22nd February 2024
Moving with Purpose
Title of film: Future Islands, The Thief
Director: Ivana Bobic
Production Company: Riff Raff
Driven by her obsessive fascination with performance, dance has often pirouetted, leapt and swayed through the work of Riff Raff director Ivana Bobic, from commercials for Mulberry and Axe to music videos – but her latest promo for Future Islands is, in her words, a ‘dance DANCE’ film. Shot in the hallowed home of contemporary movement itself - Sadler’s Wells – the film fleshes out the merely decorative roles of dancers, putting them centre stage as it tracks the process of creating a performance - from initial choreography to curtain up – in all its messy, gruelling and triumphant glory. If, as Bobic says, dance needs to be felt, and not just watched, this is the ultimate expression of being moved – in more than one way. She tells 1.4 about the liberating effects of close collaboration, embracing her fears on the other side of the camera, and why filmmaking has always nurtured her through hard times
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