Exeter Dance International Film Festival

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30/10/2024

Check out these fabulous photos from last weekend,aken by our amazing photographer Will Farmer !

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28/10/2024

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who attended this year's EDIFF last weekend THE HALL EXETER or online!

What a fantastic time we had celebrating such amazing work! Thank you to everyone who came along to the event in-person or online, everyone that submitted work, and everyone who contributed towards the festival!

Congratulations again to all our award winners!

Here are some initial highlights from last weekend - official pix from our photographer coming soon! Stay tuned for updates about all things EDIFF going forwards, and visit ediff.co.uk

24/10/2024

Do you want to revisit some of the films from last weekend's EDIFF? Perhaps you couldn't make it, but still want to join in - we've got you covered!

Head over to https://indiechannel.tv/products/ediff-2024-virtual-festival ONLY UNTIL 27TH OCT, and view all this year's films, and some exclusive content for just £5!

23/10/2024

Thanks for the lovely shout-out Brighton Rocks International Film Festival!

If you missed the superb Exeter Dance International Film Festival, you can now catch some Dance Film gems until 27 October! Check out this beautiful online festival format to boot! https://www.indiechannel.tv/.../ediff-2024-virtual-festival

22/10/2024

Check out this fab tutorial our amazing Marketing Assistant has created of how to join us for the Online Festival - running until 27th Oct! A bargain at just £5!
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22/10/2024

Part 2 of our interview with !

5. What did you learn about yourself through the process of making this film?

Above all, I was able to get back to the more spontaneous way of working that I'd been able to do on my very first no-budget films when I was a student. It did me a lot of good to make a free artistic gesture, without the heavy constraints of fiction or the constraints of a big team.

6. The dance matches your words so perfectly. Which came first: the dance or the words?

It's an interesting question because the choreographer took Yves Klein's words as the starting point for his choreography, whereas I was inspired first by the dance and then decided to put words on it. In the end, it was a back and forth of poetic words and gestures that inspired us.

7. Could you tell us something about Le Wonder artistic collective that you work with?

I stayed in Le Wonder for two years? It's a collective that has given me a lot artistically and humanely. The studio was founded in 2013. It is run by and for artists and occupies large disused complexes in the Paris suburbs and artists living or working in it shape it to their own image. It was with them that I exhibited my work for the first time and had the freedom to make take more radical artistic actions.

8. What are you working on now?

I'm writing my first feature film, which revives my love of science fiction, and for which I've joined a writing residency. I'm also continuing to edit short films for other directors. It's always intellectually rich to edit other people's films and write your own projects.

22/10/2024

FILMAKER INTERVIEW

We loved interviewing about their creative process and EDIFF entry SENSIBLE!

1. What is your name, age and where do you make your work?
My name is Axel Chemin, I'm 27. I live in the Paris suburbs, in Colombes.

2. What inspired you to start filmmaking? And this film in particular?
Good question! Looking back, I think I started making movies to try and find answers to the questions I have about society, inequalities or the room we give to technology in our lives. And from there, I started thinking about what could be missing in terms of images and representation. The more I make movies, the more I feel like it’s a necessity to widen the scope of horizons of spectators, in terms of aesthetics and politics.

This film started off as a collaborative project I had with the choreographer Lohan Jacquet, with whom I had worked on my final year film (when I was studying at La Femis higher education film school), which was a science fiction movie. We had created a world where cellphones had ceased to exist and where you just had to gesture in the air without touching anything to interact with anything digital. Lohan came back to me, asking me if I wanted to work on that project which was to be a visual capture of a show. We decided to take the project one step further and make it an arts film.

3. What inspired the beautiful text?
The text comes from the writings of Yves Klein. He was an artist who wrote about his practice and his philosophy. I read all his writings and made a collage to create a text that is equivocal, highly poetic and ultimately quite personal.

4. How did the end result differ from what you set out to express/create?
It's a film that wasn't written before it was shot. We had some ideas for shots, but we assumed that the writing would be done during the editing. I studied to become an editor, so I wasn't afraid of that. In terms of the initial idea, nothing really differs from the ideas we had set ourselves.

Stay tuned for part 2!

21/10/2024

Following on from the fantastic time we had with you all last weekend at EDIFF, we're pleased to announce that our ONLINE FESTIVAL is NOW LIVE!

Join us online from 21st - 27th October! For JUST £5 the online festival will feature all the the theatrical programmes from EDIFF 2024's theatrical screenings will be available as well as 13 online exclusives!

Watch at your own convenience! To join in, head over to https://www.indiechannel.tv/products/ediff-2024-virtual-festival

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18/10/2024

We are so excited for EDIFF THE HALL EXETER this Saturday and Sunday!

Tickets are still available throughout the weekend via ticketsource.co.uk/exeter-dance-international-film-festival so come along and join the in the fun!