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Cinedans - Retrospective Clara van Gool

Artist in focus; Clara van GoolClara van Gool graduated in 1985 from the Dutch Film and Television Academy and since then, has worked on script continuity and as a director’s assistant on various Dutch films. She has been directing her own films since 1988. Many of you will be familiar, in particular, with Enter Achilles, the filming of the piece of the same name by DV8 Physical Theatre, from 1996. The film received no less than six different awards (including the International Emmy Award, Performing Arts, New York in 1997). For the festival, we have chosen a small retrospective covering the period 1988 up to the present. 
Reservaat The Netherlands, 1988, 8 minutes Reservaat was Van Gool’s first film on leaving the film academy. This film was nominated for a ‘Gouden Kalf’ award and was the Dutch entry for the Oscars that year. The film shows a duet by two woman in a deserted park. Bitings and other effects The Netherlands, 1995, 30 minutes In this film, adapted from a scenario by Angelika Oei, Van Gool is inspired by the Southern Italian tarantella dance, in which the bite of the tarantella spider produces alternating bouts of drowsiness and frantic dancing. Against the backdrop of an Italian villa in Renaissance style, and with the chaotic sounds of the Palermo streets, the film shows how the bitten dancers are overcome with searing pain and an irrepressible urge to dance. This film receive a ‘Gouden Kalf’ award in 1995. Courzand The Netherlands, 1993, 7 minutes In collaboration with the choreographer Angelika Oei, Van Gool make a film about two men and two women who meet each other in a sultry harbour bar name Courzand. This film is part of the series 4tokenS-I; a series of short dance films. Nussin The Netherlands, 1998, 15 minutes A wild party in a bolck of flats in a former Eastern bloc country has a fatal end. It is winter and two couples dance the tango. But they are actually alone, in their own flat. The dance film Nussin is inspired by the dance production Ocho. Nussin has won awards in the Netherlands and abroad, including a ‘Gouden Kalf’ in 1998. Aanvang | 16.00 uur Entree | 5 euro, korting is niet van toepassing Voertaal | n.v.t.