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Workshop Showing:
«Cinema Moves»Dance and Film - The Art of Rhythm
The participants of the Wokshop show their film, which is produced under the direction of Sascha Engel.

Sascha Engel & cinedans Dance on Screen the «Videodance Night»
Dancevideos from Middle East:
«Crazy Water Can»
Director: DOP & Editing: Vania Heymann / Year of Production: 2011/ Shot: Israel / Original Format: 16:9 NTC HDV / Length: 2 min
«Crazy Water Can» gives us a look on the religions of the world from an alien point of view, by replacing all symbols with a watering can.

«As I was leaving my City»
Director: Amirali Navaee / Photography: Abtin Mozafari / Dancer: Mehdi Saki / Year of Production: 2007 / Shot: Iran / Original Format: PAL Interlaced, 16:9 / Length: 3 min
Amirali Navaee: “I am 24 and live in Teheran. I was a dancer, but changed direction to film because of the political situation there. The film is about a man who leaves his beloved city. The film is dedicated to my brothers, who cherrish never-ending hope.”

«Dancing in Beirut»
Director, Photography & Editing: Ruben Gischler / Year of Production: 2007 / Shot: The Netherlands, Lebanon / Original Format: PAL Interlaced, 16:9 / Length: 20 min
«Dancing in Beirut» is the making of ‘Concerto 13/2nd Movement’ by the Lebanese choreographer Omar Rajeh. In Beirut, five floors underground, Omar Rajeh, two Dutch male dancers, two Lebanese female dancers and one Lebanese actor make an intense dance performance about the body and Beirut, which is a wild but extremely divided city.

«Solo Siento»
Director, Photography & Editing: Shira Miasnik / Choreography: Arkadi Zaides /
Year of Production: 2007 / Shot: Israel / Original Format: PAL Interlaced, 16:9 / Length: 5 min
“Cette brume insensée où s'agitent des ombres, comment pourrais-je l'éclaircir?” Raymound Queneau

«Cigarette»
from & with: Khalid Benghrib & Loren Palmer /
Editing: Jean La fontaine - Khalid Benghrib & Loren Palmer / Year of Production: 2008 / Shot: Morocco / Original Format: 4:3 Interlaced PAL / Length: 2,5 min
The choreographic form proposed explores the complex and paradoxical relationship between composition and improvisation,between what is fixed and what is intangible.Our belief persists in this position of determining truth of our men and women of today that is emerging in creating connected to a personal, social, cultural or political.

«4KiDo» (Part 1)
By: Reut Shemesh & Or Hakim / Choreography: Reut Shemesh & Or Hakim / DOP: Edan Sasson / Editing: Idan Sasson / Year of Productin: 2010 / Shot: The Netherlands / Original Format: DV-Pal Progressive Cast: Reut Shemesh, Or Hakim, Kenzo Kusuda, Sylvain Meret / Length: 3,5 min
«4KiDo» questions the kinds of touch in social frame on few aspects. Four people are trapped in a white room; the room contains a single number of furniture. The Room is used as an amusement park for the four. They are playing, checking, shaking, pushing, touching, experiencing, causing pain and pleasure to the other bodies. They control and controlled by the others. Trying and experiencing with the help of the other bodies, invading the body of another, abandoning themselves to the other. They are lost between the will to be used and the will to use the other. They are taking an active part in the sexual experiment. Abuse and romance become blurred. Never the lees, they are looking for boundaries and intimacy. Just like in our daily life, when all borders are losing their value and sex is no longer has nothing to do with intimacy and love.

«TEMPUS FUGIT»
Director: Anais & Olivier Spiro / Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Les Ballets C. de la B. / Photography & Editing: Anais & Olivier Spiro / Year of Production: 2005 / Shot: Morocco / Original Format: 16:9 / Length: 26 min
The film is set in Marrakech’s magnificent palm grove. A woman is at the centre of gravity, at its epicentre. The film’s heroine - pursued by an invisible presence - meets a prince. The prince falls madly in love with her, but she leaves him for another. Soon however, her past catches up with her ... The inspiration for «TEMPUS FUGIT» lies without a doubt in the popular cinema of India with its great melodramas that blend dance, song, music and enchantment. Their complexity stems often - just as in Tempus Fugit - from the confrontation between tradition and modernity.

«4KiDo» (Part 2)
see part 1 / Length: 2 min 50 sec

«Dance from Iraq»
Director: Hayder Helo / Year of Production: 2006 / Shot: Iraq / Length: 2,5 min
A short interview with the Iraqi dancer and choreographer Muhaned Rasheed.

«Persephone»
Director: Nini Moshe / Choreography: Yaniv Abraham / DOP: Nini Moshe / Editing: Amit Ginton / Year of Production: 2009 / Shot: Israel / Original Format: 16:9 PAL HDV / Cast: Raichel Osborn / Length: 2,5 min
Persephone was kidnapped from earth to the underworld by Hades the king of the underworld. Persephone story is a myth took from the Greek mythology. I've decided to show Persephone after the kidnap, till she becomes the queen of the underworld, using fragments from the ancient story.

«My Atomic Beloved»
Director & Editor: Amirali Navaee / Photography: Ruhollah Ansari / Cast: Laleh Alavi, Mohammad Abbasi & Parisa / Music & Sound Design: Javad Safari / Year of Production: 2008 / Shot: Iran / Original Format: PAL Interlaced, 16:9 / Length: 18 min
Twelve hours before an atomic bomb hits the ground of Teheran, a boy rushes through the house of a girl while remembering their moment together.

«4KiDo» (Part 3)
see part 1 / Length: 2 min 40 sec

«I am my mother»
Director, choreography & dance: Mohammad Abbasi / Photography: Amin Reza Bagheri / Editing: Nima Kafil Davani / Year of Production: 2008 / Shot: Iran / Original Format: 4:3 PAL / Length: 1 min
“My mother has never danced in her life, I always think how can I make my mother move. If I could go into my mother’s body, I would dance and my mother would dance as well. It is like a duet, me and my mother.”

«West Bank Story»
Director: Ari Sandel / Photography: Gavin Kelly / Editing: Avi Youabian / Choreography: Roman del Barrio / Music: Youval Ron / Year of Production: 2006 / Shot: USA / Original Format: PAL Interlaced, 16:9 / Length: 20 min
A musical comedy set in the fast‐paced, fast‐food world of competing falafel stands on the West Bank. David, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with the beautiful Palestinian cashier, Fatima; a forbidden love. Can the couple’s love withstand a 2000‐year‐old conflict? «West Bank Story» won an Oscar for Best Short Film in 2007.

«DAY» (Loop im Foyer)
Director: Osi Wald / Choreography & Dance: Efrat Rubin / Photography, Editing & Animation: Asenath (Osi) Wald / Music & Sound effects: Jonathan Albalak / Costume: Noa Sadeh / Year of Production: 2009 / Shot: Israel / Original Format: PAL Progressive, 4:3 / Length: 11,5 min
An animated video dance, inspired by the book "A Man Asleep", by George Perec, which describes a person who abruptly cuts with everyday life, does away with their old daily routine and spends their days in solitude, mostly sleeping and wandering in the city. The video was created as part of a performance combining animation and dance on stage.

With spezial thanks to Gary Feingold & Dancing on the Edge Festival
Dancing on the Edge established in 2006 and based in Amsterdam, presents and promotes contemporary Middle Eastern arts and culture with a focus on the performing arts, film, and multimedia-installations.