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"Sista Dansen" ("The Last Dance") - Pictures from documentary about retired dancers
Hey everyone, first post for me here, longtime reader. Great community with a lot of people doing a lot of inspirational work!
Just wanted to post some pictures from a Swedish feature documentary I worked as DP on last year, called "Sista Dansen" (rough translation "The Last Dance"). The film is about dancers and how they react to retirement. As it's a physically straining profession many dancers quit when they're only around 40 years old. What does one do when something you've worked for, and spent such a big part of your life doing, suddenly is taken away from you? Either from physical/psychological stress or not being able to be part of an ensemble. The film focused on a 40 year old dancer, Monica, who is at the brink of retirement and is about to do her last big show. Interspersed with her main story we followed 3 other dancers (roughly in their 60s - 70s) to see how they had coped with retirement - depression, enlightenment, becoming dance teachers. Me and Engeli Broberg (who directed the film) were very privileged to be able to invite these old dancers to do one last show for us, 30 years after their retirement. The film is not only a story about and for dancers, we feel that the main themes can be of interest to people in other parts of their life with wildly different interests and professions. At the core it's a story about aging, change, and fear of change. (this became much more of a sales pitch-sounding thingy than I intended...my bad!)
Below are some pics from the documentary which is set to (hopefully) be distributed on TV in Sweden in Late 2013. Hope to be able to post some footage from the docu very soon as well. Will keep you guys posted! :smile5:
It was shot on a Red Epic-X using Red Zooms (18-50 as well as a 50-150).
Take care everyone!
/Nils
Hey everyone, first post for me here, longtime reader. Great community with a lot of people doing a lot of inspirational work!
Just wanted to post some pictures from a Swedish feature documentary I worked as DP on last year, called "Sista Dansen" (rough translation "The Last Dance"). The film is about dancers and how they react to retirement. As it's a physically straining profession many dancers quit when they're only around 40 years old. What does one do when something you've worked for, and spent such a big part of your life doing, suddenly is taken away from you? Either from physical/psychological stress or not being able to be part of an ensemble. The film focused on a 40 year old dancer, Monica, who is at the brink of retirement and is about to do her last big show. Interspersed with her main story we followed 3 other dancers (roughly in their 60s - 70s) to see how they had coped with retirement - depression, enlightenment, becoming dance teachers. Me and Engeli Broberg (who directed the film) were very privileged to be able to invite these old dancers to do one last show for us, 30 years after their retirement. The film is not only a story about and for dancers, we feel that the main themes can be of interest to people in other parts of their life with wildly different interests and professions. At the core it's a story about aging, change, and fear of change. (this became much more of a sales pitch-sounding thingy than I intended...my bad!)
Below are some pics from the documentary which is set to (hopefully) be distributed on TV in Sweden in Late 2013. Hope to be able to post some footage from the docu very soon as well. Will keep you guys posted! :smile5:
It was shot on a Red Epic-X using Red Zooms (18-50 as well as a 50-150).
Take care everyone!
/Nils
I shot a similar style piece a few weeks ago (much shorter though) and would be very intersting to see the different creative paths and outlets. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing more