Trailer: PoLy-Mirrors the film by Naïma Mazic & Alaa Alkurdi

Look at me.
Don't look at me.
Look diagonally up into the right corner.
Look diagonally down into the left corner.
Create a diagonal line between your right shoulder and your left hip.
Stop.
Tilt your head.
Change the position of the eyes.
Do not not look at me.
Show me your neck.

In the film PoLy-Mirrors a dialogue between a dancer and a choreographer is being explored through simultaneous reflections and isolations, within the difficulties and challenges of being a female performer and leader. The arc of the film is built on the drive and the urgency to discover new ways to reclaim and re-signify gestures of feminine diagonals, from the figure of the Virgin Mary, European renaissance art until today, and the rooted perceptions on gender expectations. The film is based on- and includes the piece PoLy- Mirrors / a re-performance of feminine diagonals by Naïma Mazic, together with dancers and jazz musicians.

Concept and director: Naïma Mazic
Concept and director: Alaa Alkurdi
Choreographer & Performer: Naïma Mazic
Cinematography/ Camera: Alaa Alkurdi
Performers: Evi Filippou, Amie Jammeh, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart, Elias Stemeseder
Composition/ Piano: Elias Stemeseder
Naima by John Coltrane on M-Claviton: Georg Vogel
Costumes: Maël Blau
Assistance/ Makeup & Hair: Christine Kern
Edit: Alaa Alkurdi & Naïma Mazic
Second camera: Matteo Molina
Additional sound edit: José Lopes
Production: more2rhythm
Supported by Performing Arts Forum / PAF, Porgy&Bess Jazz&Musicclub, ÖKF Paris, BMOEKS Von der Bühne zum Video, brut wien