The corners, slopes, dead ends, and curves of the Tallinn Cruise Terminal prompted us to ponder the dilemmas of the achievement society. Should we push ourselves into a box, or should we dare to be wrong?
Baltic premiere
The choice of the filming site was guided more by its location and function than by the architecture of the pool and its surroundings. The building is designed to be naturally and regularly flooded by the Atlantic Ocean tides. The film incorporates natural elements and the aim of the author is to depict a harmony between the body, the site's architecture, and the powerful nature of the location.
World premiere
Celebrating a flower's journey from seed to full bloom, and exploring these parallels of personal growth through movement.
Baltic premiere
An experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation.
Baltic premiere
Built in an old forest by the sea, Arvo Pärt Centre creates a sensation of being both inside and outside at the same time: the building’s transparent glass walls make it seem almost non-existent. This concept is also the main idea of the film shot in this centre: it is hard to say whether the dancer is inside or outside, whether it is her dancing or rather the nature moving around, and, last but not least, whether the architectural structure exists or is barely a dream or an illusion.
Baltic premiere
In a surreal dance video, a dancer is melting into a landscape of palm trees, rocks and ocean waves.
Baltic premiere
Your body is your own private culture. Everything you have ever experienced is stored inside the body. You are an archive, a conduit of experience and change. Embracing that change with empathy is what makes us human.
World premiere
At night, a middle-aged janitor transforms the silent halls of a theatre building into his own personal stage, with only one audience: the watchful security guard.
World premiere
In a world that has changed, a creature longs to merge with the environment that was once familiar, searching for a deeper sense of belonging. Through the fluidity of movement, the austerity of architecture and the power of sound and image, the film unfolds as a visual poem - both apocalyptic and hopeful.
Baltic premiere
The Ukrainian dancer Mariia Yakobchuk (based in Berlin) and the Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai (based in Kyiv) chose this place for their project intentionally. The Vilnius Palace of Marriage, opened in 1974, is highly reminiscent of Soviet-era modernist architecture in Ukraine. Mariia’s dance represents her emerging womanhood in a space traditionally meant for the initiation ritual of two people.
The film deploys tensely expressive movement in a darkly playful take on the dynamics of seeing and being seen. Dark humor, sarcastic imagery and expressive choreography conveyed a unique atmosphere to color the interactions between the dancers and their setting.
The Riga Circus Arena becomes a living, breathing entity, echoing the joys and sorrows of a love that is at once fragile and fierce. Each movement, each gaze, each touch within the arena's historic walls symbolises the raw, unspoken dialogue between two souls. Through the synthesis of choreography and architecture, we explore how love, much like a circus, is a symphony of chaos and beauty, where harmony and discord coexist in a delicate, breathtaking balance.
An analogy between the modern human being, living in mass cities, and the phenomenon of the circle of death - observed in nature with ants.