CIRCUS & FILM

Several people in red suits interact in a kaleidoscopic room with wood and white walls.
  • Duration: ca. 30 min
  • Location: Cinema
  • Notice: Introduction in English
  • Tickets: Free entry

This short film programme is dedicated to experimental circus forms in the medium of film. Using various visual narratives, it explores new film techniques and aesthetics. The six international short films were selected from 200 submissions and deal with floating at lofty heights, relationships to one's own body and the visual focused perception of spaces. As a special treat, a prefilm-series with the top 5 of the ‘60-secondscircusfilm-Competion’ awaits you! The evening is a co-operation with the Moovy Dance Film Festival Cologne, Dynamo Workspace and OFF - Odense International Film Festival.

International short film night

Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel and Philip Rabalais (DE/US)

Purgatorio

You can't win a game you don't know how to play, but you also can’t lose. A Haunting universe of gym-like rooms opens and keeps unfolding, while the dance and game begins. Purgatorio is a site-specific dance film and an experimental fusion of choreography, cinematography and sound.

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Antti Suniala (FI)

Walls Beneath Our Feet

This circus short film explores urban life and space from unexpected angles and is inspired by the Pasila Street Art District in Helsinki. Impressive images and the free body language of the artists of the Race Horse Company bear witness to current debates and are a call for a better future.

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Fu Le (PT)

Ode Maritima

The poem “Naval Ode” by Fernando Pessoa is embodied by a mysterious and suspended dance, imbued with nostalgic desire, which swells like a sail. It captures the movement of separation between the dock and the ship, and thus the distance - between the inside and the outside, between the other and myself.

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Elaine Briant, Joana Martinho (FR/LU)

NOON

NOON shows a very specifically worked handstand technique in a duo with block manipulation. Two similar-looking handstand artists explore the relationship with their blocks in a playful atmosphere. The visual aesthetic is inspired by geometric shapes, shadows, light and natural materials such as wood, skin and stone.

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Danila Bim (US/BR)

Unboxing

In Unboxing the only way out is turning to the inside. A woman finds herself on a surreal journey of self-discovery. Suspended by her hair, she utilizes poetic and acrobatic movement to delve into concepts of individuation. It reflects the inner walls of the mind and the search to break free.

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Maja Zimmerlin, Thomas Delord (CH/DE)

ANASA

Is this an earthquake inside or outside? This film is about the connection with matter and its dissolution into earth, stone, sand and sea. Dry flowers push themselves out of the sand and the bodies are full. Finally, there is only floating. Inside and outside.

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