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Western cultural norms tend to define a certain age threshold for societal value, which the dance world tends to lower at all turns. In the dance field, it’s normal to see professional dance artists hanging up their shoes before the age of forty, leaving a dearth of voices, perspectives and experiences that could push the field forward.

The Frameform team discusses how the inclusion of elder dancers both in front of and behind the camera can provide a greater variety and depth of stories told in dance film and steer the field away from overused and potentially harmful tropes. 

This episode also includes an interview with Ingrid Nachstern, which chronicles her process of starting to create dance work and dance films later in life and touches on the themes and experiences behind the film Shoe Horn/Office

Follow Ingrid Nachstern @countesstyraska and @nightstardancecompany

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FEATURED

ALL (2017)

Dir by Sarah C Prinz + Danny Rosenberg

Shoe Horn/Office (2018)

Dir. by Ingrid Nachtern

WAKE (2019)

Dir. Naomi Turner and Katie Beard

Clare’s Film Rec - Small Axe | Lovers Rock

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CHAPTERS

00:10  Start

05:11  ALL

13:55  Interview with Ingrid Nachstern

37:30  Thoughts on Shoe Horn/Office

41:35  Making work no matter how old you are

45:01  WAKE

50:03  How would the films be different with younger movers?

56:41  Close

57:13  Announcements

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Short Waves Festival

Poznań, Poland

Online + In-Person

June 14th - June 20

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In this season’s edition of Rewind, we connect with Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen, also known as The Physical TV Company: Australia’s premier company for the production and distribution of “stories told by the body.”

We discuss their multi-decade collaboration and how, among other things, they derive inspiration from classic cinema and reframe cinema’s history in the process.

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FEATURED 

The Physical TV Company

@physicaltv @karenpearlman @richardjamesallen 

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WOMAN WITH AN EDITING BENCH (2016)

Dir. by Karen Pearlman

DIGITAL AFTERLIVES (2018)

Dir. by Richard James Allen & Karen Pearlman 

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Other Mentions:
Modern Times (1936)
Dir. Charlie Chaplin

BONUS MATERIAL
A Dance of Definitions - Article by Karen Pearlman
After the Facts - Article 
Genres of Screendance Venn Diagram

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CHAPTERS

01:56 Introducing: The Physical TV Company

08:30 Woman with an Editing Bench
11:47 Embracing genre-fluidity
19:39 Overcoming The Tyranny of Distance

23:37 Digital Afterlives

27:59 Lessons learned & pearls of wisdom

33:27 Outro

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MAP Lab

June 4th - 6th

Online via Zoom

Introducing MAP Lab: Movement, Architecture, and Production. A brand new virtual workshop that culminates in the creation of your own (virtual) site-specific dance film!

In MAP Lab, you will have the opportunity to create your own tool kit for composing bodies in space in the virtual realm. Throughout the weekend, participants will take classes from renowned architects, dancers, and videographers, learning different topologies and mapping strategies to explore intersectionality of body and space. In between master classes, participants will have the opportunity to immediately apply what they've learned through the creation of their film. During these individual workshop sessions, participants can sign up for one on one consultations with Heidi Duckler to discuss their individual projects.This workshop is perfect for architects and students looking to expand their awareness of the relationship between the body and space, as well as different strategies for placing architecture on film. 

We choose to view the virtual space as an opportunity to explore and challenge previous notions of the body and space. We find movement to be the momentum of architecture, and are seeking to investigate the ways in which different creative disciplines characterize space. 

Join us for the chance to create your own spatial map for movement, architecture, and production in the virtual space!

No previous experience or equipment needed. For more information about scholarships or questions, please email [email protected].

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Though we live in a time where sophisticated technologies are part of daily life, we have noticed a nostalgia and trend towards using Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm film.

Even though these analog methods can be more tedious, expensive and limiting, artists are still drawn to these precursors of the digital camera. We are seeing more experimentation by going into the past and combining methods from across decades.

In this episode we highlight dancefilms that these old technologies and with new perspectives in a way that is free of gimmicks and full of noteworthy awesomeness.

We also discuss challenges and perks to these methods and, of course, how good ideas and creativity s dance with tech rather than rely entirely on it.

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FEATURED 

House of Joy

Dir. by Robert Uehlin

Mend (2019)

Dir. by Jackson Kroopf and Chris Emile

Escape (2020)

Dir. by Heidi Duckler Dance Theater & Felipe Diaz Galarce

Other Mentions

Oregon Dancefilm Commission

Bombshell: The Hedy Lemarr Story

Frameform Season 1 Episode 3 interview with Talia Shea Levin

Frameform Season 1 Episode 4 Interview with Eric Cheung

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CHAPTERS

1:00 Intro

5:00 Responding to our hyperdigitized relationship with technology
12:20 House of Joy

22:30 Mend
28:58 Escape
33:28 The benefit and magic of recording

36:58 Our favorite older tech

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ANNOUNCEMENT

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These days, it is very common for most people to own some kind of smart device. Whether that be an iPhone, Android, iPad, or tablet, these handheld gadgets have become a reliant tool in our everyday life. And in this day and age, these pocket devices are one of the most utilitarian devices in a filmmaker’s arsenal.

From 4K camera quality, smartphone supported accessories, to the countless number of film and photography applications found in app stores, all are available to assist your one-person crew.

In today’s episode, we invite Mobile Dance Film Festival’s organizer, ANDREW CHAPMAN into the conversation, talking about the value of mobile dance filmmaking, how it is culturally relevant, and the accessibility in exploration for all aspiring dance filmmakers.

Follow Mobile Dance Film Festival! @mobiledancefilmfestival

Mobile Dance Film Festival website

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FILMS

Nicole Walcott in Washington Square Park (2017)

Dir. by Rami Shafi

A Guide to Breathing Underwater (2018)

Dir. by Raven Jackson (she/her)

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CHAPTERS

01:00 - Intro

06:40 - What are the advantages of smartphone filmmaking?

12:30 - Nicole Walcott in Washington Square Park

23:15 - A Guide to Breathing Underwater

28:28 - Legitimacy between smartphones and fancy cameras debate

42:43 - Shifting the lens

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SUBMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT

Mobile Dance Film Festival

Final Submission Deadline - Monday, May 31st, 2021

Do you have an event you’d like to share on the show? 

Submit your event announcement here by June 30.

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Frameform is back and diving back into talking movies, moving and everything in between. Of all locations seen in screendance films, none may be more ubiquitous than the warehouse.

Search for the term “dance film” online, and you will reliably get quite a few films set in warehouse spaces. The qualities and histories of these spaces - old factory equipment, peeling walls and dusty air- can either enhance or diminish a work depending on how thoughtfully or not they are incorporated.

The Frameform team dissects the attraction of dance filmmakers to warehouse space and analyzes how efficacy (or not) of their use among several films.

In honor of Simon Fildes, here are links to several films:

There is a Place 

Coire Ruadh

Six Solos

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FILMS

Letter (2017) 

Dir. by Zeljko Bozic (@zeljko_bozic)

Mass (2010) 

Dir. by Fu Le (@cie.tetrapode)

Medicine (2016)

Dir. by Charles Baldassarra

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CHAPTERS

01:54 - Welcome and Welcome Back!

03:15 - Let’s talk about Warehouse dancefilms

05:19 - Letter

14:27 - MASS
25:04 - Medicine

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LINKS

Media and the No-Place of Dance by Harmony Bench

Headphones On-Frameform

Footloose Dance Scene

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

OPEN CALL!

Do you have an event you’d like to share on the show? 
Submit your event announcement here by June 30.

Be sure to check our Instagram today til Friday, May 14th to vote which location you want us to talk about next on the show!

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Frameform is back with another season of jam-packed discussions around the intersecting topics of dance and film! And this year, we are going even deeper.

Exploring topics such as landscapes, animation, advertising, and so much more. We’ll have special guests join us on various conversations, as well as sitting one on one with artists and major contributors in the dance film community.

Mark your calendars, Frameform Season 2 will be releasing Wednesday, May 12th!

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While the events of 2020 appeared to initially stop the world in its tracks, the year also proved to be a catalyst for creativity and connection and sowed the seeds for unique ventures, like this podcast.

In this episode, the Frameform team reflects on this unique year and discusses how it laid the groundwork for a screendance renaissance and reinforced connections amongst dance film nerds around the world.

We also share some of hopes and dreams for Season 2, and invite our audience to share theirs as well!

Have a suggestion for Season 2? Pitch it to [email protected].

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As we look back on a very strange year, the Frameform team takes a moment to review and gush over some dance films favorites that have been keeping us company.

Email us: [email protected]

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Hannah’s Picks

HAIM - I Know Alone

Directed by Jake Schreier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZSgr_si4I

The Man Who Traveled Nowhere in Time

Directed by Vincent René-Lortie

https://vimeo.com/322899476

Drop Out Bodies

Directed by Ludivine Large-Bessette

https://vimeo.com/251646916

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Jen’s Picks

Project Home

Directed by Andrew Ellis, Ben Stamper, Chris Martin, Jonathan Seale, Larkin Poynton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYfNOkgAbo&t=1284s

https://projecthomedance.com

Spike Jonze Welcome Home

Directed by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6Hpal8fUA

Uprooted

Directed by

https://vimeo.com/430324214

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Clare’s Picks

Drop Out Bodies

Mass

Directed by Fu Le

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irNT39wK53c

Well Contested Sites

Directed by Amie Dowling and Austin Forbord

https://vimeo.com/345535634

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If we really crunch the numbers, there is a surprising amount of dance in movies.

Musicals would be the quintessential medium of all dance, song, and acting, but today we decided to focus on the films that inject a single dance scene. In some films, it is almost hard to forget the iconic dance scene, and in other cases, the scene is the main event or a major turning point of the film.

In today’s episode we have friend, scholar, and dance movie enthusiast NATHAN SCOLL, talking about our love for dance scenes in movies and what the dances are doing as an integral moment in the film.

NATHAN SCOLL is a film scholar/practitioner/instructor who emphasizes cinematic genre, narrative, and aesthetics. He has just completed his doctoral dissertation entitled "Dance Movies: From The Red Shoes to Black Swan and Beyond" which he hopes will see publication as the first book on dance movies.

Follow Nathan on IG

@thriftopia_nathanscoll

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The Big Lebowski | Gutterballs (1998)

Dir. Ethan + Joel Coen

Chor. Bill and Jacqui Landrum

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)

Dir. David Mirkin

Chor. Smith Wordes

Burning (2018)

Dir. Lee Chang-dong

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Quiet on set!!

Sound is a key part of shaping our relationship to space, even with your eyes closed, you can still orient yourself by the way sounds are emanating from it. It goes without saying that sound is a key component of dance performance.

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Momentum (2013)

Dir. Boris Seewald

Feat. PATRICK HANNA and SHOKO ITO

Music: Ralf Hildenbeutel

Sound Mix: Magdalena Lepp 

Warehouse Samba (2015)

Directed and Composed by Gabriel Shalom 

Audio Mastering-Thomas Von Pescatore

Sound Recorded with Shure MOTIV MV88-phone mic

Behind the Scenes

InSoundOut (2012)

Director: Patrick Jurányi (your-on-yi)

Music:Nandor Weisz

Dancer:Xénia Imely

Honorable Mentions:
Cracks - Alex Pachón
Drum Machine - Željko Božić

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

2020 Vision in Conversation: Technology in Dance

December 17th (3 PM GMT/ 10 AM EST/ 7 AM PST)

Online

Raah Conversations: Episode 3

December 19th (1:30 PM IST) 

Online

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