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Contact Impromptu

This piece explores the movement and forms of human bodies in a contact dance improvisation context. The image is stylized to outline and silhouette movement and its traces in space and time.

The original material was recorded at a contact dance jam session during the Contact Dance International Film Festival in Toronto.

  • Blas Payri
    Director
  • Paul Lewis
    Key Cast
  • Irene Alvarez Coto
    Key Cast
  • Contact Dance Film Festival Jam Participants, Toronto
    Key Cast
  • Blas Payri
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    videodance, videoart, screendance
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Blas Payri

Blas Payri is a sound and image artist, and he explores the creative possibilities of screendance with the integration of music with movement, image processing and editing.
He is a professor of Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), specializing in sound and image analysis and postproduction.

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