Context.Film is a film program of the Context.Diana Vishneva Festival that supports the contemporary dance scene for 10 years now.
The founder of the festival is Diana Vishneva, a world-famous dancer, who performed in ballets staged exclusively for her by John Neumeier, Ohad Haharin, Martha Graham, Pina Bauch, and others. In 2005–2017, she was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
For the last 10 years Context Festival manifests the pursuit of knowledge – the knowledge of dance, diversity of styles and cultures, and inner freedom.
Our festival believes that dance and film are connected inseparably: the ability to preserve our emotions and convey them subtly and accurately, and movement as one of the fundamental ways to create and act.
For the 10th anniversary year Context.Film decides to include a short film section to the selected and curated film screenings of the program. The festival provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary artists and their teams to present their work to the general public, receive professional evaluation and be presented on the big screen. We want to use our platform to discover and promote filmmakers, artists, and choreographers, who create using both the mediums - dance and film, and share their work with all the festival goers and fans.
We invite films, music and experimental videos up to 15 minutes in length, in which dance is embodied using various film language tools and hybrid forms of screen storytelling.
UPDATE: Context.Film has started It's live screenings at The Pioner movie theater and theater of Tretyakov gallery on Dec 2. The upcoming screenings are: Dec 8 - at the Angleter cinema and Lenfilm movie theater, Dec 9 - Perm, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Nizhniy Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok movie theatres. Online screenings start on Dec 19, stay tuned for the link.
Film and dance critics, choreographers, eminent experts in the field of contemporary dance, will review the program compiled by the curators.
By the end of the festival, finalists will receive detailed professional reviews of 1-2 pages.
The panel is TBA.