largest cultural house" (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2015   Kaleidoscopic Arts Platform / Exhibition Selection (Wandsworth Fringe Festival in London, UK)
2015   Videofocus Biennial Edition / 10-Page Magazine Feature, Interview & Images (France, Germany & Italy)  Read Article
2015   Greensboro Dance Film Festival / Official Selection (Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, USA)
2013   Toothache Duets / "End-of-year Celebraton" Screening Selection (Performance Space in London, UK)
2013   Toothache Duets / Online Art Competition Selection (toothacheduets.com, London)
2013   London Contemporary Dance School / Installation Screening for "Paintformance"(The Place in London, UK)
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The Body Canvas [Short Dance Film] - Trailer Excerpt from Paul Vernon on Vimeo.

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The Body Canvas explores how artists can be integrated within performance despite the medium in which they are working. Mine and Julie's directorial collaboration on The Body Canvas started when I replied to her advert on IdeasTap, in which Julie was asking for a documentary filmmaker to submit work to her for this project and bring out of it a film. After being selected as the collaborator, the film emphasis hovered between documentary and fiction following laboratories I attended and discussions we had. The final product is difficult to pigeon-hole as a dance film or piece of fiction, an experimental film or a documentary. It has traits of all these genres and the methods used while filming. The majority was shot in only one take.

CREDITS

CO-DIRECTORS
Paul Vernon
Julie Schmidt Andreasen

PAINTER
Anna Jung-Seo

DRAWER
John Close

PERFORMERS
Anders Duckworth
Florencia Martina
Francesco Ferrari
Julie Schmidt Andreasen
Patricia Zafra

PRODUCED & CHOREOGRAPHED
Julie Schmidt Andreasen

CINEMATOGRAPHY, CAMERA, EDITING & SOUND DESIGN
Paul Vernon

MUSIC
'Airways' by Ehud Freedman
'Points of Contact' by Chris Lewis

PRODUCTION HELPER, PHOTOGRAPHY & CAMERA
Justinas Brikys

END CREDITS PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul Vernon
Justinas Brikys

SPECIAL THANKS
Jamie McCarthy
Gabriela Tropia
Johnchul Kwon
London Contemporary Dance School
The Place
The Hill Garden & Pergola (Hampstead, London)
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DETAILS

Dance  |  Documentary  |  Experimental

RELEASED
2013

IMAGE
Black & White / PAL

DURATION
20 minutes 23 seconds

LANGUAGE
English

SUBTITLES
None

ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO
16:9

CAMERA
Canon DSLR

LocATIOn

London, UK

phone

+447889785054

E-mail

paul_vernon2046  @  hotmail.co.uk
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