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Program 14:
Choreography: Music Video
Futureshock
“Late at Night”
(3.5min, 2003, Japan/UK)
Director: Ne-O
We encounter the twilight zone of nightshift workers, security
guards, and bizarre late-night people, who all seem to have
contracted some crazy body-popping dance.- NE-O
NE-O (started in 2002 by Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka) uses
a new format of motion-image for commercials, music videos and
short films blending live-action, animation and graphics. Their
work often focuses on dark humor and spatial-temporal visual
tricks. NE-O’s commercial credits include: Sony Ericsson,
Diesel, Radio1 and the most popular award-winning VW Golf ad
‘Singing in the Rain’ features Gene Kelly breakdancing.
Chemical
Brothers “Galvanize” (4min,
2004, UK)
Director: Adam Smith
Choreographer: Aakomon Jones
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by Adam Smith |
Adam Smith recasts a timeless tale of rebellion in clown makeup.
A trio of young dance enthusiasts creeps past sleeping parents
and out onto the dance floor for an aggression-laced krumping
session. - RESFEST
Unkle
“Rabbit in Your Headlights”
(5min, 1988, UK)
Director: Jonathan Glazer
The cars are choreographed to continuously kill the man in the
underpass. Chilling!
Jonathan Glazer is a music video and commercial icon whose extraordinary
work reveals his gift for intense visual ambition. His commercials
for the likes of Stella Artois, Guinness, Levis, Barclays Bank
and Volkswagen have turned adverts into high art perhaps best
reflected in his Guinness ad Surfer-included on his DVD in a new
extended version-being recently voted best ad of all time by the
British Public. His music videos which include UNKLE, Radiohead,
Jamiroquai, Blur and Massive Attack have further showcased his
ability to contort reality into baffling and ingenious new perspectives.
Björk
“It's Oh So Quiet” (3.5min,
1995, USA)
Director: Spike Jonze
“It's
Oh So Quiet” : Inspired by Busby Berkeley song-and-dance
numbers and “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” by Jacques
Demy, this clip is a joyous homage to Hollywood's Technicolor
musicals. – Slant Magazine
Known to Russian audiences by the black comedy “Being
John Malkovich” (1999) and the film “Adaptation”,
Spike Jonze
is an Academy-Award nominated director but also a true film
choreographer whose choreographic genius manifests in numerous
music and skate videos that he has been creating since 1992.
“Montovedioaki”
(5min, 2005, Spain/Japan/Uruguay)
Director: Octavio Iturbe
Choreograher:
Hiroaki Umeda
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photo
by Octavio Iturbe |
Filmed
against cityline of Montevideo (Uruguay), Umeda’s fluid
movements clash with urban landscape. The piece is based on Umeda’s
solo for the stage "While Going To a Condition". Octavio
Iturbe, a Spain-based director and editor, is particularly known
to the world audiences by his collaboration with a Belgian choreographer
Wim Vandekeybus on the film “Roseland”.
Chemical
Brothers “The Boxer” (3.5min,
2005, UK)
Director: Ne-O
“The
Boxer”: Basketball goes wild to the music of the Chemical
Brothers in Budapest. – NE-O
NE-O (see above)
Carpark
North “Human” (2.5min,
2005, Denmark)
Director: Martin de Thurah
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by Octavio Iturbe |
Gorgeously photographed, this video depicts the poignant emotions
of the pre-pubescent. Styled beyond their years and alternately
dancing and performing more impossible moves, a group of children
convey both fragility and strength. – RESFEST
Martin de Thurah’s work includes painting, animation, art
design, photography as well as film and video making. He has received
many awards for both his art design, visual effect design, music
videos from such competitions as Danish Music Awards, MTV Awards
and others. He explores new media formats such as interactive
CD-roms and installations.
Chemical
Brothers “Get Yourself High”
(5min, 2003, USA)
Director: Joseph Khan, featuring
K-OS
An old kung-fu flick is masterfully re-choreographed into a
rap dance.
Throughout his career, entirely self-taught, Joseph Khan, a
Korean American filmmaker, traveled from skateboarding and hip
hop videos to MTV award-winning clips and feature films. In
music video world, he has worked with diverse artists such as:
U2, The Chemical Brothers. George Michael and many more.
Wax
“California” (3min,
1995, USA)
Director: Spike Jonze
A mesmerizing long take observes
a man running on fire through a city street.
Spike Jonze (see above).
“Exile”
(3.5min, 2003, Mexico)
Director: Mariana Arteaga
A Mexican choreographer turned into filmmaker, Mariana Arteaga
explores the relationship of the body and the environment. A woman
alone on a chair, moved by the wind and a surprise visitor.
El
Presedente “100mph” (3.5min,
2005, UK)
Director: Rupert Jones
The
filmmaker splits the screen into multiple parts, fills each
part with shots of the musicians playing different instruments
and choreographs a multi-screen dance.
Trained as a visual artist in Scotland, Rupert Jones is also
a composer, writer and film director. His work spans from soap
operas and children TV series to feature films and music videos.
His music video credits include bands as various as The Streets,
Charlotte Church, Starsailor, Gomez, Sophie Ellis Bextor and
others.
Chemical
Brothers “Let Forever Be”
(3.45min, 2005, USA)
Director: Michel Gondry
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by Michel Gondry |
A
dream sequence of a young woman turns into a digital Busby Berkley
homage morphing seven identical dancers among each other and with
environments they encounter.
Among inspiring works of the French film artist Michel Gondry
are award-winning short films, music videos, commercials, two
features... The style of his videos caught the attention of music
artist Bjork, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human
Behavior". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry
directing a total of six music videos for Bjork. Other artists
who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include
The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers and Beck. Gondry has
also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the
"bullet time” techniques used in “The Matrix”,
notably in his "Like A Rolling Stone" video for the
Rolling Stones and a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well
as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed commercials for
the Gap.
The
Pharcyde “Drop” (3.5min,
1996, USA)
Director: Spike Jonze
“Drop”:
Another divergence from established video formula, Jonze wisely
avoided the clichés that at this point were endemic in
hip-hop visuals. Instead, the group performed the video’s
actions entirely in reverse, even saying the lyrics backwards
so when the video was played forward, they and their mouths
move forward while their surroundings move in reverse. - RESFEST
Spike Jonze (see above).
Bjork
“All is full of love” (5min,
2000, UK)
Director:
Chris Cunningham
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by Chris Cunningham |
“All
is Full of Love”: two Björk looking robots perform
anelegant and delicate dance of love. Each robot was designed
by Cunningham, faces reminiscent of Björk's features. Best
Short Form Music Video 2000 – Grammy Award.
Leftfield
“Africa Shox” (4.5min, 1999, UK)
Director:
Chris Cunningham
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by Chris Cunningham |
“Africa
Shox”: The opening shot is set against one of the former
World Trade Center towers in New York as if hiding in the fog
in the background. Afrika Bambaataa chanting "The world is
on fire / It'll take you higher." An African man runs through
the city streets loosing parts of his body. A sense of true apocalypse.
Disturbing!
Squarepusher
“Come on My Selector” (7.5min,
1998, UK)
Director:
Chris Cunningham
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by Chris Cunningham |
“Come
on My Selector”: Tightly and brilliantly edited by Cunningham
himself, this piece choreographs a story of a girl, a dog and
two guards in the rooms and hallways of the Japanese mental hospital.
Best video of the year 1998-1999.
Chris
Cunningham's directorial
work is well known in the worlds of music video, commercial,
and video art. He first achieved notoriety in 1997 with the
horrific and comic clip for Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin. After
finishing 19 music videos that brought the artist numerous Grammy,
MTV and other awards, Chris Cunningham turned to making short
films. His most recent film “Rubber Johnny” came
out in 2005.
Yuki
“Sentimental Journey”
(6min, 2003, Japan)
Director: Nagi Noda
In
the spirit of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), a brilliant
and eccentric photographer, gained worldwide fame photographing
animal and human movement imperceptible to the human eye, this
music video is a stop-motion piece that choreographs freeze-frames
in motion of 100 YUKI-looking people.
Born in Tokyo in 1973, Nagi Noda is an award-winning film/music
videos/commercials director and art designer. She won an award
at the Annual International Design Competition (in Tokyo) for
“Sentimental Journey” in 2003. Her major past projects
include NIKE, Laforet Harajuku, and YUKI's music videos such as
"Stand Up! Sister" and "A Humming Bird".
“Theatre of Speed vs BOZ’n’HOK”
(3.5min, 2004, Australia)
Director: Rhian Hinkley Choreographer:
Back To Back Theatre
A true collaboration of seven choreographers, three sound designers,
one support worker, one costume designer, one inflatable set
builder, one admin and the team of 16 performers, this music
video set out to put a new take on the music video genre. Elements
of booty, bling, kung fu, air guitar and almost every dance
form known – all went into the mix.
Back To Back Theatre is a pioneering contemporary theatre company
based in Geelong,Australia with a full-time ensemble of five
actors considered to have an intellectual disability. Formed
in 1987, Back to Back has created over 27 original works for
theatre and eight short films. By producing world-class theatre
for national and international audiences, the company acts as
a high profile advocate for people with disabilities.
Phoenix
Foundation “Hitchcock”
(3.5min, 2005, New Zealand)
Director: Reuben Sutherland
Electric
cars may be the future, but certain shadowy organizations would
prefer to keep gas guzzlers on the road. The two modes of transportation
go head to head in a choreographed piece of calculated road
rage. – RESFEST
Besides the award-winning music videos, Reuben Sutherland is
also a founder member of EBB, a 3-piece dance act from Wellington
(New Zealand) renowned for their extravagant live shows –
a multi-sensory experience, incorporating self made video material,
stage sets and sounds.
Opening
Program Installation
Program
1 Program
2-3 Program
4-5 Program
6 Program
7 Program
8 Program
9 Program
10 Program
11 Program
12 Program
13 Program
14 Closing
Ceremony
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