Michelle Mahrer Films https://michellemahrerfilms.com Australian Film Producer & Director Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:51:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Short Film Gallery https://michellemahrerfilms.com/short-films/short-film-gallery Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:54:28 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=285 River Woman
River Woman ]]> Documentary gallery https://michellemahrerfilms.com/documentary/documentary-gallery Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:13:42 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=277 dances_of_ecstasy_450x331
Dances of Ecstasy ]]> Dance Performances https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/dance-performances Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:10:44 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=185 [...]]]> Director / Camera / Editor

Michelle Mahrer’s passion and skill for filming dance has led her to work with leading Australian contemporary choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek, Meryl Tankard and Stephen Page.

Lucy Guerin – Corridor
Lucy Guerin – Structure & Sadness
Lucy Guerin – Aether
Chunky Move – Two Faced Bastard
Chunky Move – Tense Dave
Chunky Move – Crumpled
Gravity Feed – Bland
Shaun Parker – This Show is About People

Other Selected works

Gravity Feed – Babel
Meryl Tankard Dance Theatre – Two Feet
Bangarra Dance Theatre – Fish
Lucy Guerin – Plasticine Park
Lucy Guerin – Ends of Things
Chunky Move – Three’s a Crowd
Dance works – Symptomatic
Australian Ballet School 40 Anniversary Gala

]]> Lucy Guerin – Corridor https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/lucy-guerin-corridor Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:04:34 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=52 [...]]]> Choreographed by Lucy Guerin, Corridor looks at our ability to live together according to the accepted laws of humanity.
 The relationship between movement and language is examined through the body as a transmitter and receiver of information.

The audience sits in a corridor formation of two long single rows facing each other, effectively becoming part of the set. Each viewer has a unique perspective of the work, with the performers seen at very close range, or at a distance as they move up and down the corridor.

]]> Lucy Guerin – Structure & Sadness https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/lucy-guerin-structure-sadness Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:19:01 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=60 [...]]]> The collapse of the West Gate Bridge in 1970 is an event that remains imbedded in the public psyche of Melbourne. Thirty-five men lost their lives when a span came down during its construction. Structure and Sadness explores an event in recent history not as a factual narrative, but as a physical, emotional and visual response to a devastating accident. Choreographed by Lucy Guerin.

]]> Lucy Guerin – Aether https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/lucy-guerin-aether Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:59:21 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=170 Choreographed by Lucy Guerin, Aether is a full-length dance work, which explores the integration of projection, sound and movement. It examines the overwhelming sophistication of contemporary communication and the problems that still remain with expressing ourselves in simple human interactions.


]]> Chunky Move – Two Faced Bastard https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/chunky-move-two-faced-bastard Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:00:35 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=172 [...]]]> On either side of a dividing curtain a group of performers juggle two simultaneous shows played to two opposing audiences. Each exit through the curtain becomes an entrance on the other side. As one world bleeds into another a unique performance emerges, cut loose from the rules that determine a performer’s onstage/offstage life. Created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin. 


]]> River Woman https://michellemahrerfilms.com/short-films/river-woman Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:16:49 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=58 [...]]]> 2005   13 minutes

RIVER WOMAN is an evocative dance film devised for television inspired by the rainbow serpent mythology, featuring a unique collaboration between Australian choreographer Bernadette Walong and award winning dance film-maker Michelle Mahrer.

In RIVER WOMAN Bernadette Walong personifies the spirit of the serpent who emerges from primordial nothingness birthing life. Textured images of the Australian landscape are layered with the choreography using contemporary digital composting techniques to create an evocative mythical world, visually capturing the living interconnection of land, spirit, body and myth. Walong’s organic forms interwoven with Australian landscape images captures the beauty and sensuality of the human form in movement.

Credits
Director/Writer Michelle Mahrer
Choreographer/Collaborator Bernadette Walong
Cinematography: Cordelia Beresford & Michelle Mahrer
Dancers: Bernadette Walong, Narelle Benjamin, Brett Daffy, Kristina Chan
Commissioned by ABCTV and funded by Australia Council and ABCTV

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]]> Chunky Move – Tense Dave https://michellemahrerfilms.com/dance-performance/chunky-move-tense-dave Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:01:39 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=175 Dave journeys through strange and fractured versions of a recognisable world distorted by fears, paranoia’s and unfulfilled fantasies. Created by some of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Gideon Obarzanek (Artistic Director Chunky Move), Lucy Guerin (Choreographer) and Michael Kantor (Theatre Director).

]]> Horizon https://michellemahrerfilms.com/short-films/horizon Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:57:47 +0000 http://michellemahrerfilms.com/?p=151 [...]]]> 1996   3 minutes

A short improvisational dance piece filmed in Super 8 featuring Australian choreographer and dancer Eva Karczag.

“Listening to myself and to my surroundings,
to the song that rises from this moment in which I am contained—
These dances rise up inside me and spin out beneath me,
And it’s as if I stand back, inside myself and observe
Available to constant change,
I can balance at the edge of the unknown,
And experience fearlessness.”
Eva Karczag

Credits
Director/Camera: Michelle Mahrer

eva_karczag_photo_by_nienke-terpsma

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