Mar 17 2010

Body cinema: Footwork by Ivana Kalc

For short dance film  ‘Footwork’ or ‘Down Under’ dancer and choreographer Ivana Kalc was awarded back in 2006 at Debutnale Festival in Linz… and what is also great in her story is the fact that she was involved as performer in Kobakant’s project Perfect Human premiered in 2008 during Ars Electronica…

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Still photos from video dance Footwork by Ivana Kalc (c)

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Mar 14 2010

Pocket cinema: Symphony by Eric Oh

Erick Oh is an award winning animation artist based in Los Angeles whose films have been regularly screened at festivals such as Annecy Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH, Anima Mundi, Ars Electronica, LACMA Director’s Night… For Symphony he has received tones awards during 2009 and 2010.

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Mar 9 2010

Dr. NakaMats rockz!

I’m not counting anymore how many films I watch during festivals, especially because I like them both, long and short films. Now, when ZagrebDox is behind me, I can start with my fresh documentary coverage for this season…

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Mar 8 2010

Pocket cinema: En Tus Brazos

A short 3D film about Tango and a passionate couple of dancers entitled En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms), directed by François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour in Spanish-French coo-production to warm our frozen limbs as well as for speeding up blood in our veins in this marble cold evening…

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Feb 28 2010

Pocket cinema: The Children of Darfur by Camilla Nielsson

This week I’m going to be mostly concentrated on watching great documentary films at the festival ZagrebDox… Thus, this post is strongly connected with its programme… Camilla Nielsson will present within the programme her latest film ‘Cities on Speed – Mumbai Disconnected‘… and as an intro to moviecholic atmosphere here is her award winning documentary from 2007 ‘The Children of Darfur’…

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Photo above: Excerpt from the film The Children of Darfur
Photo bellow: Georgina Cranston (c) taken from UNICEF

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