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The three oddest words

"The three oddest words" is a creation of a dance film based on the poem by Polish Nobel Wislawa Szymborska (Nobel Prize in Literature 1996). The three words described in the poem ("Future", "Silence" and "Nothing") were turned into three choreographic scenes, each one set in a different space and location and performed by different women dancers.

  • Eva Campos Suárez
    Director
  • Marta Kosieradzka
    Writer
  • Marta Kosieradzka
    Choreography
  • Adriano Fontana
    Music
  • Inez Verhille
    Key Cast
    "Future"
  • Marta Kosieradzka
    Key Cast
    "Silence"
  • Anna Tytus
    Key Cast
    "Nothing"
  • Eva Campos Suárez
    Editor
  • Marie-Louise Wilderijckx
    Special thanks to
  • P.A.R.T.S. Summer School
    Special thanks to
  • i-fitness Antwerpen
    Special thanks to
  • Wislawa Szymborska Foundation
    Permission rights of the poem
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Trzy słowa najdziwniejsze
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    dance, poetry, dancefilm, screendance
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Belgium
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Eva Campos Suárez

I started at an artistic highschool and continued studying Fine-Arts in the University of Barcelona (2009-2013). In this period, I had the chance to go as an Erasmus exchange student to the University of Rennes 2, where I learnt a lot of new disciplines like cinema, interactive art, multimedia projects and others.

After 4 years of work and study, I discovered what I really like: screendance. I also had to find out how to adapt it to my style.

I decided to travel to Brussels (Belgium) where I got international experience and made friends. At first, I started as a freelance photographer and videographer with the choreographer Marie Martinez as my first contact. After this, a whole new world opened in front of me: dance, performance, theater and circus disciplines, mixed or not. I discovered rooms/halls where the presentations of artistic projects took place and where I could contact the artists. There I met a lot of international artists and I learned plenty of new concepts.

In that journey, loads of new ideas came to me and I decided to start working on them when I met the choreographer, filmmaker and dancer Ana Cembrero Coca (at that time, in La Ignorancia). At the same time, I encountered the choreographer and dancer Marta Kosieradzka. Thanks to her, I could direct my first short films.

Then I found my own way of making dance film. I still continue collaborating closely with Ana and Marta and I hope to keep making projects with them even if I came back to Spain

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Director Statement

MARTA KOSIERADZKA's Statement (Choreographer):

The poetry of Wislawa Szymborska leaves questions without giving precise answers and triggers the mind and imagination to look at everyday subjects in a new way. It is also very sober and simple in its form and because of that I see a possibility in it to connect it to dance and movement creating a bridge between those two art forms.

The words, which are very defined and have a lot of connotations, are transformed into an abstract and poetic language of dance which brings the words and their meaning into a different context. The choreography is strongly connected to the locations where the scenes were shot, the movement is defined by the space and the context it brings meaning to the dance.

The music was composed specially for the film to create three different landscapes accompanying dance and visual images appearing in the story.

It’s a short, strong and compact visual interpretation of the poem in a collaborative project between three art disciplines: dance, film and music.