Note from the Jurors:
“This film creates unlikely partnerships between moving frames and paper images to explore a range of important questions related to memory and perception of dance, how dance is created, and who or what is dancing. The film’s creator, Mariam Eqbal, acts as a Muybridge for our times, exploring not only how movements may be generated through contemporary image technologies, but also, what occurs between the frames. As a result, Choreography for the Scanner is a work engaged with the multiple histories of film, dance, and visual practices upon which screendance is built, whilst creating a new aesthetic experience of dance film that requires no prior knowledge of the genre to appreciate it.
Choreography for the Scanner is a daring movie and its innovative concept shines through. Videodance is the site where choreography and filmmaking meet but it is also the place where it is possible to dance the impossible. With skillful direction, the filmmaker creates a dance that prescinds the body of a dancer in movement. She makes use of static images of a ballerina to create a dance based on the illusion of movement in-between frames…and makes a ‘glitch dance’ emerge that is only possible on the screen. All these elements make me emphatically cast my vote for this movie so that it becomes this years award winner. “
Source: Short Film Winners of LIFF29- in Hull | Leeds International Film Festival