No. 1: Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella

Film authors: Eva Altman, Daria Ivanova, Savva Chernov, Maria Shcherbakova-Koroleva.

No. 2: Kurt Weill – Kleine Dreigroschenmusik

Film authors: Varvara Lavrova, Pyotr Karpov, Polina Privalova, Artem Kopysov.

No. 3: Sergey Prokofiev – Montagues and Capulets (from the ballet Romeo and Juliet)

Film authors:  Alexandra Burakovskaya, Vsevolod Artemov, Georgy Rogov.

Age of the authors: 12 - 15 years.

 

A series of three animated ballet films ‘Papiertanze’ was created during a large thematic project 'Workshop that Never Existed, or How We Played in Bauhaus' (2015/2016). The project introduced to the students some practices of the legendary Bauhaus school, and immersed them in the innovative art of the 1920s and 1930s: painting, graphics, music, theatre – and, of course, cinema and animation. Hence the films style: black and white images, a sharp contrast of light and shadow – stylized to resemble silent cinema.

 

The group divided into three small film crews, each of which chose a music piece, created characters and set design. While filming, all the participants alternately acted as directors, cameramen, animators, lighting operators. But there was no script or storyboard, only an approximate score of characters’ entrance. All the decisions were made while filming, and the overall tone was set by the music (and some technical aspects of time-lapse photography).

 

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