Experiencing Interruptions?

CRUNCH TIME

"ℂℝ𝕌ℕℂℍ 𝕋𝕀𝕄𝔼 is a challenge, a provocation, a joyful mutiny. It is a chaos to come and yet already here where bodies are nothing but momentum and dance a cry of resistance."

In the frenetic world of Crunch Time, a sudden explosion propels bodies into a frantic race against the clock. In haste they rush headlong, some fall only to rise again while others collide in accidental encounters that oscillate between shock and embrace.
Driven by a raw, insatiable and contagious energy they relentlessly push back their individual limits to forge a collective force. In perfect symbiosis they then burn with audacity to conquer urgency with grace.

In the frenzy of the modern world where performance, productivity and efficiency reign supreme, CRUNCH TIME plunges us into the very heart of the emergency and questions our ability to unite to stand firm and cope with the pressure.

  • Chloé Beillevaire
    Director
  • Cie La Teneur
    Producer
  • Carla Assie
    Key Cast
  • Bharath Yadav 
    Key Cast
  • Britta Trankler
    Key Cast
  • Constança Jesus
    Key Cast
  • Uhaina Montet
    Key Cast
  • Rachel Imperial 
    Key Cast
  • Juliette Dutreuil
    Key Cast
  • Lou Grivac 
    Key Cast
  • Leoni Eibes 
    Key Cast
  • Eléa   Guilloteau
    Key Cast
  • Béatriz Pereira
    Key Cast
  • Lizi Manisa
    Key Cast
  • Lola Saint-Gilles
    Key Cast
  • Joao   Fonseca
    Key Cast
  • Lisa Poirier 
    Key Cast
  • Filipa Baltazar 
    Key Cast
  • Claudio Costa 
    Key Cast
  • Clara Nogué
    Key Cast
  • Mafalda Faria 
    Key Cast
  • Natalie Ko
    Key Cast
  • Sam Yuen
    Key Cast
  • Garance Bergeonneau 
    Assistant director
  • Isis Marksteder 
    Camera operator
  • Lisa Poirier
    Camera assistant
  • Runa Marie Dubrow
    Editor
  • Elea Guilloteau
    Technical assistant
  • Rachel Imperial 
    Technical assistant
  • Flora Spiga 
    Technical assistant
  • LTIR - Christophe Franco Rogelio
    Music / Composer
  • Performact Intensive Course
    Partnership
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Fiction, court-métrage, dancefilm
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Europe Music Video Awards
    Košice
    Slovakia
    August 30, 2024
    Award winner of the "Best Choreography"
  • Interfaccia digital
    Pesaro
    Italy
    October 12, 2024
    Semi-finalist
  • SIFF - Serbest International Film Festival
    Chișinău
    Serbia
    September 5, 2024
    Semi-Finalist
  • Gjon Mili Video Art Festival
    Korçë - Dhërmi - Manhattan
    Albania
    November 15, 2024
    Official sélection
  • Cinedanza festival
    Modena
    Italy
    October 20, 2024
    Official sélection
  • POP SHOCK Music Video Film Festival
    los angeles
    United States
    July 25, 2026
Director Biography - Chloé Beillevaire

ℂ𝕙𝕝𝕠𝕖 𝔹𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕖 - Choreographer & director
Chloé Beillevaire is a French choreographer and performer. After graduating from the CNSMD in Lyon, she developed a wide range of stage experiences in France, notably working with Olivier Dubois, and later in Belgium with Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, where she refined her own artistic voice through a choreographic language infused with theatricality.
She then continued her career as a performer while further exploring transdisciplinary practices, working with Backsteinhaus Produktion in Germany as well as with Christophe Rhules and Julien Cassier from the documentary theatre company GDRA.
Alongside her stage work, she directed the music videos DÉRIVE for composer LTIR (Chris Franco) and RADIANCE for the German band Perigon_gone_on.
In 2021, driven by the desire to advocate for an accessible form of contemporary dance—removed from often abstract or overly conceptual perceptions—she founded the company La Teneur. Through this platform, she develops hybrid projects that bring together dance, theatre, and performance.
Since 2019, she has been a guest choreographer each year at the professional training program Performact in Portugal. In collaboration with the students, she creates group pieces and dance films exploring themes of disobedience and the hyperactivity of the contemporary world, continuing in this context her collaboration with composer LTIR through the dance films Crunch Time and Jatso.

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Director Statement

The short film "Crunch Time" is the result of a passionate collaboration between the choreographer Chloé Beillevaire, the composer LTIR and a talented team of twenty-five performers from the Performact intensive course.
Completed in a record time of ten days, this lightning project came to life in the charming town of Torres Vedras, Portugal. With no financial backing but boundless determination, each team member poured their heart and soul into sculpting this adventure. They used their ingenuity to bring Chloé Beillevaire's vision to life, turning every challenge and constraint into an opportunity for creativity.
At the core of this project pulsates the quintessence of "Crunch Time": the irresistible pull of urgency, the passionate longing to collectively plunge into the uncharted, and a unified dedication to unleash an artistic outcry.

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