RIFF MAGAZINE 2021

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EDITORIAL Dear All, Welcome to RIFF; R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL -dance-art-cinema-.

This annual festival is celebrating its SIXTH EDITION this year. It was founded in July 2015 and is located on a farm overlooking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.

After a long year, where the COVID-19 situation is continuing, we are again celebrating RIFF in two versions: Digital, in our online RIFF Magazine, and in our venue: R.E.D. Residency Eina Danz from June 25th to July 3rd, 2021. Both versions will show all the 33 officially selected films. Digitally the films will be available for one month, from June 25th to July 25th, 2021.* We received a record amount of very good films this year. May this fact be due to the pandemic? Has this situation forced us to reflect, go deeper and refine our thoughts? And, may the situation provoke us to speak out through art: dance, literature, visual arts, film and music? Many people have experienced the necessity to use film as the preferred medium for expression, maybe because it has been available, or possibly because of our imposed solitude.

The current global climate: Black Lives Matter, human right issues, war, and the climate crises, may also have been important factors that have challenged us to create work that pushes our limits, transcends, and tells stories that are more poignant, passionate, brutal, or true. These are the kind of films we have chosen, films that expand and challenge our minds. We have also chosen those films that appeal to our senses, our quest for beauty, physicality, rhythm and love. Furthermore, we chose films that reflect art, humanity, equality, urban madness, age and feminine perspectives.

As well as films that reveal intense relationships, transgression of gender, originality, dance history and avant-garde.

The official selection is a collection of films from all over the world, including four films from Norway, and consists of dance film, screendance, art film, short film, feature film and documentaries.

Our international jury will choose the winners who will get a residency at R. E. D. in the near future. We’ll publish the results on our website by July 3rd.

In addition to the film programs we offer a festival exhibition with painter Bjørnulf Dyrud, live dance performances, a performance lecture by the renowned Norwegian dance artist Cecilie Lindemann Steen, and a three days FLAC (Film Lab & Art Camp). The festival ends with the award ceremony and an Iranian Night with live music and dance. Followed

by Knutepunkt Innlandet, an open air performance picnic with dancers from the whole county in a new collaboration with DansINN. R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), is an regional competence center for dance and an international, national and regional art and culture arena, running with a full year interdisciplinary residency program, and a production house for dance and film, open for various audiences.

As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded during RIFF SECOND EDITION as a neighborhood where the motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was led by Ella Fiskum, Yolanda M. Guadarrama and Madeline Wood, RIFF Team: director, curator and visual creator of the sign. It is a playful action, but also a reality, as everything can happen in the world of motion pictures.

See the festival trailer HERE. Please, enjoy the festival and share moments of art with us!!!

Ella Fiskum.

*A few films have limited online screening time.

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CONTRIBUTION ELLA FISKUM (NO) - FRIFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Ella hails from Trondheim, Norway. She was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, under Natalia Papina in St. Petersburg, and at The John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart. After working extensively as a contemporary dancer, she founded Ella Fiskum Danz working both as a choreographer, dancer, director, and producer. With 29 years of experience, producing over 18 full length stage productions and 21 films, she has received international awards and toured the world. In 2012 Fiskum relocated to a farm outside Oslo for the purpose of building up R.E.D. - an International Centre for the Arts, which she is running. R.E.D. became a Regional Competence Center for Dance in 2018, and, since 2021, it’s funded by the government. She received the Vestre Toten Culture Prize in 2019, OA in 2020, and a five year working Government Grant (2021-2025). Fiskum founded RIFF in 2015. www.reddanz.com

YOLANDA M. GUADARRAMA (MX) - RIFF CURATOR

Yolanda M. Guadarrama. Mexican. Engineer, dancer, choreographer, audiovisual creator, coeditor of MOHO Magazine and Editorial. She is dedicated to the creation, exhibition and promotion of screendance, she made her first screendance in 1994. Movimiento en Movimiento Director (2013-2021). She was Cofounder of Motion festival in Berlin, 2008. Curator for RIFF festival, Norway for 6 years. She was a Screendance judge at LIFF, UK, 2017. Her work AILING ANIMAL obtained honorable mention in Agite y Sirva, 2015. POTATO EATERS obtained first place as an experimental short, Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival, 2018. Her works have been exhibited in several international festivals. She is a member of RED IBEROAMERICANA DE VIDEODANZA-Screendance Iberoamerican Net (REDIV). www.yolandamguadarrama.com

MADELINE WOOD (FR) - RIFF DESIGNER AND ASSISTANT CURATOR

Madeline is a French visual artist and performer involved in many art contexts such as contemporary dance, performance, drawing (among others). She is also co-founder of the publishing house Les Pinatas and curator for Microscopies, a festival for independent publishers. She is currently writing for the dance critic review Les Démêlées and working with various artists, collectives and companies. She joined RIFF team in 2017. www.madelinewood.fr

HEDIYEH AZMA (IR) - RIFF GUEST COORDINATOR AND MODERATOR

Hediyeh is an Iranian award-winning dance artist based in Oslo. She has 25-year experience in the field of Iranian court dance. She has also trained in modern, contemporary and classical ballet. Hediyeh was awarded ‘Best Performer’ and ‘Best Director’ at the Iranian Movement Festival. She holds an MA in Dance Anthropology from a joint program by NTNU(NO)/Roehampton(UK)/SZTE (HU)/ UCA(FR). Recently, her screen-dance film was selected by different International festivals. She performed in RIFF in 2019, is currently working on the site-specific dance project “The one from far”, and joined RIFF team in 2020.

YIKAI LUC WU (CN/US) - RIFF ASSISTANT DESIGNER, MAGAZINE

Originally from China, Yikai Luc Wu is a film director and cinematographer based in LA who works in dance and narrative films. With a strong personal tempo, Luc works to capture irrational human emotion and analyze the rational logistic behind every physical movement. His works have been presented at Utah dance film festival and 40 North Dance Film Festival. He holds an MFA degree in film directing from California Institute of the Arts. He joined the RIFF team in 2018. www.yikai-wu.com

NAYELI BENHUMEA SALTO (MX) - RIFF ASSISTANT DESIGNER

Graphic designer and interdisciplinary artist. She is one of the curators of Movimiento en Movimiento festival; She is the founder, producer and manager of DANZAPERRA, a self-managed and independent publishing project. Nayeli gives workshops on movement, body and critical thinking of gender and body. She also gives workshops and consultancies on art projects. She’s just published her first book “Desert. Fragments to disappear”. nayelibenhumea.wordpress.com

JULIE ALVA CLEVE (NO) - PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND COORDINATOR

Julie is a cultural worker, film director and visual anthropologist currently based in Tromsø, Norway. Working within various artistic and cultural contexts in Tromsø and beyond, she holds a MA degree in Visual Cultural Studies, and a BA in Sustainable Development Studies. As a filmmaker, she has a specific interest in documentary, ethnography and art film. Her main concern lies within the investigation of social-ecological relationships, both artistically and academically. juliealva@outlook.com

SILJE LIEN (NO) - LOCAL MARKETING ADMINISTRATIVE

Lives in Kolbu, Østre Toten. Got a bachelor’s degree in web development from NTNU, graduated in 2018. Works now in the marketing department, and also with graphic design, compliance, photography, and web development in PM-International Norway. Started working for RIFF in 2021.

JURY CAROLINE KLØVRUD (NO)

Caroline is an editor/videographer. She was born and raised in Eina, Norway; educated from The Norwegian Television School and she’s now working at The Oslo Company and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Caroline’s genre speciality is documentary, but she also works with reality, fiction and music programs. She is a young and innovative film creator who believes film contains a magic element —the ability to transport the audience to another time and place: with that tool we can evoke emotions and change people’s perceptions.

CECILIE LINDEMAN STEEN (NO)

Dancer. Educated from National Academy of Dance in Oslo (1985), followed by studies at Central School of Ballet in London (1986). Steen’s performance work stretches over 35 years, is mainly related to the independent dance field, except two years in Carte Blanche, participating in about hundred productions as well as singular performances, improvisations, events and concerts. The performance activity includes wide national, Nordic and European touring. She’s collaborated with a wide range of choreographers and other artists. Of special importance, Cecilie has been in a close collaboration with choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen since 1984. For the past five years she’s worked in collaboration with Shanti Brahmachari, Kristina Gjems and Mia Habib. Since 2015, Steen has worked adapting several choreographic and poetic scores by choreographer/author Janne-Camilla Lyster. (Cecilie photograph by Tale Hendnes).

FLAC

KORESPONDANCE

FILM EDITING LABORATORY

We are honored to have a collaboration with KoresponDance, a festival produced by SE.STA, the Czech Center for choreographic development. RIFF SIXTH EDITION will screen the film-document of the following performance. www.korespondance.cz

FLAC (Film Lab & Art Camp) offers a complete mentored film editing laboratory open to dance artists, and others working within the fields of film, art or text, with Alline Almeida Lande.

Alline, who is an award winning film editor trained at the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, Norway, will within 3 days guide the participants through film editing, dramaturgy, film language and process, from idea to finished film or sequence.

• The aim of this workshop is to create awareness around available technical and creative tools, and to make the participants more familiar with the dramatic film language.

• The participants will be taught and challenged to use some of the tools applicable in film to enhance the cinematic experience and make their film more appealing and accessible to a broader audience.

• FLAC is for anyone who is interested in increasing their competence within the film medium, aiming to bridge the gap between the field of dance, art and cinema. The Laboratory will conclude in a screening and feedback session on the 30th of june.

40 min. 2020 PLI brings together 22 conference chairs, obsessive rhythm and one devoted man. On a small platform, Viktor Černický dives resolutely into the effort for indefinite construction, reconstruction and deconstruction of the Universe. The outcome is an intelligent and playful solo - a physical metaphor for endless human dynamics, patience and striving that turns even the most ordinary objects into incredible pieces of architecture. Following the baroque philosophy of Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz, PLI is an unpredictable and humorous performance where baroque robustness is replaced with spatial modesty and material minimalism.

By Alline Almeida Lande, moderated by Ella Fiskum June 28th-30th 2021.

PLI

Editing is not so much a putting together as it is a discovery of a path.

by Walter Murch.

Concept, Choreography, Performance: Viktor Černický Lighting design: Zuzana Režná Dramaturgy: Lukáš Karásek Technical realisation: Drahomír Stulír Co-production: PONEC – dance venue Premiere: November 11th 2018, PONEC – dance venue In collaboration with: PONEC – dance venue (CZ), BuranTeatr Brno (CZ), CNK Záhrada Banská Bystrica (SK), Théâtre De L’arsenal Val-de-Reuil (FR), CIRQUEON Praha (CZ), Alfréd ve dvoře Theatre (CZ), Studio Alta and Festival Bazaar (CZ), Pôtoň Theatre (SK), Festival Kiosk (SK), CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa (IT) Financially supported by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and The City of Brno.

Camera for the film: Toni Laznik

VIKTOR ČERNICKÝ CZECH REPUBLIC

ALLINE DE LA ALMEIDA LANDE BRAZIL-NORWAY

Originally from Brazil, Alline is a film editor based in Gjøvik, Norway, working with shorts, documentaries and feature films. Trained at the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, where her graduating film “To Guard a Mountain” won several awards, among others, an Amanda for best short film in 2012.

The film was also selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner in 2013, and was shortlisted for a student Oscar the same year. She was the film editor of “Time Between”, film that won RIFF audience award in 2017.

Viktor creates works that exist on the fine border between dance, performance, circus and physical theatre. He leads the long-term research project Body as Object/Object as Body, which examines the dynamics of the relationship between the object and the subjective individuality of the artist. His first solo performance Parolapolea earned him nominations in the categories Dancer of the Year and Dance Production of the Year at the Czech Dance Platform 2017, where he was also presented with a special award in the form of participation in Choreographic Research Week at the B-Motion Festival in Bassano del Grappa. His last solo performance PLI, performed after two years of work in November 2018, won the Audience Award and the Total Award of the Czech Dance Platform 2019. Thanks to this performance, Viktor became part of the selection of the prestigious European contemporary dance network Aerowaves Twenty20.

He is currently involved in the European project Shape It. In addition to his own work, he collaborates with Dominique Boivin, Cirk La Putyka, Petra Tejnorová, Daniel Gulko and Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté, among others. Since 2019, he has been a visiting teacher at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in the international Ma DOT program.

KNUTEPUNKT INNLANDET OPEN AIR HAPPENING - July 3rd at 3pm.

Bring your own picnic & access BERG FIELD IN FOREST from R.E.D., EINAWOOD. OPEN EVENT FOR AUDIENCE AND DANCERS IN INNLANDET COUNTY NORWAY.

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