Zinetika is a multidisciplinary festival that explores the relationships between dance and audio-visual arts, body and technology, creating together in search of different artistic experiences. The Festival hosts proposals of videodance, performance, masterclasses and workshops around this theme. All this makes Zinetika a platform for cultural experiences shared by organisations and creators from different artistic fields and origins, both local and international.
OPEN SCREEN
Nine Rooms, Laia Santanach, Ignasi Castañé. 4 min. 45 sec. 2019. Spain
9 characters occupy the same space. Everyday coexistence and its difficulties can become something in a different way.
Carriage Return, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Daz Disley. 1 min. 2017. UK
Single shot where the camera follows the dancer while the dancer follows the camera and both draw circles around the table of memories. The old gramophone and its repetitive rhythm create another cyclical movement. Does such a thing as a straight line exist?
But First, Erin Brown Thomas. 5 min. 22 sec. 2018. USA
It’s time to put your head on straight. A dance film made as part of San Francisco Dance Film Festival's annual Co-Laboratory program in collaboration with the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron's Dancing Laboratories. A filmmaker and choreographer are paired together for one week to make a short dance film.
AMORFOS, Nadine Holguín. 9 min. 2018. Colombia
AMORFOS refers to urban bodies created from widely divergent ethnicities. Feelings generated by the city, dizzying journeys, traces of unexpected meetings that are transformed into dance and exempt us from succumbing.
Wild-er-ness. Ana Baer, Heike Salzer. 6 min. 23 sec. 2019. UK
Inspired by the lushness of the North Yorkshire Moors, WECreate Productions embarks on a new exploration of space. “Wild-er-ness” is a blend of site specific material intimately woven into a screendance.
Waves, Vojtech Domlatil. 3min. 2017. Czech Republic
OFICIAL SELECTION
El infierno de los amantes crueles, Alejo Levis. 4 minutos. 2019. Spain
"El infierno de los amantes crueles” is the story of one of the protagonists of the Decameron, Nastagio degli Onesti, specifically how Boticelli represented the story in his four famous tables. It describes the amorous vicissitudes of Nastagio degli Onesti, a young man from Ravenna whose love is not returned by his beloved.
Salt Water, Abe Abraham. 5 min. 45 sec. 2018, USA
Salt Water explores the contrast between the force of natural events and our need and desire for stability.
Cultes, (LA)HORDE, Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel. 15 min. 32 sec. 2019 France
This film captures the concrete manifestation of worship that is translated into ritualized practices and performances, a mass jubilation and a consumerist mass. It brings up questions: can we still live a spiritual experience in these new consumerist sanctuaries? Do spectators succeed in creating their own subversive experience as so many individuals constituting a mass?
In collaboration with Choreoscope
Monsters, Silja Julie Chabilan, Marine Lemoine, Tiffanie Pierrot, Alejandra Vaughan. 2 min.50sec. 2018, France
A documentary short in black and white that takes the intimate statements of three individuals to the camera to explore the relationship between our physical imperfections or " monsters" and how we have learnt to coexist with them in one way or another.
Sisters, Daphne Lucker. 15 min. 2018, Netherlands
Three sisters grow up in a broken home. They are at each other’s mercy and survive as long as they are together. But is their loving connection strong enough to endure their gloomy surroundings?
In collaboration with Choreoscope
Zinetika 2019 jaialdian ikusgai izango diren pelikulen hautaketa.