November 23rd, 2010
Film success
After a successful screening at VideodanzaBA International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires in September, Anna Macdonald’s latest film, Things that start slowly, has been selected to compete in the VideoDansa Barcelona International Prize. This is an international competition designed to recognize those most relevant works of the audiovisual creation with the body, movement and choreographic language as significant elements of the content and form of the film. As a part of this competition it will be screened in the Image Dance and new media festival in Barcelona in January 13th – 16th 2011.
Things that start slowly
It has also been selected for International Dance Film Festival, Belgium DANSCAMDANSE which is a prestigious festival introduced this year by the choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. Things that start slowly was one of only two works selected from the UK.
Things that start slowly is a film triptych consists of images of ships, a baby, and two women first in early pregnancy and then later at nine months. The women move continuously, carefully re-positioning themselves in relation to the screen and each other. One of them is heard talking quietly, amidst sounds of water and wind, about trying to predict outcomes and possibilities. Running through the work is a pervading sense of loss; a restless tension between things that remain, and things that disappear over time.
Anna works in a company called Forecast who have been based in the North West since 2002. Their work spans dance, live art, film and installations and they have collaborated with artists such as Paul Hampson, Heidi Rustgaarde and Andrea Buckley. As well as receiving international recognition for their film based work Forecast have won commissions for their installations and their live work has been regularly supported by the Arts Council. They have recently been invited to be part of Raw, Roar, Rare an International Performance festival in Liverpool 2010.