3 min | 2006 | UK
Director & Choreographer: Susanna Wallin
http://www.southeastdance.org.uk/films-nightpractice.htm
In Susanna Wallin’s Night Practice, the seven dancers from Coventry’s Kombat Breakers are seen hanging out on a floodlit football pitch at night. There is no coach to be seen and the film explores the undirected energy that comes from being able to do whatever you want. Shot on a pitch in the middle of the night in Coventry, Night Practice combines the structure of meticulous training with simple magical wonder.
Susanna Wallin was born in Lund, Sweden. She graduated from London College of Printing in 2001 with a BA (Hons) in Film and Video and continued to do a Masters in Visual Art and Writing at Goldsmiths University in 2003. Living in London, she makes films for broadcast as well as independent short films. Her film, Night Practice (2006) produced by South East Dance, about a group of teenage boys hanging out on the sports grounds in the middle of the night, premiered on Channel 4, UK and won the IMZ Award for best film under 5 minutes in The Hague 2007. Her recent film, Eddie Proctor (2007) funded by Film London and the UK Film Council, about a man who quits a game of table tennis, premiered at the Times BFI 51st London Film Festival and is now travelling the international festival circuit. In 2007 she received the LAFVA Award (The London Artist Film and Video Award) and her new film, Marker, about a girl who marks reindeer will premiere at the end of this year.
