LADIA (2017)
Inspired by female "superheroes" Lara Croft and Nadia Comaneci, Ladia dedicates all her effort to win the game,
where the only game is to win over herself.
"Sandra’s work is a bright light, a searing, physicalization of our contradictory lives,"
- David Neuman, Advanced Beginner Group,
Bessie Award recipient (New York)
Credits:
Choreography and performance: Sandra Kramerová
Director: Álvaro Congosto
Cinematography: Jim Dandee
Sound Mixer: Jon Lloyd
Sound Designer: Jon Lloyd, Joy Song
Production Company: Auspicious Phoenix Productions
Distributor: Infocortos
Length: 7 minutes
LADIA on stage: Bessie Schonberg Theater, Dixon Place (NY), CC Amstel, Theater de Generator (NL)
Articles: Ladia leaps from stage to screen
LADIA, from Stage to Screen (published by Editorial/Universidad politécnica de Valencia)
Selections: Cinedans, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, You Better Move Dansmakers, Festival de Cine Español de Nantes, Corto Circuito Cali, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Radio City, Tlanchana Fest Festival de Cine y Arte Digital, Fear No Film, BCT - Festival Nazionale del Cinema e della Televisione di Benevento, International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance, Luna de Cortos, Festival de Corporalidad Expandida, Sarah Lawrence Dance Film Festival, ENEAGRAMA Festival de Cine Experimental, Portland Dance Film Fest, FAD Festival: Film-Art-Dance on Tour, ARTS TRIANGLE - Dance Film Festival, Wicklowscreendance Film festival Ireland, International Experimental Film and Video Festival BIDEODROMO 2018, Lady Filmmakers, 40 NORTH Dance Film Festival, Big River Dance Festival/Huntington WV, FESTIVAL MUNDIAL DE CINE EXTREMO DE VERACRUZ, DanzaTac 2018, Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Thessaloniki Dance Film Festival, Videoskin, In Shadows International Dance Film festival, Mostra Internacional de Dança - Imagens em Movimento a Céu Aberto -IMARP 2018, KRAF, Fragmentos Cortos, DANZA, Athens Video Dance Project, Rollout Dance Film Festival, Midwest RAD Fest, Mostra Internacional de Videodança de São Carlos, SEYR FESTIVAL, Austin Dance Festival: Dance on Film, Queens World Film Festival, IDACO nyc - Italian DAnce COnnection, OVERTIME FILMS FESTIVAL DE CINE DEPORTIVO, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Freiburg Screendance Festival, Idaho Screendance, Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, 16th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival
Awards: 2nd Jury prize & 3rd audience prize at 3RD Braga International Video Dace Festival (Portugal), special mention at 2º Festival internacional Corporalidad Expandida (Argentina), Best Sound at Portland Dance Film Fest (USA), Best Editing at Arts Triangle Dance Film Festival (USA), Jury recommendation Award Rollout Dancefilm festival (China)
