Animalz - Sergio Cruz
Animalz is an exuberant fantasy in which boys emerge from the sea, like the original amphibians, and colonise a forest, marking out their territory in a break-dance celebration of Nature and her feral sons.
The film takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes, where the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their energetic performances.
Animalz evokes ancient legends of wild children such as the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus and the Indian boy Mowgli who were raised in the wilderness by animals. While the work proposes the possibility of redemption through communion with our animal natures, it also offers a utopian antidote to the contemporary social reality that kids have no were to play- safely.
The film takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes, where the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their energetic performances.
Animalz evokes ancient legends of wild children such as the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus and the Indian boy Mowgli who were raised in the wilderness by animals. While the work proposes the possibility of redemption through communion with our animal natures, it also offers a utopian antidote to the contemporary social reality that kids have no were to play- safely.
Director
Sergio Cruz
Producer
South East Dance
Writer
Sergio Cruz
Camera
Sergio Cruz, Ed Cooper
Editor
Sergio Cruzz
Credits
Credits:
Director & editor: Sergio Cruz
Performers: b3- brighton youth dance company
Producer: Ed Cooper/ south east dance
Choreographer: JP Omari, Sergio Cruz
Camera operators: Ed Cooper, Marcin Gajewski and Sergio Cruz
Stills: Hanna Korhonen
Sound capture: Christos Fanaras
Sound design: Sergio Cruz, Christos Fanaras, Filipe Galante
Wardrobe: Alexandra Groover
Make-up: Nnaomi Saito, Tomoko Yamamoto
Production manager: Clea Smith, Ed Cooper
Co-production: channel4, south east dance; youth dance England, England arts council and screen south.
Director & editor: Sergio Cruz
Performers: b3- brighton youth dance company
Producer: Ed Cooper/ south east dance
Choreographer: JP Omari, Sergio Cruz
Camera operators: Ed Cooper, Marcin Gajewski and Sergio Cruz
Stills: Hanna Korhonen
Sound capture: Christos Fanaras
Sound design: Sergio Cruz, Christos Fanaras, Filipe Galante
Wardrobe: Alexandra Groover
Make-up: Nnaomi Saito, Tomoko Yamamoto
Production manager: Clea Smith, Ed Cooper
Co-production: channel4, south east dance; youth dance England, England arts council and screen south.
Language
No language
Duration
3:20
Released
Category
Edition
Program
Online premiere at the Streaming Festival 3rd edition 2008
+ ScreeningsExhibited at:
- 2006: premier on tv- channel 4 in the three minute wonder series, england.
- 2007: 53rd international short film festival, oberhausen, germany.
- 2007: independent film festival indielisboa, lisbon, portugal.
- 2007: indielisboa show case curated by mercês gomes and miguel valverde, paris, france.
- 2007: group show 11.472, london, england.
- 2007: film festival cineport, paraíba, brazil.
- 2007: xivª edition of portuguese cinema - caminhos do cinema português, coimbra, portugal.
- 2007: international art exhibition artexpo liquid room, ljubljana.
- 2007: 7th international festival videodance, athens and thessaloniki, greece.
- 2007: video-dance showcase of the 15th almada contemporary dance festival, portugal.
- 2007: festival images contre nature, marseilles, france.
- 2007: tv programme norma, chile.
- 2007: portuguese young creators exhibition jovens criadores, lisbon, portugal.
- 2007: international dance film festival dança em foco, rio de janeiro, brazil.
- 2007: exhibition space for screen-based public art, film and video bigger picture, manchester, england.
- 2007: international dance film festival frame, porto, portugal.
Animalz won the prize of best short film in the international video festival tom de video 2007, Portugal; the prize of best experimental film in the youth film festival fest, Portugal and was nominated for the award for international students, ismaf award 2007 (media art festival focus), Netherlands.
