REEL Art: #2 – People in Cities, Home Movies & Try to Keep Up
March 1 - March 31
Free
Films by Rosie Trump
“People in Cities” is a short stop motion dance film which assembles over three thousand still images. Paired with implied environments, four dancers navigate internal and external pressures. Referencing visual artist Robert Longo’s Men in Cities series, “People in Cities” is the second dance film in which director/choreographer Rosie Trump manifests the implied movement in Longo’s images.
“People in Cities” is a short stop motion dance film which assembles over three thousand still images. Paired with implied environments, four dancers navigate internal and external pressures. Referencing visual artist Robert Longo’s Men in Cities series, “People in Cities” is the second dance film in which director/choreographer Rosie Trump manifests the implied movement in Longo’s images.
Director & Choreographer: Rosie Trump, In Collaboration with Dancers: Jelani Best, Saleema Berry, Noelle Ruggieri, Moriah Wegman, Director of Photography: Trisha French, Music: Jasmine Guffond
“Home Movies” consists of vintage found footage of people dancing. Living room dance parties, impromptu twirls down the street and in the kitchen, and birthday, holiday and wedding celebrations are excavated from vintage home movies. By collaging together scenes of movement, old footage is seen anew. “Home Movies” positions our contemporary normalizations of voyeurism against the privately intended moments of the past.
Director and Editor: Rosie Trump, Music: Florian Noack
Materialized through movement and vocalization, “Try to Keep Up” captures the overwhelming feeling of ‘trying to keep up’ amidst the barrage of cacophonous and chaotic US news cycles and domestic political developments. Against a gritty industrial site, one performer sings a heart-breaking song where “try to keep up, try to keep up baby” is repeated over and over with increasing desperations. It is the physical embodiment of a cry for help when it feels like the world is crashing down on you.
Director & Choreographer: Rosie Trump, Dancers: Ozora Cheek, Keely Cobb, Melissa Ennis, Heather Rodriguez, Abby Rosen (vocalist), Cinematographer: James Coleman II Tweaking Reality Studio, Music: Chance Utter (original composition)
Rosie Trump is the founder and chief curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. She is the award-winning choreographer/director/editor of eleven short dance films. She is interested in the reflexive nature of the camera lens and the cinematic possibilities of digital media. Trump’s dance films have recently screened at ADFs Movies by Movers, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Souci Dance Film Festival, Extremely Short Shorts at the Aurora Picture Show, Light Moves Dance Film Festival, Frame X Frame, and Dance Film Association’s Long Legs Short Films. Currently residing in Reno, NV, Trump is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno. www.rosietrump.org
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