moves 09

Previously in this season

moves Cartwheels

Enjoy a screening with the family! Discover the mad ‘bookovores’, the Parcours practitioners and how playing with puppets can reach far beyond inanimate objects.

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Secrets and Obsessions 1

What are our everyday and existential obsessions? Is the process of aging for a dancer as bad as the destruction of our environment? And what…

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Secrets and Obsessions 2

A sequel to Friday’s screening, the filmmakers of Secrets and Obsessions 2 magnify our absurd, nonsensical habits as a form of personal madness in films…

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Seeking You

Seeking You is about our search for love in all domains of our lives, from the family cell to the great romance. But life (and…

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Discovery

A selection of little wonders from all over the world, from music video My Paper House on Fire to an Argentinian tale of a river-woman…

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Panorama

Not much time, not much money? Catch up with 5 years of moves with this panoramic programme guest curated by young curators from MMU Cheshire…

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moves09 Africa! Invitation to the Dance – Body and Taboo

German choreographer Gerda Konig creates a new dance show in Nairobi, Kenya with both German and African dancers. The film depicts the artistic process of…

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Exotica!

Reeldance present their best shorts, followed by the first part of moves09 Africa!, a rare selection of African dance shorts with a special introduction by…

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Carte Blanche to NU2’S

Selection of Catalonian films telling stories and constructing poetic landscapes through the movements of the body, dance and the expressive capacity of gesture rather than…

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FORUM Narrative Tactics for Live Cinema

Mia Makela presents her work and explorations in the realm of real-time visuals through various aspects of live cinema: the meaning of effects, real-time montage…

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FORUM & SCREENING My Life as an Avatar (12A)

Ian Patterson leads us through the often-controversial world of Machinima (the lo-fi use of videogame engines to create generated imagery for animated films) and explores…

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FORUM Narrative, What Narrative?

Examining how a narrative reveals itself in the artistic process: whether an artist sets out to construct a pre-determined narrative, or whether they recognise the…

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FORUM Last Night a Dance Film Saved my Life

Alex Reuben will be questioning the relationship between movement/sound/narrative and how the use of emerging technologies enables more compelling artwork.

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TALK & SCREENING moves classics presents Jan Svankmajer (15)

Michael Brooke gives a one-hour introduction to his curated programme, celebrating the work of Czech Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer, which includes screenings of the must-see…

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FORUM Connecting Points of the Recombiant Fiction

Using examples from his project The Big Plot, Paolo Cirio will present recombinant fiction as a new form of fiction: that is, an interactive narration…

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