4
4 is an experimental short film featuring music & dance that brings the audience to a research space to identify the source of balance and proportions in the combined art forms. Two pianists and two dancers travel together in a retro-futuristic quest for knowledge through pulse and rhythm, creating a progressive and hypnotic piece, and placing the piano as a common operating table for their interaction. The music features extended piano techniques in an intense, minimalist score.
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Mariana PalaciosDirector
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Adrián del ArroyoDirector
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Mariana PalaciosProducer
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Stream MovementProducer
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Adrián del ArroyoChoreography
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Mariana PalaciosKey Cast"Music"
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Juan J. OchoaKey Cast"Music"
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Sabine GroenendjikKey Cast"Dance"
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Benjamin BehrendsKey Cast"Dance"
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Anders LarssonDoP
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Mia KaasalainenDoP Assistnats
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Jessica SkogsbergDoP Assistnats
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Juan J OchoaMusic
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Mariana PalaciosMusic
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Peter HeinFilm editor
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Peter HeinColour grading
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Attila UrbanColour grading
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Daniel JamesGraphics
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Magnus WindoSound engineer
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Pau EscutiaMix & Master
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Agnes DuvanderHair & Make-up
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Project Type:Experimental, Music Video, Short
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Genres:Mucis, Dance, Sreendance, Dancefilm
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Runtime:11 minutes 47 seconds
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Completion Date:March 22, 2020
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Production Budget:10,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Sweden
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Country of Filming:Sweden
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Shooting Format:Digital / DCP
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Encuentro para Cinéfagos
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
September 21, 2020
Southamerican premiere
BEST DANCE FILM & BEST MUSIC -
Marquee TV
United Kingdom
August 2, 2020
Online TV premiere
Marquee TV Arts featured short dance films 2020 -
Screen.Dance - Scotland's Festival of Dance on ScreenScottland
United Kingdom
June 19, 2020
Scottish premiere
AWARD FINALIST -
GIMFA - Gralha International Monthly Film Awards
Brazil
February 24, 2021
BEST SHORT FILM EXPERIMENTAL, BEST SOUNDTRACK -
Athens International Monthly Art Film FestivalAthens
Greece
November 10, 2020
Greece premiere
Honorable mention & Award winner -
Dance Camera WestLos Angeles
United States
January 30, 2021
Finalist -
London International Web & Shorts Film Festival (UK)London
United Kingdom
February 6, 2021
Semi-finalist -
MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL
Mexico
September 10, 2020
Mexican premire
Official selection -
Thessaloniki Cinedance International
Greece
September 25, 2020
Official selection -
Moving Images videodance festivalNicosia
Cyprus
January 9, 2021
Official selection -
SHORT to the PointBucharest
Romania
December 30, 2020
Romanian premiere
Official selection -
DanzaTTack, Festival Internacional de CineDanzaTenerife
Spain
October 2, 2020
Official selection -
International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performanceValencia
Spain
October 23, 2020
Official selection -
InShadowLisboa
Portugal
November 15, 2020
Portuguese premiere
Official selection
In the last years, Mariana Palacios has developed a very ambitious project in the form of a film trilogy, in which she aims to unify music and dance with the cinematographic language. She is the director, producer, performer, and composer of her films, collaborating with a wide range of international artists.
The first two pieces, SERES (2016) and 4 (2020) have been presented in international dance film festivals around the world with great reviews. In her films, she addresses different music and dance genres and how they interplay, in a taking-and-giving egalitarian way. Mariana decontextualizes the piano as a concert instrument and presents it in different sceneries, experimenting with its projection. Mariana sets to build three types of symbiosis between music & dance: the instinctive in SERES, the physical in 4, and the mental in the third film of the trilogy. It has been through these recent work processes when Mariana has reached her potential as an artist by creating “visual music art”.