MoveStream 05 Screendance | Scandinavia

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MoveStream 05 - Screendance | Scandinavia

11 February 2011

Interview with Rannvá Káradóttir

This interview is one of the many that I will be uploading as part of MoveStream's focus on dance videos/films made in the Scandinavian countries.  The series investigates the directorial choices that Scandinavian filmmakers make and asks more specifically about the dark emotional tone that is seemingly present in most of the works coming from Northern Europe.  It will explore this and ask why - is it psycho-geographic? or.... 

Margaret Sharrow says about Magma after visiting Liverpool Biennial. "It may be apparent by now that I have longed to go to the Faroes for many years. This film was far more than imaginative transport, however. It seemed not to posit an impossible relationship between the people  and the landscape; instead the black-clad figures became high-speed embodiments of the geological ultraslow dance of the land itself - the  magma..." 

Rannvá Káradóttir  was in Copenhagen last week to show her dance film BOW which won the DFA Dance for Camera Jury Award in NYC in Jan 2011. I asked her about her screendance work Magma, and what makes it so surreal and other. 

Magma is the first film in The Cycle, a series of 8 experimental short films that embrace and discover movement through camera. The films are shot in the extreme and wild landscapes of a remote group of islands far up in the North Atlantic Ocean, The Faroe Islands. Fragmented stories are unraveled in these open and empty spaces, enhanced by the uncontrollable and extreme weather conditions that have an important character in all the films.

Deprived from dialogues and narratives, the repetitive patterns of movements, costumes, music, landscapes and other components create an intriguing atmosphere that takes the viewer to a surrealistic yet hauntingly beautiful universe. 

Photographer: Katrin Svabo Bech© Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir
R A M M A T I KRannvá Káradóttir & Marianna Mørkøre

 

 To read more about The Cycle, visit www.rammatik.blogspot.com

Interview

Shot and edited by 

Jeannette Ginslov

http://jeannette.ginslov.com

 

Location

Dansehallerne Copenhagen Denmark

 

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