MoveStream 05 - Screendance | Scandinavia
11 February 2011
Interview with Rannvá Káradóttir
This interview is one of the many that I will be uploading as part of MoveStream's focus on dance videos/films made in the Scandinavian countries. The series investigates the directorial choices that Scandinavian filmmakers make and asks more specifically about the dark emotional tone that is seemingly present in most of the works coming from Northern Europe. It will explore this and ask why - is it psycho-geographic? or....
Margaret Sharrow says about Magma after visiting Liverpool Biennial. "It may be apparent by now that I have longed to go to the Faroes for many years. This film was far more than imaginative transport, however. It seemed not to posit an impossible relationship between the people and the landscape; instead the black-clad figures became high-speed embodiments of the geological ultraslow dance of the land itself - the magma..."
Rannvá Káradóttir was in Copenhagen last week to show her dance film BOW which won the DFA Dance for Camera Jury Award in NYC in Jan 2011. I asked her about her screendance work Magma, and what makes it so surreal and other.
Magma is the first film in The Cycle, a series of 8 experimental short films that embrace and discover movement through camera. The films are shot in the extreme and wild landscapes of a remote group of islands far up in the North Atlantic Ocean, The Faroe Islands. Fragmented stories are unraveled in these open and empty spaces, enhanced by the uncontrollable and extreme weather conditions that have an important character in all the films.
R A M M A T I KRannvá Káradóttir & Marianna Mørkøre
To read more about The Cycle, visit www.rammatik.blogspot.com
Interview
Shot and edited by
Jeannette Ginslov
Location
Dansehallerne Copenhagen Denmark
MoveStream is a co-production with www.dance-tech.net
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