Athletes of the Imagination is an extraordinary collection of choreographed short films. This includes the premiere of Seismos (2006) (right) by Daniel Belton €” fresh from the editing suite €” alongside the rare opportunity to view Good Company's back catalogue spanning the past two years...

Rialto Cinema, Dunedin - 13th & 14th 7.30pm, 15th - 3pmAthletes of the Imagination is an extraordinary collection of choreographed short films. This includes the premiere of Seismos (2006) (right) by Daniel Belton €” fresh from the editing suite €” alongside the rare opportunity to view Good Company's back catalogue spanning the past two years...

Rialto Cinema, Dunedin - 13th & 14th 7.30pm, 15th - 3pmFollowing a critically acclaimed live season of Soma Songs at The Dunedin Public Art Gallery in June 2005, New Zealand's award-winning multi-disciplinary production company Good Company Arts returns to Dunedin, in partnership with The Otago Festival of the Arts, with a sensational retrospective of film works. Drawing on an exceptional pool of specialist talent, this company continues to delight audiences both at home and abroad with films that intertwine human movement with fine arts.

Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts present
Athletes of the Imagination
5 short films - 2 years in the making - 25 major international festivals - WIZARDRY AT WORK

"One cannot help but marvel at the integration of art forms at play here." - Soma Songs Review, Otago Daily Times, June 2005

Figure(s) of Speech (3:00)
With moving image as the primary vehicle for exploration, this work builds separate entities €”kinetic, graphic/visual, chromatic €”yet functions as one connected coherent volume.
Awarded Best Video Creation at the Canariasmediafest 2004 International Festival of Mulitmedia and Video (Spain)
Official selection at 7 major international festivals.

Game (4.00)
A man works with miniature holographic figures over a high tech game tablet to unlock new levels of understanding. As he walks out of the film we can be surprised that his heavy limp is gone; that he now walks freely and easily. Through the act of playing the game, and the game playing him, he has been radically changed.
Finalist at the Vodafone Digital Art Awards 2005.
Finalist at the 2005 Roma Independent Film Festival.
Official selection at 12 major international festivals.

Reset (11:00)
A couple face each other in a comic miniature tournament of wills and emotions. The table-sized board game is the channel for change and for moving forward.
Official selection at 4 major international festivals (currently touring NZ as part of the Telecom Internation Film Festival).

Soma Songs (23.00) €”Dunedin PREMIERE
"Body songs - body rhythm". The skeletons of stone structures have sat with us for millennia. Through choreography and space, construction takes form. Is this structure a shelter or a wall? A device or a library €”a means to navigate and travel; or a massive instrument to play sound?
Official selection at Canariasmediafest 2006 International Festival of Mulitmedia and Video (Spain)

Seismos (19:00) €”Dunedin PREMIERE
An exploration of the human body as it 'quakes' and tremors in dance and gesture. The choreography and sound emerge like an archeological excavation, as a process of finding and uncovering.

Still from Seismos (2006). Location: Moeraki Boulders. Dancers Kilda Northcott, Donnine Harrison, Sophie Ryan. Photo: Bill Nichol.

Good Company Arts boasts a formidable stable of cross-discipline talent including 3d Animator/Digital Artist Jac Grenfell in collaboration with a bevy of international sound artists; all under the leadership of Dancer/Choreographer/Artistic Director Daniel Belton. The award-winning company has an international reputation for their unique multi-disciplinary approach involving commissions of visual art, haute couture design, new music, contemporary dance, animation and film.

ATHLETES OF THE IMAGINATION plays three screenings only!
Rialto Cinema, Dunedin
Friday 13th and Saturday 14th October at 7:30 pm sharp
Sunday 15th at 3pm sharp
$10 on the door

www.otagofestival.co.nz