October 2009
I have set up a new video channel specializing in my vblogs and screendance http://vimeo.com/creationeditor .
October 2009 & Sept 2009
My two films 'The Ulitmate Video Dance EVER' and 'Nordic Visuals' will be screening at the First Annual UMove Online Videodance Festival with an opening launch party and screening at the Tank in New York City on October 4th.
Aug 2009
I performed 'Growing Pains' by director Jill Skulina at The Arches Fringe Scratch event at St Stephen Church...here is a short excerpt:
August 2009
The 2nd Dance Plus documentary presents the Dutch artist and performer Arthur Elsenaar who creates Algorithmic Facial Choreographies using controlled electric currents. As the human face is controlled by a computer instead of the brain, it can be made to perform in unexpected ways, bringing together dance and technology in the most direct way imaginable. It challenges the traditional notion of facial expression as a conveyor of emotion and aims to develop a choreographical facial language.
July 2009
Title:
"One Step - Hickle-Dee-Pickle-Dee"
The following video has been inspired
by The
Scotsman report 'One giant gaffe for mankind'
about the Nasa taping over the original footage of
1969 Moon landing.
Produced for the Dance Films Association,
Inc's
competition 'What moves you? 48 Hour Challenge'.
17th - 19th July 2009
Brief:
The four performers are elderly people who have
dementia trying to
remember watching the
first steps on the moon by Neil Armstrong.
This video draws an analogy between
losing memory and lost visual documentation
through words and movements.
find more out about it in my blog!Discovery Networks shoots piece on Mutsugoto
A Los Angeles-based crew from the Discovery Science Channel spent the day in Edinburgh filming a piece on Mutsugoto that will air later in 2009 in a series called "THE FUTURE OF...". Interviews with project collaborators Tomoko Hayashi and Stefan Agamanolis will appear within the piece. Edinburgh-based dancer/actors Jack Webb and Sabine Klaus were also filmed for the piece, taking on the role of a couple separated by distance that uses Mutsugoto.
May 2009: for all my Scotland based friends: TRENCH is screening at BIG in Falkirk which is a very exciting event.
Check
out the photogallery for moves09!
A_WAY_AWAY is screening at Women in Film & TV Festival in Vancover, BC.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!!! It is January 2009 and my videos A_WAY_AWAY and TRENCH are screening at CROSSBREEDS in Vienna, Austria.
I undertook a two days screendance workshop with the inspiring Douglas Rosenberg in October 2008. The workshop was organised by Karen Wood from the Dancehouse in Glasgow.
Creation Editor Sabine Klaus is now Content Partner with Dance-Tech.net
I also just returned from EMPAC - the Experimental Media Performance & Arts Centre in Troy where I saw amazing shows for the opening, met interesting people and I kept a VideoBlog of all of this so it is now online for you to view. And check out http://empac.rpi.edu/
I just signed a three years contract to screen and distribute A_WAY_AWAY on the US Dance Broadcast Channel Tendu TV. Currently, it is only available in USA but you can get soon a DVD download of A_WAY_AWAY from Amazon.com. Tendu TV shows interesting new high-quality dance videos and it does have some impressive credentials--Jay Franke from Lar Lubovitch Dance and Andrea Weber from Merce Cunningham are both on the board for the project. TenduTV launched as a channel on leading video portals, including TidalTV (www.tidaltv.com) and Sling.com in September 2008. click here to go to TENDU TV
I was lucky to be at the right time in New York to meet the dance critic and editor of the book 'Envisioning Dance on Film and Video' Elizabeth Zimmer. She curated the Kinetic Cinema evening that is run by Anna Brady Nuse. A very inspiring night, click here to find out more.
has been doing really well and was featured in the Edinburgh Evening News and on the Scottish Screen website as well as it received a double-spread page in the Scottish Broadcast Magazine Roughcuts. You can download the article as pdf and find it on page 36 & 37.
Trench: War Made on a £30 Budget Edinburgh-based filmmaker Sabine Klaus shows how to get a cinematic look on a zero budget. In April 2008 she teamed up with dance duo Company Chameleon to produce the promo Trench for their upcoming show Rites. After studio rehearsals, storyboarding and a recce, the trailer-style video was filmed outside Penicuik at night with the £30 budget spent on torches, petrol and energy bars. Director of Photography and Editor, Klaus, shot the entire project on a Canon HV20 and then finalised it in Final Cut Pro with special effects added in from After Effects.The 4-minute video premiered at the IAM-Digital Event in Edinburgh in May.
my latest video dance TRENCH co-created with Company Chameleon premiered @ I AM Digital - The Voodoo Sessions - Sat 31st May 9pm....After the successful event in February 08 I AM presents a night of international exposition, collaboration, and performance produced with emerging and established artists from Scotland, South Africa, England, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Belgium & Spain. The "innovative" program of digital art, dance performance and live music aims to promote discovery, discussion and relaxation with like-minded people in an informal environment.
The night encompasses the work of emerging and established artists and bands,
the collaborations of which were in many cases instigated in Scotland. I AM
has produced this night of lateral exposition as an ongoing development where
we intend to add to the landscapes and spaces we find ourselves in, as well
provide an innovative platform for exposition, performance and audience interaction
(because in fact people are art).
full info on http://iam-digital.com/events.php & how to get there on http://www.thevoodoorooms.co.uk/events.php
WATCH & VOTE for TRENCH on Virgin Media Shorts
WOW!!! Lee
Archer's Travel Plans video won FIVE AWARDS at the 48
Hours Film Project in Edinburgh including Audience Award and Best Acting
“Travel Plans” by Brazilliant
Actors Jimmy Chisholm, Mary Ann Reid, Sabine Klaus and Rachel Jackson
Congratulations, Lee!!!!
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http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk and click here for my personal summary of the event
A_WAY_AWAY has also been selected to be shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout England as part of the programme specially curated by moves08 for this platform. It will play 5 times a day over two weeks including the week of the festival.