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Unstable seasons - Florian Goralsky

short film 2019
  • director
    FLORIAN GORALSKY
  • distribution
    YAN SCHWOB
    FLORINE MARCHAL
    SAMUEL DURANTEL
  • cinematographer
    RAUL FERNANDEZ
  • assistant-directors
    PIERRE-EMMANUEL DELAHAYE
    THOMAS ESTOURNEL
  • trailer music
    RUTGER ZUYDERVELT (MACHINEFABRIEK)

One autumn morning, a group of teenagers passed a wood to a football field. In the boys' group, everyone wins a place by competing. In this atmosphere, Martin is going through something else. Pauline, his first love, announces the end of their story.


Official selections / Festivals / Screenings :
Sainte-Marie aux Mines - Avant-Première Ciné-vallée 2019
Strasbourg - Première Cinéma Star 2019
Lyon - Lyon Young Fest (LYF) 2019 (Association Prize Winner)
Barcelona - International selection Mecal 22nd edition 2020
Paris - Balance ton court 11th edition 2019
Chefchaouen - Chefchaouen International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2019
Buenos Aires - Cine Luz del Desierto 2019

Entrelacs - Veronika Akopova

solo 2015
  • choreography and performance
    VERONIKA AKOPOVA
  • music
    ADRIAN KLUMPES
    ANDREI KARASYOV
  • video
    FLORIAN GORALSKY

The choreographic research in the piece Entrelacs aims for a physical translation of human existential experiences through the mechanics of knitting. From one stitch to another, the body follows a meandering course created by the yarn, knitting and unraveling itself, making knots, tending and releasing.

Stuttgart. 19. Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater
Gdansk. Gdansk Dance Festival
Stuttgart. Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz
Heidelberg. HebelHalle, Kulturhaus UnterwegsTheater
Karlsruhe. Tanzfestival Kulturzentrum Tempel
Augsburg. Kulturhaus Abraxas
Lindau. Stadttheater
Regensburg. Regensburger Tanztage/Unitheater
Ulm. Stadttheater, Podium
Skopje - Dance Fest Skopje
Campo Grande/MS - Semana Pra Dança 2017
Salvador da Bahia - Vivadança Festival Internacional
Curitiba - Mostra Paranaense de Dança
Natal - Encontro de Dança Contemporânea
Paris - Rencontres chorégraphiques - Théâtre Douze
Paris - Festival Fait Maison

Catharsis - Veronika Akopova

film 2016
  • director, choreographer, dancer
    VERONIKA AKOPOVA

After a “delicate at 37°C” wash, a new born body tangled in fresh clothes slides out of a washing machine. Oscillating between “pure” and “dirty”, the new being goes through human existential experiences, ending up with a cathartic jubilation of life.

Awards:
Amsterdam - Cinedans Dance on Screen Festival 2017
Santiago du Chili - Bestias Danzantes Dance Film Festival 2017
Lisbonne - InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival 2017

Official selections/Screenings: 
Hong Kong - Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival 2016
Bucarest - Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2016
Macao - ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival 2016
Cagliari - Breaking 8 - International Dance Film Festival 2016
Bordeaux - Festival Coupé Court 2017
Athènes - Athens Video Dance Project 2017
Cracovie - Dance moments 2017 : Dance into the Light - Goethe-Institut
Einavegen - RIFF R.E.D International Film Festival 2017
Sfântu Gheorghe - CAMP 2017 (Contemporary Artistic Movement Platform)
Barcelone - Choreoscope 2017
Helsinki - Loikka 2018
Gdansk - In Out Festival 2018 Dance/Image

Flying bodies across the fields - Veronika Akopova

creation 2020
  • concept and choreography
    VERONIKA AKOPOVA
  • music
    ANDREI KARASYOV

Over the last few years the population of bees has declined considerably. No bees means no plants, no food, and therefore no humans. In order to save the planet the researchers have invented pollinator drones to replace the real bees. By ensuring plant reproduction, these pollinator drones would be responsible for the creational function, inherently reserved for living beings. What is the place of the human being in a world where drones take responsibility for the primary process of reproduction and creation?

 

 

Bathers - Florian Goralsky

film 2019
  • director
    FLORIAN GORALSKY
  • distribution
    FANNY DE FONT-RÉAULX
    BENOIT MICHAUD
    ZOE M.

A summer afternoon in the garden, a child is left to herself near the pool.


Official selections / Screenings :
Antwerp - Ongezien Kort 2019
France, Belgium, Switzerland - Cinéma itinérant La Bête Rousse 2019

Rand() - Veronika Akopova & Florian Goralsky

video dance 2018
  • directors
    VERONIKA AKOPOVA
    FLORIAN GORALSKY
  • production
    VERONIKA CHERNYSHEVA
  • music
    ANDREI KARASYOV
  • choreography
    VERONIKA AKOPOVA
  • dancers
    JULIA BARANYUK
    EKATERINA BLINOVA
    MARIA ERMOKHINA
    LUBOV FILATOVA
    DARIA GLEBOVA
    ALEXANDER KHITYEV
    KARINA LYASHENKO
    ELIZAVETA NIKITINA
    EKATERINA POVOD
    VALERIIA SHCHERBATYKH
    VITA SLIZEN
    EVGENIIA TALETSKAYA

What is a hazard? Is it nothing more than a sequence of causes and effects forming an infinitely complex algorithm? “Rand()”, which signifies a programming function that generates pseudo-random results, immerses the viewer in a game with unpredictable results.

Awards:
Gdansk - In Out Festival 2019 Video/Performance (Honorary mention)


Official selections/Screenings:
Rennes - Ciné-corps Festival 2019, National Theatre of Brittany
Tehran - Seyr Festival 2019 (Tehran's International Festival of Screen-Movement and Media Arts)
Portland - Contact Dance Film Festival 2019
Amorgos - Little Islands Film Festival 2019
Valencia - International Meeting on Videodance and Videoperformance 2019
Ottawa - Cinédanse 2019
Nicosia - Moving International Videodance Festival 2019

bok o bok - About us

Veronika Akopova started dancing at the age of five in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow State University and moved to Paris in 2010, where she did a research in the field of poetry and dance at the Sorbonne.
She trained as a dance artist at ACTS School of Contemporary Dance in Paris and the National Dance Center, supported by Adami.
She danced for Iván Pérez in "The Inhabitants", "Impression" and "Becoming" at Dance Theatre Heidelberg in Germany, as well as for the French choreographer Sylvain Groud and the Israeli company C.a.t.a.m.o.n dance group.
She created her first works presented and awarded at international festivals: a solo “Entrelacs” (2015) and a videodance “Catharsis” (2016), then co-directed and choreographed the videodance “Rand()” (2018), commissioned by a Russian organization for contemporary dance.

Florian Goralsky is a French director, editor and cinematographer born in Strasbourg in 1990. Until 2012 he worked in Strasbourg on several documentaries, in particular for Arte or the European institutions.
He participated in the creation of the Virtual Reality (VR) pole of the parisian agency neostory (Axxess Group) as an artistic advisor.
He is a director of photography of Veronika's dance film "Catharsis" and a co-director of "Rand()".
In 2019 he also directed a short film "Unstable seasons" in partnership with local institutions in France.