10:00 min | 2004 | UK
Director: Rachel Davies | Choreographer: Hannah Gilgren
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Two young Olympic gymnasts dance in their local gym. Set in an everyday London suburb, GOLD creates a surreal and sensual world, a celebration of motion, energy and the rich elegance of human movement - evoking the promise of freedom and power of adrenaline of girls’ early teenage years.
GOLD was the Overall Winner - Bi-annual Grand Prix IMZ international Dance Screen Award June 2005. It was broadcast on Channel 4 ‘4Dance’ in 2005 and also screened at the Women’s and Men’s British Championships, the Gymnastics World Cup and in a Science & Sport exhibition, Science Museum, London.
Rachel Davies’ first film screened at the London Film Festival in 1991.After a fine art degree she traveled to Hong Kong to work on commercials and direct award-winning animated promos for MTV. Returning to the UK to study at the Royal College of Art, she began making experimental short films mixingdrama with animation, which screened at film festivals around the world. Her work is personal, accessible and emotionally-driven. In it she attempts to find truths in how we navigate and recall our lives. She mixes up media to challenge expectations of genre and to reach new and wide audiences. Her work has since been shown at a number prestigious venues including The Purcell Room (London), The Place (London), Bonington Gallery (Nottingham), Chisenhale (London), The Science Museum (London), Cornerhouse Gallery (Manchester), Sydney Opera House and Berlin, Chicago, Tampere, New York and Edinburgh Film Festivals.
Her extensive and eclectic career has encompassed a number of major collaborations with practitioners from other disciplines. Developing how film can interact with performance, her collaborators have included Robert Cohan, Erstaz Dance, H2 Dance and Akram Khan.
