THULE

In 2014 WECreate Productions embarked on a multi-sensorial journey across Iceland, one of the last untouched nature environments in Europe. The footage capture during this excursion has been integrated into a life performance called WECreate ICE (2016), and crafted for a multi-channel video installation by the same name under the exhibit called Latent Spaces (2018).

Guided by Salzer’s themes of Romanticism and Wanderlust and Baer’s notion of liminal spaces, THULE is the screendance version of the same project. The work offers embodied accounts of this Nordic environment in the form of kinesthetic poetry and visual/aural metaphors of lived experiences.

dancer/choreographer: heike salzer; cinematography + editing + direction: ana baer and heike salzer; original music: richard d. hall, luke bramford, james ryan, brendan pillay; location and logistics: ingi jensson; production WECreate Productions.

AWARDS

Tulum World Environment Film Festival, Best Original Music, Campeche, México; 2022

Retro Avant-Garde Film Fest, Best original music, Venezia, Italy; 2021

Athens International Digital Film Festival, Best short documentary, Greece; 2020

Festival Internacional de Videodanza, Mención Honorífica, Mexico City; 2020

Frosbite Film Festival, Best Original Sound of the month, Denver, US; 02/2020

Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema, Programmers’ Selection Award, California, US; 2020

Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema, Programmers’ Selection Award, California, US; 2020

Dumbo Film Festival, Best experimental film, NYC; 10/2020

SCREENINGS

09/28-10,02/2022 Wildlife Vaasa Festival-International Nature Film, Finland

05/24-28/2022 D’olhar Itinerante, Goiânia, Brazil

04/12-04/19/2022 Wicklow ScreenDance Laboratory, Co.Wicklow, Ireland

03/31/2022 One Earth Awards, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

12/25/2021 Launch of Center for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange University of Roehampton, London, UK

12/11-12/2021 Haiku Festival, Hague, Netherlands

10/24/2021 Sao Carlos Video Dance Festival, Brazil

03/2021   Parana International Film Festival, Argentina

02/17-27/2021 KINAM International Film Festival, Tlatelolco, MX

09/10-13/ 2020 Festival Internacional de Videodanza Mexico City, (online event)

08/14/2020 60 Seconds International Film Festival, Islamabad, Pakistan

07/27-29/2020 Dance Days Chania Video Dance Festival, Greece

06/15/2020 Movies by Movers, online event, USA

01/2020 Official Selection, Frosbite Online Indi Film Festival

10/21-27/2019 Corpo e Câmera: Composição Coreográfica na Videodança SESC Campinas, Brazil

05/06/2019 Screen.Dance Scotland’s Festival, Perth Theatre, Scotland