Álex pachón
Patricia Sánchez Mora
Álex Pachón
Félix Méndez, Núria Gàmiz
Alberto Rodríguez
Oriol Pont
Patricia Sánchez Mora
Alberto Rodríguez
Álex Pachón
Novena Nube, laudiovisual prod.
Freak Independent Film Agency, Catálogo Jara 2013 – Extremadura Film Comission
Every sound provokes a movement and every movement produces a sound.
A character dances the music that sounds only if he dances. With this action we question with some sarcasm the origin of the relationship between dance and music. What came first, the chicken or the egg? The rhythm is conditioned and depends completely on the movement, the corporal expression and vice versa: the movement is only produced when there is a sound that accompanies it.
TEA Tenerife 2013
Estreno nacional. Sección Oficial Internacional.
MAGMART Italia 2013
World Premier. International short competition.
Premio Canal + A la mejor Videocreación. 2014.
Certamen Internacional Óxido Fest Screen Dance 2015
Competición internacional. Primer premio.
One Minute Jumping Frames Dance Video Competition Hong Kong 2013.
International Competition. First Runner up Award.
In Shadow Lisboa 2013.
International Competition. Best choreography.
FIVER International Screendance Movement 2014.
Competición nacional. Premio al mejor videodanza nacional.
8º Festival Internacional de Videodanza y Videomovimiento de Colombia.
Competición internacional. Mención de honor.
II Muestra Riurau Film Festival 2014.
Sección internacional de cortos. Premio mejor film de danza.
Mostra Internacional de Dança – Imagens em Movimento Céu Aberto – IMARP 2014.
Competición internacional. Tercer premio.
V Edición del Festival Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes FIBABC Certamen de i-Cortos. Mención de honor.
Festival de videoarte de Barcelona – Bang Festival 2015.
Diploma especial Sies. Premio al mejor vídeo de temática cultural.
Festival de Cinema de Girona 2013.
Mostra.
MIA screenings Pasadena, California 2013.
Official section.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Boulder, Colorado 2013.
International Competition.
Almería en corto 2013.
Cuentalo en 90 ́ ́.
SIMULTAN Festival Timisoara 2013.
Official Competition.
Sur Real Berlin 2013.
Panorama.
One MinuteAarau Suiza 2013.
International Competition.
VideodanzaBA fest BBAA 2013.
Sección oficial internacional.
Incubarte Valencia 2013.
Mostra.
The Oklahoma Dance Film Festival Tulsa 2013.
International Competition.
Videolooking Hospitalet de Llobregat 2013.
Mostra.
Horlursfestuval Solefftea Suecia 2013.
International Competition.
Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne 2014.
Competicion Internacional.
VII Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Barcelona 2014.
Sección oficial.
Dances with Camera Polonia 2014.
Panorama.
Barcelona VisualSound 2014. Videocreación.
Rendibú 2014.
Videodanza Experimental.
Festival Vida de perro 2014. Secció oficial.
RADAR, a night of short dance films screening USA 2014.
10 degrees.
3º IDILL International Dance online Short Film Festival 2014.
International Competition.
IV Festival Internacional de Danza Independiente Cocoa 2014.
Competición Internacional.
8th DMJ International VideoDance Japan Festival. International Competition.
Festival Internacional TOMACINE – CORTOMATE’14 – Tomatina Music&Film.
Sección Videoarte.
1ª Muestra Internacional Corporalidad Expandida de Argentina.
Panorama.
XII Festival de Cortometrajes Fascurt El Masnou.
Secció Undercurt.
6th Cairo Video Festival – Medrar for Contemporary Art.
International Competition.
Muestra Intermediaciones/INTERMEDIATIONS Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase. Colombia 2014. Selección Muestra Internacional.
Sitges. Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya 2014.
Espacio BRIGADOON.
28th LIFF’s Leeds Screendance Competition.
International Competition.
12nd Tirana International Film Festival.
Official section.
ScreenDance Miami – Dance On Film Festival 2014.
Panorama.
30th Interfilm Berlin. International Competition.
20th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival.
International Competition.
Festival de Cine de Zaragoza 2014.
Sección Oficial del Concurso Nacional de Microcortos.
Experiments In Cinema, Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico 2014.
Panorama.
Proyección en el Cinéma Luminor Hôtel-de-Ville. 2014
V International Dance Camera Istanbul.
International Competiton.
Prosa, Vídeo e Dança – I Mostra Independente de Videodança de Brasil.
Mostra.
Delete-TV Pilot Episode Austria 2015.
On-line Competition.
XXXI International Festival – “Sarajevo Winter 2015”
International Competition.
16th BUNTER HUND – International Short Film Festival.
International Competition.
Screening 21 Cineclub Uned De Soria – La Factoria.
17 Mecal. Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges i Animació de Barcelona.
Secció videodança.
Instalation – Perpetracions –Centre Civic Sant Martí. Barcelona.
9ª Mostra Internacional de Videodança de São Carlos.
Panorama.
22ª Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, l’Alternativa.
Pantalla Hall
Dotdotdot, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes al Aire Libre de Viena.
Muestra y taller “The Hen or The egg“
CASCADIA Dance & Cinema Festival en Tapdance de Vancouver 2016.
International Competition.
Screening Espagnolas en Paris 2017.
Très Court International Festiva 2017.
Screening in over 100 screens from 34 countries.
“If dance is the body in movement, is music the sound of the body? The rhythm of the heart is the first rhythm (the first music) that we feel in the womb. It is the evidence that the world can be predicted. Organic rhythm that, according to the author, is close to dance. Fragmentation of the image (amplified by the noise of the breakage) and crossbreeding between dance, music and body-art. Impeccable black and white that refers to antiquity, to the origins when the body was not yet culture”.
-Ob Art.
“A dancer’s process for warming up is labor intensive. The body requires precise care, with limbs and torso, hands and feet all needing specific attention and specific stretches and movement so that it can ready itself for the task ahead. And after years of grueling workouts and adrenaline filled performances when a dancer’s body succeeds in becoming that finely tuned instrument for expression of emotion and drama, a vehicle for story or for creating an architecture of moving lines on the blank space of a dimly lit stage, it finally begins to talk back.
The Spanish short film Cracks (2013) is a humorous and almost disturbing study and meditation on just that. It explores the multitude of ways that hands, feet, ankles, neck, back and more sound off in cracks and pops while stretching so the dancer can be ready to proceed. Shot entirely in rich black and white, with great close ups and interesting isolations and juxtapositions of body parts, Cracks features the dance, concept, choreography and direction of Alex Pachon, and production by Patricia Sanchez. Its resolution and power as a short has as much or more to do with editing and sound as choreography and camera, and its success has not gone unnoticed. Cracks has been seen internationally at more than half a dozen film festivals, including this year’s Dance Camera West. When I first saw this short, I cringed at the sound, but in continued viewing it stands out as a very successful, smart, and beautifully shot vignette. At a mere three minutes long, it’s worth a try…”
-Sarah Elgart, Cultural Weekly