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F I N N I S H S H O R T F I L M S 2 0 0 8
Dance fiction | 2007 |
35mm / DCI / Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 58’
Director, script, editing, music:
Joe Davidow
Cinematography: Tahvo Hirvonen
Choreography: Jorma Elo
Sound design: Markus Kahelin
Set design: Tanja Bastamow (3 D)
Costumes: Anne Jämsä
Actor: Kari Heiskanen
(Director of Dance)
Dancers: Jorma Elo,
Nancy Euverink, Vaslav Kunes
Producer: Claes Olsson
Production company:
Kinoproduction Oy
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK
Financing TV company:
YLE Co-productions
My Crazyness is my Love –
Impressions of Vaclav Nijinsky
[ H u l l u u t e n i o n r a k k a u t e n i –
e p i s o d e j a V a c l a v N i j i n s k i n e l ä m ä s t ä ]
The film tells of a Director of Dance, who is attracted to and obsessed with Vaclav Nijinsky, the
legendary Russian choreographer and dancer (1890–1950). While reading the Diary of Nijinsky,
the Director of Dance is rehearsing with his Dance Company his edition of Nijinsky’s famous
work, “The Faune”. Nijinsky wrote his Diary by hand during the 6 weeks he spent locked up in the
study of his house in Switzerland. The Diary ends when Nijinsky was forcibly taken to the Insane
Asylum, where he remained for over 20 years. Through Nijinsky’s Diary, the Director of Dance
is experiencing that sensation where all of the revelations he is reading about are brought to life
in his mind. Now he is learning about the deepest inner thoughts and feelings that Nijinsky has.
The Director of Dance has always been infatuated with Nijinsky, first through his admiration of
Nijinsky’s choreography’s and dance, and then through his realisation of the extraordinary similarities
between Nijinsky and Himself.
Joe Davidow
Joe Davidow (b. 1949) is an American director and composer,
who lives in Finland. As a director, he specialises in dance films.
In 1987–91 he directed dance programmes for TV, including
Obsessions (Pakkomielteitä), and for the Helsinki Festival a dance
film Moments (1991). He has also directed for Kinoproduction Oy
two dance films The Man Who Never Was (1997) and Hidden Passion
(2000). He has also composed the scores to these films.
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