Home (documentary/dance)
Anton directed and co-edited this film. He initially collaborated with choreographer Jo Parkes and composer Robert Wells, from which the project grew to involve a over 300 young people, community members, professional dancers and film crew.
"Home" is a dance/documentary film exploring issues concerning the relationships of people to their environment, their family and migration through the eyes of three East London families. The film is a process-driven film in which the outcome was very much dependent on the method used to develop and devise the content. There was no script as such and the scenes for the film were built up carefully over time based on the real lives of the young people and their families who appear in the film.
Nanthu who is 15 and her family, who are all Tamil, came from Sri Lanka to London escape the civil war. Ervin's family were also escaping war in their home country Kosovo. When they set-off neither of the families knew which country was going to be their new home. Laura Anne's family have been in East London for generations. Having lived through the blitz, her gran recounts her experiences of being bombed by the Germans.
Featuring
Laura Anne Smith & family, Nanthu Kumar & family, Ervin Hysa
& family
Dancers:
Alessia Scala, Vik Sivalingham, Jill Gale, Colin McLeon, Angus McKenzie-Davie,
Danielle Joscelyne, Ahmed Yusuf, Laura Anne Smith, Catherine Lovell,
Nanthu Kumar, Ervin Hysa, Sade Stephens, Thomas Fitzgerald, Tanima Mannan,
Shona Phimister, Sara Dos Santos, Kyrie Phimister
Credits: Producer: Dhiraj Mahey
Director, Editor: Anton Califano
Concept/Choreographer: Jo Parkes
Director of Photography: Mark Raeburn
Composer: Robert Wells Co-editor: Simon Aeppli
Sound design: Fabrice Pougnard Funded by: Arts Council England, Awards for All, NewVIc, NESTA and Primal Pictures Produced by Primal Pictures (Shot on 16mm film)
Selected for:Tensdansa, Barcelona Oct 2006, Festival Iberoamericano de Cortos Imagenes Jovenes Buenos Aires, Nov 2004, Europa.Kino Cologne, May 2004, Tanzfilm Cologne, Jan 2004, Oh Art! Oxford House, London, Nov 2003, Muestra Videodanza, Gijon, October 2003, Cologne Short Film Festival, Sept 2003, Hamburg Int’l Short Film Festival, June 2003, Raindance East, London, UK, March 2003, Video Dansa Morca, Barcelona, Spain Feb 2003, New York, Dance Films Association, USA Jan 2003, Dance On Screen International Festival, London, Nov 2002, IMZ, Dancescreen Festival, Monaco, Dec 2002