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)
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)
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
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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
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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 |
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