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POINT TAKEN 2011

Point Taken is an interdisciplinary dance film project initiated by the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and the Per- forming Arts Fund NL in collaboration with the Dutch national broadcaster NTR and Cinedans. Each of the four teams of Netherlands-based filmmakers and choreographers has created a dance film of eight minutes duration.

EVOLUTIE VAN SOORTEN

DIRECTOR: DAN GEESIN, ESTHER ROTS | CHOREOGRAPHER: MELISSA ELLBERGER | PRODUCER: FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS
NL | 2011| 8’ | SHORT
An aimless but curious group of youngsters slip through a gate that happens to have been left open, and they find themselves on a construction site for Amsterdam’s North-South metro line. A parcours starts that brings them to a crescendo of new per- spectives on themselves and companions.

SPIEGELINGEN

DIRECTOR: MARINUS GROOTHOF |CHOREOGRAPHER: DUNJA JOCIC | PRODUCER: LEV PICTURES
NL | 2011 | 8’ | SHORT
Een man ontvlucht de drukte van een anonieme, chaotische straat. Hij glipt een gebouw binnen dat leeg blijkt te staan. In deze verlaten ruimte wordt hij steeds meer met zichzelf geconfronteerd.

HYPNAGOGIA; THE BORDERLAND STATE

DIRECTOR: FRANK SCHEFFER | CHOREOGRAPHER: MUHANAD RASHEED | PRODUCER: FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS
NL | 2011 | 8’ | SHORT
A dance film about that transitional state between wakefulness and sleep known as hypnogogia. A choreographer struggling with his latest creation discovers the key to his work in a dream. companions.

ONE FALSE MOVE

DIRECTOR: CLARA VAN GOOL | CHOREOGRAPHER: RIA MARKS | PRODUCER: KEYFILM
NL | 2011 | 8’ | SHORT
This film playfully explores our contemporary globalized society, which is putting pressure on the notion of ‘identity’. A not-so-young stewardess misses her flight and has to stay behind in a world unknown to her. A series of disturbing, amusing, in- timidating and romantic situations leads to her ill-fated death.

View NTR Podium, Point Taken 2

Point Taken 2010

Val

Joris Hoebe (director); Boukje Schweigman (choreography)
In the wide landscape of a barren flatlands a man falls from the sky. He discovers the changing of the seasons, de confrontation with the masses and the relation between ‘us’ and the ‘stranger.’ For a fleeting moment there is a shared intake of breath but in the end he is left in solitude.

Hyperscape

Marco Gerris & Wilko Bello (directors) & Marco Gerris (choreography)
Martial arts dance film in a prison. About the power of avoiding and the beauty of giving way. Now and then a firm kick. A ‘fight choreography’ for trickers, breakers and free runners. Through pushing their ‘moves made for movies’ to the limits they try to stop Marco Gerris, an unchained dancer, in his ‘run-to-freedom’.

Memory Lane

Paul and Menno de Nooijer (directors; Joost Vrouenraets (choreography)
In the autumn of their lives, flicking through old photos a couple looks back upon the long time they have been together. Times during which they have shown each other each corner of the room (literally and by figure of speech)..

Diamond Dancers

Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens (directors); Nicole Beutler (choreography)
A large group of line dancers travels to Amsterdam in a white tour bus to perform a flash mob in front of the Royal Palace at Dam Square. A flash mob is usually a surprise performance by young people, but now it is a group of elderly dancers who enjoy showing themselves to the passers-by and turn the expectations of the growing audience upside down.

View NTR Podium, Point Taken 1

You will also see excerpts of The Co(te)lette Film made by Ann Van den Broek and Academy Award winning director Mike Figgis.