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Published 2012-11-04
Written & directed: [email protected] / www.instagram.com/before.the.wire
Music rights please contact Simon Marcheterre: [email protected]
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The first in a trilogy (check out the sequel, "Brief Candle", at • Brief Candle ) of screendance films about our tug-of-war with wilderness. Here we explore a building's decay. The choreography and original score are both in decrescendo to illustrate the building's retreat from the physical world, and Nature's advance on it.
Awarded Best Dance Film at the 2012 Fastnet Short Film Festival, and nominated for Best of Festival and Best Original Music.
Official Selection:
- Dance Camera West 2012
- FIVC 2.0 (+ Tour selection)
- Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
- Festival de Film de Lanaudiere
- NSI Short Film Festival
- Oklahoma Dance Film Festival
- Exground Filmfest
- Pop-up Film Festival
- Dance on Camera Festival 2013 (+ Tour selection)
- VI São Carlos Videodance Festival
- Dance Camera Istanbul
- Dance Camera Festival 2013 (+ Tour selection)
- Cinedans 2013
- FIFA 2013
- Agite y Sirva 2013
- Dance Moments 2013
- Tiny Dance Film Festival 2013
- Athens Video Dance Project 2014
- Dancing Bravo! MOCA Video, Taiwan, 2014
- Intervening Domain: International Dance Video Exhibition, Taiwan, 2014
- InShadow - International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies 2015
Directed and Created by Duncan McDowall - www.duncanmcdowall.com/
Choreographed and Performed by Dorotea Saykaly - vimeo.com/78367697
Cinematography by Christophe Collette
Original Score by Simon Marcheterre
Costume Design by Carla Romagnoli (carlaromagnoli.com/)
Edited by Sebastien Delporte
Produced by Sach Baylin-Stern
Produced with a grant awarded by BravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) - a division of Bell Media Inc. - www.bravofact.com
All Comments (21)
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Imagine if you're walking in the wilderness and find an abandoned building and when you look through a window you see this woman in black just dancing by herself. I would tip toe the hell out of there.
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This is the proof that dance can be everything, as long as there is real emotion behind it. It's really, really amazing
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How the trees are crowded at the dusty windows to watch this beautiful human communicating with art in dance.
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She is SO good. Just completely evocative in her expression. Creepy yet compelling. Liminal. Well done.
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she is interpreting feeling of a bird in a prison......nice choreography....
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I did not realize this was about urban decay and how nature takes over afterward. I thought it was about some kind of emotional pain, especially when the pieces of paint fall on her. She looks like she's given up at the end. Beautiful!
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perfect blend of art-dance, light, music, and crow
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I relate to that scratching and circling in dust. Anxious,forgetting what you're doing, starting something else ,then remembering that you're doing something else. Circles and circles and not getting anywhere
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This is what anxiety feels like.
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The relationship between the dancer and the environment was perfect.
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The choreography is so amazing, because the only details they gave is the title and still we understand the dance and it's story. So talented.
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Lovely. There's an eerie beauty to this, between the dilapidation of the building, and the unearthliness of the choreography. I'm so glad I saw this!
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I am not really into contemporary dance, but that was beautiful, easy to understand between the dance and music. Dorothea is amazing!! Hope I spelled her name right.
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3:40 is me when I have to wake up early and go to school.
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This video is absolutely stunning, she conveyed the message well in her dance.
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All composition is perfect: choreography, music, the place, light! Amazing work! Thanks for this beautiful gift! The world need art!
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Her control gives me chills, I could feel it. It is so powerful! Amazing job done by everyone.. Please keep them coming.
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This was incredible, strange, breathtaking, thought provoking, weird, raw, and just downright awesome.
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Beautiful music, dance, imagery. This is absolute ART.
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The song is perfect, the choreography is perfect, the whole thing is just perfect
