Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

Saturday 18 September, 4.30pm
Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College
DANCING DREAMS
(CFF PG) (TANZTRÄUME)
Directors: Anne Linsel, Rainer Hoffmann. Germany 2010.
90 mins. German with English subtitles.
Revel to the power of dance as the world-class
choreographer Pina Bausch prepares a group
of youngsters for a performance of her work
Kontakthof. Bausch was one of the leading
figures in German modern dance and this
documentary captures her year-long project
with forty teenagers aged between fourteen and
eighteen. Bausch once said “I’m not interested
in how people move; I’m interested in what
makes them move.” Filmmakers Anne Linsel
and Rainer Hoffmann chart her interactions
with the young cast, mostly amateurs recruited
from schools in Wuppertal, and the youngsters’
increasing confidence in using their bodies
to perform on stage. DANCING DREAMS also
unwittingly documents one of Pina Bausch’s last
major projects. Sadly she succumbed to cancer
in June 2009.
Print Source: Soda Pictures
Sunday 26 September, 6.00pm
DAVID WANTS TO FLY
(CFF 15)
Director: David Sieveking. Germany/Austria/Switzerland 2010.
96 mins. English and German with English subtitles.
Aspiring filmmaker David Sieveking goes to
hear director David Lynch speak about his
passion for Transcendental Meditation (TM), a
practice developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
who became known for his time as guru to The
Beatles. Sieveking attends TM initiation to which
he takes flowers, fruits, a white handkerchief…
and €2,380. But after initial benefits his life
deteriorates. Sieveking’s doubts grow as he
delves deeper into TM, exposing an elitist,
corrupt business. Having stated, “I wanted to
make dark films like my idol, David Lynch. But I
was lacking the darkness”, Sieveking journeys
to extremely dark places to meet his inspiration
in this wonderful debut feature, a gripping
exploration of Lynch’s aesthetic and spiritual
practice that slyly pays homage to him, whilst
questioning the very core of his personality.
Print source: Autlook Films
Saturday 18 September Queen’s Building,
Emmanuel college | Sunday 19 September, 3.30pm
THE DESERT OF
FORBIDDEN ART
(Cert TBC)
Directors: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope. Russia/USA/
Uzbekistan 2010. 80 mins. English and Russian with English
subtitles.
Like a modern Robin Hood of the arts, penniless
artist Igor Savitksy made an audacious decision
during the Soviet Regime. He courageously
saved 40,000 illicit art works, which would have
otherwise been destroyed. Those treasures –
censored merely because they captured the
Revolution – escaped to the hidden corners
of Uzbekistan, where Savitksy formed Nukus
Museum, holding now “one of the most
remarkable collections of 20th century Russian
art”. High-end art residing in the poorest
of places is one of the paradoxes that the
film tackles. Told through the voices of Ben
Kingsley, Sally Field and Ed Asner, this inspiring
documentary draws from Savitsky’s diaries
and letters, and examines his invaluable legacy
through his fellow artists’ works and family
testimonies.
Print source: Courtesy of the filmmakers
Tuesday 21 September, 4.00pm
DESTINO: A
CONTEMPORARY
DANCE STORY (CFF PG)
Director: Caswell Coggins. UK 2010. 56 mins.
Shed your
inhibitions
with DESTINO, a
community dance
project which
brings to the
stage a mixture of
professional and
non-professional
dancers of all
abilities, ages and ethnicities. As is revealed,
the lead dancers of the project, Addisu Demissie
and Junaid Jemal Sendi, were working on the
streets of Addis Ababa just twelve years ago.
Now they front this collaboration between
Dance United and Sadler’s Wells performed by
140 amateur dancers, among them children and
pensioners, accompanied by music from the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In recognition
of their own journey, Junaid and Addisu intend
to change the lives of other disadvantaged
members of Ethiopian and British society.
I believe I can do something. I can change the
community, the country. I am an artist.
ADDISU DEMISSIE, principal dancer, Destino
Print source: Dance United
SHOWING WITH: THE ART OF
DOING NOTHING
Director: Richard Wyllie. UK 2010. 10 mins.
Three very different characters are followed
as they prepare and stand for their street
performances as human statues.
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