SILENT FRAGMENTS

DANCE FILM | INSTALLATION

SILENT FRAGMENTS is an award winning dance film by and with Andrea Hackl who cherishes the potential of visual composition.

Inspired by the intrinsic connection between body and psyche, the film explores the human body as landscape formed by our psychology, emotions and memories. It dives into its inner primordial fluidity, an inner ocean that harbors a potential of healing, transformation and change.

This film is a very personal and intimate work of the artist who is very inspired by rituals, the theme of catharsis, transformation and empowerment. It is an intimate view into a moment of letting go, surrender and the transformations that becomes possible.

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"Silent Fragments is a work of great expressiveness; created through an intimate and simultaneously intense dialogue with the camera, the result is a work that, on the one side, enhances the potential of video as a medium and, on the other side, gives back an enormous tactile presence through the dancer's body, in an essential and intense choreography."
- jury of InShadow Festival
concept, choreography, performance: Andrea Hackl | Andrea Hackl Projects
music by Ivan Shopov
camera and editing: Andrea Hackl

produced in frame of residencies at MALAKTA Art Factory Aug 2018

The production was financially supported by the Austrian Embassy of Helsinki.

  • Andrea Hackl
    Director
  • Andrea Hackl Projects
    Producer
  • Malakta Art Factory
    Producer
  • Andrea Hackl
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Art film, Dance film, Dance, performance
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 30, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Finland
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ViDEOSKiN festival
    Whitehorse
    Canada
    November 10, 2018
    North American Premiere
  • Malakta Art Factory
    Malax
    Finland
    August 23, 2018
    European Premiere
  • TREnit!Ry Studios
    Tampere
    Finland
    November 30, 2018
  • Dance Days Chania
    Chania, Crete
    Greece
    July 28, 2019
  • POOL dance film festival Berlin
    Berlin
    Germany
    September 13, 2020
    Finland
  • InShadow Festival
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    December 16, 2020
    Portugal Premiere
    BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
  • CINEDANZA
    Modena
    Italy
    October 14, 2020
    BEST FILM
Director Biography - Andrea Hackl

Andrea Hackl is an independent visual artist / film maker & choreographer, based in Amsterdam.
She produces films, multidisciplinary performances and explores the format of audio visual installation. Hackl cherishes the alchemy between different disciplines. Having a background in dance & performance, her work embraces a visceral quality and often, the human body, in its presence and poetry, remains a main channel of exploration andf expression.

Her visual & performative work is being presented at festivals world wide; currently touring DREAMER – an interdisciplinary performance project featuring a 2 channel video installation; a poetic journey inspired by Buddhism and the Tao as well as our innate connection to nature, traveling through an organism of live performance and film. It’s a collaboration with the french saxophonist Antoine Viard. DREAMER has won the award for BEST INTERDISCIPLINARY LIVE PERFORMANCE at LensDans Festival Brussels 2023.

Themes of Freedom and Empowerment are central to her work that is often inspired by mythology, Buddhism as well as our intrinsic connection to nature. She often collaborates with musicians in her performances and, while working with an established structure, loves to use improvisation for the power of its immediacy. Hackl has been invited to artistic residencies & performing at festivals worldwide. She enjoys to travel, meet & work with local communities and, equally, to share her practice & exploration in form of training, workshops or masterclasses.

Her short films, eg.: BELE BELTZA, SILENT FRAGMENTS and LIGHT RISING have won awards as BEST FILMS and for BEST PERFORMANCE.. Visual work that she’s produced has been featured in art magazines such a Clic.he and received Honorable Mentions.

-> website: http://www.andreahackl.com

+ Instagram: andreahacklprojects

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