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Nuns’ Night Out Australia, 2005, 10 minutes Director: Samuel James Choreographer Julie-Anne Long This absurdist dance fantasy tells the story of a group of nuns who have arrived in a landscape in and around the historic village of Hill End. As evening falls, the nuns get ready for an evening out at the local theatre. Through hallucinatory and surreal images, their veils of propriety are gradually removed and untameable, deeply sensual desires come to the surface. Pandora New Zealand, 2005, 8 minutes Director: Alyx Duncan One day, a young girl is washed up on the beach and is found by a mysterious recluse. In the remote surroundings, a subtle and intimate relationship springs up between the two female characters. How do you deal with a human body that is lifeless? How do you dress it and how do you break the ties that join people without spilling blood? 
Butterfly Man Australia, 2005, 5 minutes Director: Samantha Rebillet Music: Jessica Wells The mini documentary Butterfly Man tells the story of butterfly collector Don Herbison-Evans, who undergoes a personal metamorphosis through dance. The collector moves like a butterfly across the dance floor! This moving portrait was shown already at the 2005 IDFA, but is ideal for the Cinedans programme. Dance and film lovers thus have a second opportunity to see it. I dream of Augustine Australia/ United Kingdom, 2005, 10 minutes Director: Cordelia Beresford Choreography: Narelle Benjamin Music: Huey Benjamin An insane woman of today thinks she is in the Salpetrière Hospital in Paris, which was famous in the nineteenth century for the public display of the young, hysterical woman Augustine. Observed by an invisible doctor, the woman fights for her soul, while she tries to get a grip on her body. Deep inner turmoil and human insecurity is portrayed in powerful dance movements and a terrifying calmness. The woman’s story is told through snippets of thoughts and fantasies. Nascent Australia/United Kingdom, 2005, 10 minutes Director: Gina Czarnecki The film Nascent is difficult to describe. It is a film and an installation at the same time, and its hybrid form places it somewhere between visual art, experimental media, technology and dance. Raw film material from the Australian Dance Theatre dancers is completely ‘distorted’ and transformed in the post-production of the film, creating alienating, rhythmic and almost indistinguishable forms of the human body. In collaboration with computer programmers, bioscientists and sound artists, Czarnecki reflects in Nascent on the ‘modern man’ and the possible corruption of his genetic material. Break New Zealand, 2006, 14 minutes Director: Shona McGullagh A long-term relationship between two lovers is nearing its end. In the rough landscape of New Zealand, a depressed mother takes the decision to leave her partner and nine-year-old son. McGullagh creates an almost poetic image of the malaise of the relationship by interweaving a daring montage with a realistic and human event. Aanvang | 19.30 uur Entree | 5 euro, korting is niet van toepassing Voertaal | n.v.t.