Simon Fildes

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Thank you to my dear friends and colleagues from around the world for this. ❤️

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It was an honour to be asked to be on the jury panel for the 2020 Creative Edinburgh awards. Choosing winners from the short list was no easy task but the panel was on the whole were unanimous in their agreement with the choices made. https://www.creative-edinburgh.com/articles/creative-edinburgh-awards-2020-the-winners well done to everyone, what a fantastically creative city I live in!

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Another chat with me. talking with Creative Scotland. 

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The Motion Dance Collective Season 2: Episode 6 brings world renowned screendance artist Simon Fildes into The MDC Talks conversation with Omari 'Motion' Carter and Anna Clifford.  Simon is an international award-winning film-maker, artist, curator and teacher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Simon; a self-proclaimed 'daydreamer', talks about the evolution of terminology in the screendance world, his connection to music and a desire to make art that inspires feeling.  He highlights the importance of making mistakes and giving yourself permission to fail in order to explore your own voice.  We shared our opinions on the value of watching other artists work and allowing yourself to have an opinion.  Simon also discussed some of the common trends in screendance and the impact Covid-19 is currently having on the screendance industry. 

 Simon Fildes: https://www.fildes.work/ http://www.go-at.co.uk/ https://www.screen.dance/ 

 References: 'Pace' - https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/w... 'There is A Place' - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thereisapl... "Move on up! The most joyful dance clips to raise the spirits" article with Richard Alston - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/202... Lucinda Childs - https://youtu.be/zW40Su5m0rI motiondancecollective.com 

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A short film I edited for Maria Craig called Still Dancing, is starting  to have a life on the film festival circuit. Catch it if you can!

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I did a two hour masterclass and tutorial for a group in Buenos Aires and beyond organised by Videodanza BA and LOIE . I think it went well judging by the feedback.

“Ayer hermosa clase con el querido colega Simon Fildes como invitado en "Videodanza, una danza imposible". . Tema: banda sonora + edición en videodanza. . Agudizando los sentidos . . Organizan: Festival Internacional de Videodanzaba LOÏE. Revista de danza, performance y nuevos medios. . . . #videodanza #screendance #art #film #cine #experimentalfilm

amazing class! thanks Simon, your provocations are still resonating here. Notions, ideas that instigate and move me.“

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Ive been awarded grant funding  from the  @CreativeScots #createinclusion scheme towards a new film. "Do You Mind Can I Ask What Happened... (To Your Legs?)"   https://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2020/07/create-inclusion 

It’s a dance film that celebrates life with positive energy and good humour whatever it throws at you. 

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Trio For A Quartet is screening as part of this programme.

This month Rogue Dancer is offering something a little upbeat in this very isolated time we are all experiencing together.  Please join us for the FilmFest by Rogue Dancer:  JOYful Edition JULY 23rd – AUGUST 3rd.

https://roguedancer.org

https://www.facebook.com/RogueDancerJournal/ 

Featured Filmmakers:Michelle Koppl (USA)Keely Song & Scott Cook (USA)Larissa Britton (UK)Shon Kim (Republic of KOREA)Didier Mulleras (FRANCE)Susan Toni (USA)Margaret Wiss (USA)Clotilde Rullaud (FRANCE)Hanna-Mari Ojala (FINLAND)Marta Renzi (USA)Kassandra Bursch-Gupta (USA)Austin Warren Coats (USA)Juel D. Lane (USA)Naomi Lofchie (USA)Diego Salterini, Allyn Ginns Ayers & Hannah Baumgarten (USA)Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş & Justin S.E. Park (USA)Jessica Gomula-Kruzic (USA)Kim Brooks Mata (USA)Paulo Accioly (BRAZIL)Simon Fildes (UK)Justin Dominic (USA)Steve Woods (IRELAND)

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How The Earth Must See Itself | Loie

An Appreciation

An article I recently wrote. Now published on line in Loie digital magazine. It is an interesting intersection with “Coire Ruadh” as both films were shot in the same location about 4 years apart.

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https://www.bestiasdanzantes.com  "Coire Ruadh" is being screened in this programme from Santiago Chile. #Fauna [july 16 - 19. On line ] SUSPENDED Desires on Hold is a reflection on this time without future, in which we are suspended along with our desires, waiting to be embodied.  A time in which our fragilities, our fears and our deep individual and social needs emerge.A reflection on the desire to communicate, to touch ourselves, to care for ourselves, to embrace ourselves.  An attempt to recognize ourselves and find ourselves in the midst of uncertainty, despite the distances, through 4 short dance films and 4 viewpoints    We invite you to meet us, to share our wishes and reflections through this special program we have created in alliance with the Chilean streaming platform @escenix_cl

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Join me 2nd July for this discussion webinar.

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Screen Dance International

Screen Dance International is a dance film festival based in Detroit, Michigan. It will be hosted at Detroit Institute of Arts.

A short film festival in the US I helped to curate has announce their line up. Nice to see a few of my choices in there.

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Ill be chatting about editing and showing a film at this zoom meeting tomorrow Friday 8th May if you can join me that would be great to see you. 

https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vM94I0SQQCSjxoX1DTMWqg?fbclid=IwAR3kh0DU6-in2gqJWd_FGSP9HM-Hnqw6lc7Yud8RDAL1tphZXCl9H2t--pg

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Design Your Dance on Screen

A creative facilitation course to help film makers and dance makers collaborate successfully.

A new online course I have devised is open. Enrolment has started! The first 10 students benefit from the 30% discounted introductory rate and get additional email support. Initial places have been claimed already so don't miss out.

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“Sense of Centre” is showing at 2020 ScreenDance Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. The work was selected to be part of  2020 screenings during the festival an calendar of activities during 2020 and part of the beginning of next year 2021. ScreenDance Festival will take place in April 2020 at Dansmuseet Stockholm. All information for the festival will be available on: www.screendancefestival.com https://www.facebook.com/ScreenDanceFestival/ http://www.dansmuseet.se

Imagine a home that is living and breathing, that moves from place to place, a home that we are born in and die in. The body is a home, can be a home and should be a home. The notion of 'the body as home' is a way of expressing a much needed sense of belonging and connection in the world. Sense of Centre explores how the body can play its part in this, the body being enough, the body being reliable, the body being a vehicle for change and the potential of the body to serve as a sanctuary or a refuge from the challenges of our current world. Sense of Centre is a search for a deep grounding, softness, connection, tangibility and the need to be home in the moving and dancing body.

Choreography, concept and performance by Jack Webb

Music by Jack Webb

Funded by Creative Scotland Open Project Funding (funds from the National Lottery) and supported by Dance Base.

Film created by Goat Media (Director - Simon Fildes, DoP - Lucas Kao Chi-Peng and Production Assistant - Angela Hindhaugh)

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Screen.Dance - Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen

Screen.Dance is a programme of events and awards in Scotland, UK, dedicated to celebrating the art and creativity of imaginative dance on screen. Screen.Dan...

I’m back producing Screen.Dance for another year. Submit films at FilmFreeway . Stay tuned for information on a new location and venue for the festival. 

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“Etch” a short film by Abby Warrilow and Lewis Gourlay that I was Associate Producer on, picked up a bunch of awards in Utah USA last week. So happy for these guys and so well deserved.