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This film is part of Silvia Lucchesi’s Carte Blanche, director and founder of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Festival in Florence.
Found Choreographies is a work that talks about dance starting from the representations of dance itself. The video reflects on the intangible matter of which dance is made of, freeing its linguistic immediacy from the force of the image to which it is often associated with, through a visual climax that from the movement of the hand leads to an evolution of kinetic matter until its final eclipse and celebration, in a compelling game of meanings and associations. The work is a dense cut-up, a dialectical exercise composed with intentional temporal asymmetry by cutting out shreds of “found footage” from the history of dance and performance, crossing cinema and the internet, in search of a sensitive kinetic matter. A flow of decontextualized images to be rethought in the present in a new form, to search for other meanings, as if the substance of things existed only in the non-place of detachment.
Found Choreographies is a work that talks about dance starting from the representations of dance itself. The video reflects on the intangible matter of which dance is made of, freeing its linguistic immediacy from the force of the image to which it is often associated with, through a visual climax that from the movement of the hand leads to an evolution of kinetic matter until its final eclipse and celebration, in a compelling game of meanings and associations. The work is a dense cut-up, a dialectical exercise composed with intentional temporal asymmetry by cutting out shreds of “found footage” from the history of dance and performance, crossing cinema and the internet, in search of a sensitive kinetic matter. A flow of decontextualized images to be rethought in the present in a new form, to search for other meanings, as if the substance of things existed only in the non-place of detachment.
Other festival:
OGR Art Corner, The Impermanent Collection # 6, Italy (2021)
OGR Art Corner, The Impermanent Collection # 6, Italy (2021)
| Director | Jacopo Jenna, Jacopo Jenna |
| Editing | Jacopo Jenna |
| Sound | Francesco Casciaro |
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Image tirée du film Found Choreographies // Image from the film Found Choreographies
Image tirée du film Found Choreographies // Image from the film Found Choreographies
Production
Jacopo Jenna
Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer, performer and filmmaker creating stage works, video pieces, and installations. The works are oriented towards research concerning the perception of dance or choreography as an extended practice, generating a variety of performative context to reframe the body in relationship with movements. In Europe he has worked with dance companies, choreographic research projects and various artists like Jacopo Miliani, Caterina Barbieri, Roberto Fassone, Ramona Caia, Bassam Abou Diab. His projects are produced and supported by spazioK/Kinkaleri. His work participated to festivals and venues including Centrale Fies Dro, Virgilio Sieni, MART Museum Rovereto, Contemporanea Festival Prato, Pépinières européennes pour jeans artistes / Young Video Creation, Palazzo Strozzi Firenze, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art Prato, Fabbrica Europa Firenze, CROSS International performance award, Short Theatre Rome, Danae Festival Milan, Dansem Marseille, Bipod Festival Beirut, Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana Venice, Chantiers d’Europe – Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Do Disturb – Palais de Tokyo Paris, Mudam Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Selected films:
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (2021)
Found Choreographies (2021)
Pangea Calling (2020)
Lo spettacolo più bello del mondo (2020)
Solari (2017)
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (2021)
Found Choreographies (2021)
Pangea Calling (2020)
Lo spettacolo più bello del mondo (2020)
Solari (2017)
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