Temporary Contemporary

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Shorts Program 9: To Create
Mt View ShowPlace ICON Theatre & Kitchen #2 Sun, Aug 27, 2023 9:30 PM
Artistic creation is essential to our humanity—whether it be a painting, a song, a sculpture, a book, a movie, a dance, or [insert your favorite art form here]. We all need the enrichment that art brings to our lives, and this incredible series examines our nature to create.
Shorts Program 9: To Create
Mt View ShowPlace ICON Theatre & Kitchen #2 Tue, Aug 29, 2023 9:15 PM
Artistic creation is essential to our humanity—whether it be a painting, a song, a sculpture, a book, a movie, a dance, or [insert your favorite art form here]. We all need the enrichment that art brings to our lives, and this incredible series examines our nature to create.
Film Info
Type of Film/Event:Short
Runtime (minutes):14
Genre:Drama
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Jonathan Huor
Manuel Von Arx
Steven Forster
Pricilla Villa
Michel Briand
Branca Scheidegger
Harumi Mummentahler
Kevin Dos Santos
Frederic Dos Santos
Director:Oliver David Brand
Executive Producer:Oliver David Brand
Producer(s):Oliver David Brand
Cinematography:Valentin Bearlocher
Fabian Steiner
MArkus Zehnder
Music By:Simon Hauswirth
Demian Wyssmann
Editor:Oliver Brand
Dominic Frei
Roger Koller

Description

Nothing is for eternity. Not even places that seem to outlast time. With Temporary Contemporary, director and filmmaker Oliver Brand impressively stages this transience by turning it into a stage for contemporary dancers. In doing so, he creates a moving testimony to the ephemeral nature of places that are in precisely that state only on the day the film is shot.

 

The powerful, vulnerable and poetic choreographies, which were created under the eyes of choreographer Jonathan Hour, form touching living counterpoints to the static emptiness of the epic, sometimes inhospitable spaces. The music, composed especially for the film, creates a unique mood in each room and gives each dancer their own musical platform. Seemingly effortlessly, the sounds are woven together over the 13 minutes, giving a whole despite their individual parts. The music was composed and designed by Simon Hauswirth and Demian Wyssmann. To be enjoyed in the cinema in 5.1 surround sound.