Alexandra Hall: The D Word
Fri 18 September 2015
Alexandra Hall
In conjunction with her Masters Degree Show at The Glasgow School of Art, first time filmmaker Alexandra Hall joins together with established filmmakers Janice Parker, Simon Fildes, Daniel Warren and Jeannette Ginslov to present The D Word, a screening of highly imaginative and diverse dance films. The screening and following panel discussion will explore the filmmakers' varying creative processes and how they use dance in their professional practice.
The following films will be screened: Janice Parker’s “It’s Like…” and “You Said You Liked Dancing”, Simon Fildes’ and Katrina McPherson’s ‘There is a Place’ and ‘The Time it Takes’, Daniel Warren’s ‘Marionettes’, ‘Extract from Mercury’, ‘Extract from The Darktown Cakewalk’, ‘The Work Room / Diane Torr - Two Banana Dance’ and ‘The Hazey Janes - If Ever There Is Gladness’, Alexandra Hall’s ‘The Fall’ and ‘The Red Coat’ and Jeannette Ginslov’s 'Screendance & AR Interaction: P(AR)ticipate'.
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Janice Parker is a dance-maker who works with people and different art-forms to create live performance, installation and on occasion, dance film. She works in collaboration with a diverse range of people, places and contexts, both locally and internationally. Her company Janice Parker Projects aims to create new and experimental dance forms, act as a resource and an advocate for artists, organizations and audiences, and to keep asking the question: who can dance, and what can dance be?
Janice has worked in the past with film-makers Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson and most recently with Glasgow based Martin Clark. Her films are influenced and in part created by the people who are in them. They respond to a particular context and politic and she understands them as a form of intervention.
Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson are recognized in Scotland and internationally as leading artists in the field of video dance. Both separately and as a team, Katrina and Simon have considerable experience in the artistic, commercial and broadcast arenas.
Simon's wide ranging technical and creative skills have enabled him to work in technical support, new media, project management and commercial editing and he is a much sought-after editor of video-dance and arts documentary films. He has given public talks on his and Katrina’s work from Aberdeen to Buenos Aires, Den Haag to Sydney, Beijing to Brighton.
http://www.go-at.co.uk/Goat.html
As a filmmaker and director over the last 16 years, Daniel Warren has collaborated with artists, musicians, choreographers, poets and theatre makers. He has frequently deployed observational forms in order to interrogate, for example, the materiality and psychology of dance, sport and everyday life.
Daniel’s work has been screened by the BBC, Channel 4, Frieze Film, British Council and at film festivals in Cannes, Naples, Istanbul, Budapest, Zurich and Edinburgh. His most recent directing work was for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony and is currently the filmmaker on Hanna Tuulikki’s ambitious Air falbh leis na h-eòin | Away with the birds project set on the island of Canna.
Jeannette Ginslov is a Danish/South African media artist and researcher for dance on film: AR, Screen & Internet. MSc in Media Arts & Imaging DJCAD, MA in Choreography Rhodes University and lecturer at The Sapce Dundee College. Her screendance works have been screened on BBC Big Screens, Danish and British Film Institutes, Lincoln Centre and Red Cat Theatre. She is Director of Screendance Africa (Pty) Ltd and associate producer of www.dance-tech.net. Her (AR) Augmented Reality collaborations explore affect, a-fixity and somatic archiving: AffeXity and DansAR 01& 02 and P(AR)take.
P(AR)ticipate: body of experience/body of work/body as archive, her latest AR and Screendance work investigates live performance, somatic archiving and memory. The viewer participates in Ginslov's personal memories of living in an apartheid and democratic South Africa, exploring the notion of otherness. It investigates how Augmented Reality and interaction design may be used to trigger, perform and archive somatic memory across bodies and networked mobile devices.
http://jeannetteginslov.weebly.com
A recent masters graduate from The Glasgow School of Art, Alexandra Hall’s experimental narrative dance short films are cold, harsh and brutal portraits of relationships. Through a distinctive collaborative process with dancers and choreographers, she develops highly contrived worlds, which explore a multitude of themes including emotional realism, femininity and sexuality.
