Welcome to this edition of the EIVV, where we have selected 20 works from the 864 submissions from all over the world.
Focus one Elena Muchnaya
We have discovered this year this artist that happens to create the choreographic ideas, hold the camera, do the editing and postproduction as well as the music of these original and profound works that are often filmed in natural sceneries and forgotten places.
(Re)creating the Body
Artificial Intelligence and Body Synthesis
Artificial Intelligence provides new and fascinating ways to blend reality and oneirism, and in 2024 the EIVV has selected for the first time works that use generative AI, with this blend of strangeness and unseen worlds.
Synthesizing new bodies
Diego Mac is already well known for his use of 3D animation to create new moving bodies, with realistic features and impossible movements in real life. Muriel Sago uses traditional techniques to superpose eyes and other features in this evolving face for video-performance.
Dance vs. Surroundings
Videodance, also known as screendance or cinedance, combines the language of cinema with dance. One of its main characteristics is that the filming takes place in a real location, with the dancer acting as a character within that space. The location holds significance, and the character has a reason to be there, interacting with the environment in a meaningful way. This differs from stage dance, even site-specific dance, where dancers do not need to justify their movements, and the location often serves merely as a backdrop, whether it is a traditional stage or an outdoor setting.
In this section, six different works explore various ways dancers interact with their environments, which can be familiar, oppressive, or disquieting.
![Blind Dreamers [•32°N 145°W•] - Sandra Greco](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OLYL7kTbrWo/maxresdefault.jpg)
The body in abstract spaces
Videodance can isolate the dancing body in a boundless abstract space, and the viewer can focus on the pure movement or the struggles of the isolated dancer.
Explorations
Screendance allows experimenting with movement, editing and sound.
| Project Title | Country | Directors |
| The inability to say no | Mexico | Begoña Malo, Dennise Figueroa |
| gEARS, a factory fairy tale | Italy | Carlo Magrì |
| Domestic Survival | Italy | Isobel Blank |
| Ecocide | Ukraine | Valeriya Koptseva |
| Slowly | France | Christophe Dachy |
| Desasir | Colombia | Daissy Pérez, Elizabeth Pérez |
| WINGS | Brazil | Diego Mac |
| gap | Russia | Elena Muchnaya |
| rev | Russia | Elena Muchnaya |
| mem | Russia | Elena Muchnaya |
| THE MIRROR | Spain | Francesca Catricalá |
| The Reverie | Philippines | Rei Cordero |
| Yellow Videodance | Mexico | Héctor Maya Requena |
| Epoch | Spain | Jose Oriek, Felipe Valera |
| IN | Israel | Michal Bratt, Amnon Houri |
| Colors | Iran | Milad Pahlavani, Mehdi Pahlavani |
| My self portrait | Argentina | Muriel Sago |
| Blind Dreamers [•32°N 145°W•] | France | Sandra Geco |
| unity of rupture | Russia | Victoria Okuneva |
| L’Envol | France | Vincent Moon |
360º videodance selection
An additional call for 360º videodance works to be watched with 360º glasses has been made, and Víctor Manuel Barbera has selected 4 works from the 11 submissions.
| Project Title | Country | Directors |
| Inner Shadows | Spain | Marta Chillón Marinas |
| Immanent dawn | Mexico | Nereo Zamítiz |
| Oscillate | United Kingdom | Paul McCann |
| Coordinates – 31 15’15.53 N, 24 15’30.53 W | Brazil | Thais de Almeida Prado, Angelo (VJ) Pixel, Eleonora Loner, Juliana Salvaia, Mauro Rubens |
The full list of selected videos, including the 360º videos.
