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Profile of Ardian Hartono with autumn leaves stuck to his cheek and a blue feather earring.
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2022FilmPOOL Movement Art Film Festival, Berlin

love

Dance short film · co-directed with Johan Planefeldt

About the production

Exploring the vast concept of love from a multidimensional perspective. If love is a frequency, an energetic channel which opens doors for the unknown to manifest, how can we surrender to its magic?

There is no time or space, but a connecting force which makes the wheels turn. It takes you over, it moves you in ways that you didn't know you can be moved. Trust! If you imagine it, it's real!

The film was selected for the POOL Movement Art Film Festival in Berlin and screened in its PEARLS programme in September 2022.

Video

love full film
love video 2

Gallery

Profile of Ardian Hartono with autumn leaves stuck to his cheek and a blue feather earring. Several pairs of hands embrace a bare back below a head of curly hair.
The dancer lies curled on her side on a pale studio floor, hair spread around her head. Ardian Hartono presses his face to the forest floor among red autumn leaves.
He studies a dry leaf held between his fingers, bare trees behind him. A small figure embraces a tree trunk in the middle of the autumn forest.
She covers her eyes with one hand, lying on the pale floor. She holds her head with both hands and looks into the camera.
She sits folded up on the white floor, leaves scattered at her feet. Eyes closed, mouth full of leaves, she holds out her open hands.
The two dancers face each other, almost touching, in violet haze. A hand rests on a forehead, faces in profile in deep violet light.
Fingers press into a cheek, the second face watching closely. A translucent film stretches between their faces.

Photos: Film still, camera Johan Planefeldt, Film still

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