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'Looking East' is a set of four documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe, the second of which incorporates a live mixed-media Butoh dance performance by Pawel Dudzinski.
In cooperation with ICOS Community.
Films in the Looking East :
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Film: The Art Of Dissapearing / Sztuka Znikania (2013) + 2 Short Docs By Krzysztof Kieslowski_#1 Looking East Season
6 Apr 2014, 7 p.m.
Poland year 1980. A young, Haitian voodoo priest Amon Fremon s about to introduce the members of the Theatre of Sources to shamanic practices. A romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz is leading him to the underworld to help contact Polish ancestors. Trance-like cinematic essay combining dreamlike images with archival footage.
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Film: Incantatio (2009)+ Intuitive Butoh Dance Live Act _#2 Looking East Season
24 Apr 2014, 7 p.m.
The intuitive live butoh dance performance by Pawel Dudzinski will be accompanied by live music set featuring James Watts on vocal. Incantatio is a mystery play in the heart of a wild forest, where the artist reinvents a sacred ritual of the dance of darkness, called ‘ankoku butoh’.
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Film: Phnom Phen Lullaby (2011)_#3 Looking East Season
27 Apr 2014, 7 p.m.
An intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance inside of the wild Cambodian capital.
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Film: May 11 Elektro Moskva [2013]+ Free Jam_#4 Looking East Season
11 May 2014, 7 p.m.
Electro Moscow is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical.