RIIF FOURTH EDITION

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RIFF; R.E.D. International Film Festival
FOURTH EDITION
July 5th-12th, 2019
Dance-Art-Cinema

We happily announce the winners of the Jury and Audience Awards here.

***JURY AWARD
WINNERS
ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL? By Mohammad Bakhshi
BÓRIA by Iwona Pasińska
THIS DANCE HAS NO END by Fenia Kotsopoulou
HONORARY MENTIONS
THE BIG RACE by John Williams
KAORI ITO, A BODY OF LIFE by Tatjana Jankovic

Jury: Ella Fiskum, RIFF director (NO); Susana Temperley, specialist in Art Critic and Divulgation (AR); Yolanda M. Guadarrama, RIFF Curator (MX).

***AUDIENCE AWARD:
ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL? By Mohammad Bakhshi
VARIATION OF SUSPENSION | DROP. By David Alræk, Katrine Patry & Lisa Collete Bysheim

Comments of the jury:

***JURY AWARD
This year, the complete selection of films at RIFF was done by looking for a variety of origins, conceptions of camera-body-movement, and different aesthetic and ideological choices that could reflect the present diversity of points of view characteristic in short narrative films related to movement, dance film, art film and screendance. In consequence to this criterion, the selection of the awarded films is oriented to mark: the achievements reached by the reflection on the limits of the language of the selected films; and the intensity of feelings provoked to the viewer that each film is able cause, according with its own thematic, ideological direction and effective audiovisual tools used to tell what is meant to state.

WINNERS

ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL? By Mohammad Bakhshi
We consider this film as a good bridge between the more traditional cinema and the movement in dance and audiovisual images. The camera is close to the bodies, and you, as audience, feel that you are in between those bodies in the desert, this is achieved thanks to the good story-telling editing. Eventhough the body expression is natural, without a dance education, the emotion of the characters make them fresh and meaningful. There is a very well directed message to bring life where you can see only destruction and men against men. This short story full of life tells you that no matter the political issues, soldiers are still human beings with the capability to interact with people and feel humanity without the perversions of adverse political affairs.

BÓRIA by Iwona Pasińska
We appreciate this dance film as quite exquisite in expressive dance theater film, it brings you colorful moving images from the ancient Polish culture that go from celebrations to processions of death. It is amazing how the director uses the camera without movement, but the processions pass in front of the camera with a lot of historical information and quite a lot of body movement by good contemporary dancers. This film is based in a painting of folk culture, and it would be the dream of any painter, bringing their characters to life in a very successful combination of dance, cinema and visual richness.

THIS DANCE HAS NO END by Fenia Kotsopoulou
We admire how the director of this dance film manages to do a pretty strong film with very few audiovisual elements. The dance made in a ritual style is so intense that grabs you to create a world of ideas that provokes you an intimate reflection on life and death, it makes you think of these dreadful abstractions: “life and death”. The camera style surrounding the dance and the almost silent sound which consists only on the shoes over the floor, create the space where the dancer is floating.

HONORARY MENTIONS

THE BIG RACE by John Williams
This animated film in combination with real dancers has a strong imprint of colorful experimentation images and beautiful dance. Besides this very well managed artistic features, it makes moral reflections by speculating who can win the race, why do they win and how the referees can interpret their skills and faults to make a surprising and unfair or hilarious result. It’s an extreme metaphor of life. The resulting film is a complex and good example of the combination of dance, art, cinema and controversial messages.

KAORI ITO, A BODY OF LIFE by Tatjana Jankovic
This one hour documentary, based on a very interesting dancer and choreographer, makes you feel how art is created because it does not only document the character’s life, but also gets inside Kaory’s art, showing parts of many of her works, having enough time in the film to show you the choreographer’s feelings, and taking you deeply into the development of her art construction.

PROCEDURE FOR WINNERS
All the winners and honorary mention creators are granted a residency at R.E.D. in Norway.
The residency consists of free lodging, free work space, and an official showing arranged by R.E.D.
Traveling expenses are responsibility of creators.
Check information about R.E.D. in this site: https://reddanz.com/program/residencies.html
And contact us: ecfiskum@gmail.com

RIFF; R.E.D. International Film Festival
FOURTH EDITION
July 5th-12th, 2019
Dance-Art-Cinema

See the program below!!!

All these to be found in R.E.D:
• Café ExPeriance (Exhibition-Performance-Ambiance) in R.E.D. CAFÈ THEATER. Painter Justin Chirico (USA), dancers performing: Ella Fiskum (NO), Hege Gabrielsen (NO) and Hediyeh Azma (IR). The event includes Syrian food by MerSmak. (Tickets at tikkio.com)
• SØNDANZ Film Lab & Art Camp (FLAC)
• Animation Workshop with Natalia Malykhina, for children and young people; and everyone with young soul...! (Tickets at tikkio.com)
• Closing Ceremony and closing film. Announcement of Jury and Audience Awards results. Film: ABRAZOS IMBORRABLES, by Pablo Hadis (AR). 1:33 hrs. Documentary about Tango history in Argentina, in R.E.D. ARENA. (Tickets at tikkio.com)