Screen.dance

30/04/2024

This Friday and Saturday Orkney, Scotland- The Pier Arts Centre will host the screening ‘Dancing on the Inside,’ a collection of dance films honouring the life and legacy of international award winning dance filmmaker Simon Fildes (1962-2021)

The programme includes the multi award winning film Six Solos, produced by GOAT Media and City Contemporary Dance Hong Kong.

Friday 3 May 6:30pm
Saturday 4 May 12:00pm

Admission is free, booking is required:

https://www.pierartscentre.com/

GO/AT
CCDC Dance Centre CCDC舞蹈中心

20/04/2024

Next Tuesday April 23- Edinburgh Greens will host a screening and discussion ‘Dancing on the Inside, the legacy of Simon Fildes works.’ The event will showcase Simon’s work as an editor, director, mentor, concept writer, performer and producer. Featuring his final film “Do you mind can I ask what happened…(to your legs)?

Held at Grassmarket Community Centre, Edinburgh, UK 7:30pm

https://members.greens.scot/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=178



On set in Hong Kong photo by Miranda Li

Dancers Yang Hao, Huen Tin-yeung, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Li Yong-jing, Gigi Yang and Wu Cheng-fang.

Film still from ‘ Do you mind…’ Tess Letham and Calum Barbour

Eyebolls
Edinburgh Green Party
cagoule.tv
Abby Warrilow Pilates & Dance
GO/AT

05/06/2022

THE late international award-winning Scottish filmmaker, producer and curator Simon Fildes is to be honoured at the RISE Dance North Scotland…

14/10/2021

Building on the success of our March 2021 Screen.dance festival edition which established our partnership with Citymoves Dance Agency, Aberdeen, we are

01/06/2021

Simon Fildes, filmmaker. Born 20 January, 1962. Died: 17 April 2021, aged 59

26/04/2021

Simon Fildes, Scotland’s international award-winning film-maker, artist, and curator, passed away on 17th April 2021 in Edinburgh after a brief battle with cancer. He was 59 years old. Simon was a creative force that shaped the visual arts multimedia landscape of Scotland and beyond through his interdisciplinary perspective. He was deeply loved and will be missed.

Simon is survived by his wife Wyn Pottratz; his daughters Eilidh, Izzy and Sylvia McPherson; his sisters Carolyn Henderson and Jenny Fildes; and his mother Leslie Fildes.

Simon’s funeral is a private affair for family and close friends. An event celebrating Simon’s life will be held on June 6 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The event will be live streamed for all to attend.


In lieu of flowers, please donate to Trees for Life in honor of Simon Fildes.

https://treesforlife.org.uk/support/plant-a-tree/

23/04/2021

An incredibly moving tribute to Simon Fildes from Dance North Scotland.

21/04/2021

Creative Scotland's tribute to Simon Fildes

'We were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Simon Fildes, a well known figure in the dance community with an international reputation for his work as an artist, curator and producer. Read the full message from our Head of Dance Paul Burns'

https://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2021/04/a-tribute-to-simon-fildes

We are very deeply saddened to hear of the death of Simon Fildes. Simon was a well known figure in the dance community with an international reputation for his work as an artist, curator and producer.

24/03/2021

Festival awards 2021 https://www.screen.dance/blog/2021/03/20/and-the-screen-dance-2021-awards-go-to/

Screen.dance 2021 Jury members Anna Clifford, Hayley Durward, Simon Fildes and lliyana Nedkova are pleased to announce all Screen.dance 2021 awards – four

20/03/2021

Another great episode from the screen dance podcast crew of The Motion Dance Collective – this time with Marlene Millar!

Tune in advance of the exclusive screening and Q&A of Marlene's latest screen dance Navigation as part of the European Cèilidh line up at Scottish Storytelling Centre: TODAY, 20 March 2021 at 19:30 GMT!

Book your European Cèilidh here: https://iliyananedkova.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/screen-dance/

💥 EPISODE 8 OF SEASON 2 ON THE MDC TALKS IS NOW LIVE 💥

This episode of The MDC Talks features Montreal filmmaker Marlene Millar, in conversation with Omari 'Motion' Carter, Anna Clifford and James Williams. Marlene is an internationally award-winning dance filmmaker, her creative partnerships include Mouvement Perpétuel (2001) alongside Philip Szporer and Migration Dance Film Project with Sandy Silva.

Marlene talks about the simplicity yet significance of work having a beginning, middle and end. She shares her experience of finding a deeper understanding of time, rhythm and pace from working with analogue film, as well as the true importance of the pre-production process. She also stressed the value in following through on an idea and taking creative chances. Additionally, Marlene touches on finding your creative partners in people you trust and feel comfortable to challenge, as well as the value of distribution and its ability to give your work a longer lifespan.

💫 Stay tuned for Part 2 with Marlene Millar!

Listen now on YouTube - https://youtu.be/IET2WKxv6rg

Also available on all podcast platforms!

19/03/2021

Great start of Akademi Dance Film Festival this morning with APOTHEOSIS by Akademi & The Motion Dance Collective – a pertinent example of screen dance reclaiming the gallery and museum space and context, in this case the British Museum.

We also love the 30 second breather between each film in the line up. So needed after a busy, back to back line up of our Screen.dance 2021. Each screen dance festival should follow suit and allow our eyes a wee rest in respect of each film in their line up.

What is more, Akademi Dance Film Festival is all free and available on demand for an extra 24 hours, so no excuse...

13/03/2021

https://www.screen.dance/screen-dance-2021-festival-screening-room/lets-chat-about-screen-dance-in-scotland/

Discussion facilitated by Hayley Durward and Iliyana Nedkova

11/03/2021

THE COUNTDOWN TO SCREEN.DANCE 2021 IS ON.

11/03/2021

A women stands, takes a breath and steps forward. We see blackness, she appears spinning, rotating and twisting. Suspended or has the floor fallen? Floor Falls…

07/03/2021

We are very pleased to announce that Omari Carter and Anna Clifford of The Motion Dance Collective will be hosting the Live Q&As following our Festival Launch with the Screen.dance 2021 UK Jury Awards Finalists on 11 March and the Artists Presentations as part of Let’s Hear it from the Artists on 12 and 13 March 2021.

No stranger to Screen.dance, the founder and Creative Director of the collective, Omari was the winner of our inaugural Screen.dance 2016 UK Jury Award, a festival presenter, workshop leader and a participant in our festivals ever since.

Watch some of the Screen.dance awarded films since 2016, including Omari’s At the End of the Block (2016) here: https://iliyananedkova.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/screen-dance/

Follow this link to book your free Screen.dance 2021 festival pass for our Festival Launch and choose from one of our day passes or opt for a full festival pass to ensure you will enjoy our three days packed with films, live Q&As and artists presentations here: https://www.screen.dance/blog/2021/03/07/the-motion-dance-collective-to-host-screen-dance-2021-live-qa/

We are very pleased to announce that Omari Carter and Anna Clifford of The Motion Dance Collective will be hosting the Live Q&As following our Festival

06/03/2021

International Women’s Day is on 8 March 2021 and we are asking where are the female filmmakers?

We have always strived for bridging the gender gap in the screen dance world, achieving 50/50 representation from the inception of our Screen.dance festival in 2016.

We have just crunched the numbers for our Screen.dance 2021 – 41 female and 26 male directors across all our competitive and non-competitive programme strands this year – this is 61% female directors of screen dance!

Erika Randall is only one of the 41 female directors. Her film Paula + Francesca (videostill here) is showing as part of Screen.dance 2021 International Jury Awards Finalists. Part 3: Staying In – Redefining the Incredible Indoors on 12 March 2021.

As our Screen.dance website grows we hope that we will continue to be a vital research tool including for female filmmakers, alongside Women Make Film resource celebrating 130 years of cinema by 183 female directors here: https://www.womenmakefilm.net/

It’s almost time to start watching. Get your front row seats booked for our Screen.dance 2021 screening room here. https://www.screen.dance/screen-dance-2021-festival-screening-room/

Our doors will be wide open from 11-13 March 2021!