Moving Isolation
A project by Anna Holter + Company
WINNER AWARD at PARIS FILM AWARDWINNER AWARD for BEST EUROPEAN FIRST TIME DIRECTOR at 8andHalFilm Awards 2022 in Rome
WINNER AWARD for BEST EUROPEAN FIRST TIME DIRECTOR at Stanley Film Awards UK 2022
WINNER AWARD for BEST FILM at the Short Film Festival Feel Good 2020 at the Roses UK
Let us present Moving Isolation, a digital dance project, an artistic diary, a series of short films with nineteen artists from all over the world. It is an attempt to document and describe what we, individually and together, are facing right now. Early April 2020, isolated and quarantined, we decided instantly to meet. Almost two years later eight films have been released, a series of in total 40 minutes.
Dancing is movement, meeting is movement, solidarity is movement - living is movement. But how can one move in a time of isolation?
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Context
As the first lockdown was announced in March 2020 and marked a change in most people’s everyday lives worldwide, a group of freelance artists gathered. Online. It was a spontaneous attempt to stay creative, keep moving forward together, yet apart. But also, to exchange thoughts and experiences about this unique moment in time, never before encountered. It turned out to be more than just a one-time gathering and exchange of experiences regarding a pandemic and its impact on the participants.
With over 20 freelance artists from different cities around the world participating, it gradually developed into an artistic diary portraying a freelance dancer’s ever-fragile existence, their passion and conviction for the art, doughs mixed with hopes for the future. Moving Isolation became a platform for the artists to connect.
The overall goal of this short film series is to portray freelance dancers over time and to raise questions and voices that often don’t find much space in everyday discourse.
Awards
- Winner Award at Paris Film Award 2022- Winner Award for Best European First Time Filmmaker at the 8andHalFilm Awards 2022 in Rome, Italy
- Winner Award for Best European First Time Filmmaker at the 8andHalFilm Awards 2022 in Rome, Italy
- Winner Award for Best European First Time Filmmaker at the Stanley Film Awards UK 2022
- Winner of 2020 years Audience Award at the Feel Good short film festival by the Roses UK
Festivals
- Paris Film Award: Awarded Best First Time Filmmaker- Screen Dance Festeival/Dansmuseet
- Athens Video Dance Project December 2021
- 8andHalFilm Awards 2022 Rome: Awarded Best European First Time Filmmaker
- Stanley Film Awards UK 2022: Awarded Best European First Time Filmmaker
- Feel Good short film festival by the Roses UK: Winner
- Prague Biennale 2021
- New York City Indepandent Film Festival: Official Selection 2021
- ToBeAntwerp Festival 2021
- Hollywood International Golden Age FIlm Festival: Finalists
- Berlin Shorts Film Festival: Finalists
- Vancouver Independent Film Festival: Finalists
- Toronto Independent Film Festival: Finalists
- Stanley Film Awards UK: Semi-Finalists
- Sunday Shorts Film Festival Lisbon: Semi-Finalists
Support
This project was made in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Schweden and Goethe Institut Warschau, with support from the Swedish Artcouncil, thanks to The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Färgfabriken, Giljotin Stockholm and Alexander De Groot.Represented by
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Goethe Institut Warsaw:
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Moving Isolation - an artistic diary -
Trailer
1st meeting
Lockdown, April 2020
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, April 2020
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elena Kofiná, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Hui-Han Hu, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Paula Helander, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Anna Holter
Film editing: Toni Martin Dobrzanski, Anna Holter
Music: Toni Martin Dobrzanski
Outside eye: Johannes Schmid
2nd meeting
Lockdown, May 2020
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, May 2020
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Adrián Castelló, Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elena Kofiná, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Paula Helander, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Toni Martin Dobrzanski
3rd meeting
Lockdown, June-July 2020
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, June-July 2020
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elena Kofiná, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Hui-Han Hu, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Paula Helander, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Toni Martin Dobrzanski
4th meeting
Lockdown, September 2020
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, September 2020
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Elena Kofiná, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Hui-Han Hu, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Paula Helander, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Christian Heiss
5th meeting
Lockdown, November 2020
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, November 2020
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elodie Lavoignat, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Toni Martin Dobrzanski
6th meeting
Lockdown, February 2021
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, February 2021
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elodie Lavoignat, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Makoto Sakurai, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Christian Heiss
Music mix: Toni Martin Dobrzanski
7th meeting
Lockdown, April 2021
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
Lockdown, April 2021
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Alacoque Ntome, Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Makoto Sakurai, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Michael Heilrath
8th meeting
September 2021
Artistic team:Director: Anna Holter
September 2021
Artistic team:
Director: Anna Holter
Choreographers and dancers: Alacoque Ntome, Bernadette Leitner, Bernardo San Rafael, Carolina Czechowska, Chiharu Mamiya, Darwin Diaz, Elisa Marschall, Francesca Perrucci, Hayato Yamaguchi, Iza Szostak, Karen Bößer, Makoto Sakurai, Phaedra Pisimisi, Ruth Rebekka Hansen, Yuta Hamaguchi, Anna Holter
Film editing: Anna Holter
Music: Christian Heiss, Toni Martin Dobrzanski
Listen to San Francisco Museum of Modern Dance's Pod, MODPOD, as they speak to Anna Holter about Moving Isolation at:
"Keeping Creation Alive, The Story of Moving Isolation"
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