Dance Film is a hybrid art form that combines dance and filmmaking. This innovative approach explores and transforms the physical nature of both mediums by incorporating choreographic ideas to produce a new visual language that can be showcased on screen.
BODY SITE aims to facilitate an experimental space for participants to translate their perceptions of dance and filmic ideas through merging choreographic and cinematic languages. By utilising dance film as a storytelling medium, participants can reimagine the way their body and movement are depicted in relation to the image, from spatial site and the construction of content.
In the creation of dance film, it is important to understand the sensibility of embodiment and dis-embodiment. The filmmaker needs to consider the site of being in the frame of the camera, the building or specific space, and the necessity of incorporating dance or film in the creation.
Saturday, 15 April 2023 | 9AM – 5PM | *SCAPE The Treetop, Level 5
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Elysa Wendi is a dance artist, curator and filmmaker based in Hong Kong. Since 2008, she began experimenting on choreographic ideas with the medium of film, performances and curatorial projects. In 2015, she co-founded Cinemovement, a platform facilitating the creation of interdisciplinary films through a laboratory setting together with Film Producer Jeremy Chua. In 2022 Elysa was appointed as festival director of Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival after her curatorial involvement with the festival since 2018. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time and biographical traces, Wendi explores these themes in her live and filmic works. One of her notable work, 1958 Delivery won the Best Experimental Film Award at the 2018 South Taiwan Film Festival and Gold Awards (Open Category) at the 28th IFVA Film Award Hong Kong 2023. |
