Altin Kaftira RSS Feedhttp://www.kaftira.com/index.htmlNews!enaltin@mac.comCopyright 2011 Altin Kaftira2012-01-13T22:43:54+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 17 May 2011 23:41:26 +0200Holiday in Italy with my beautiful girl :)altin@mac.comPersonalSongFunVideo clip2012-01-13T22:43:54+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/29ef83b501e6b53c35375f686ea02ae2-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/29ef83b501e6b53c35375f686ea02ae2-20.html#unique-entry-id-20my girl, Rome, Siena, Florence and the random lady singer. We were listening to her street concert, on Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence
I hadn’t planned to make such video for this holiday. My recordings were just to have them for future use.
The coincidence of filming the singer on the street gave me the idea to make a video-clip like video.
I recorded about 5-6 songs until I liked the one I used for this clip.
The lady continued singing for more then 1 hour. I thought she was quite a good singer.
I regret I didn’t get her contact details to let her know about the video, though.
If anyone meets or knows the singer, please get her contact details for me or let her know about the video :)

]]>The TEDx Amsterdam 2011 traileraltin@mac.comDancedance2filmTedxTrailerHNB2011-11-25T22:36:43+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/5bff385b05912ee79d23ccdca7447a08-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/5bff385b05912ee79d23ccdca7447a08-19.html#unique-entry-id-19TEDx Amsterdam (trailer)
For this project dance2film worked closely with WE ARE Pi agency to realize such an almost impossible task.
Creating a human brain with human bodies was an immense challenge but the results were a ‘perfect’ brain.
dance2film was involved as co-director in this project together with Bill Tanakka
The choreography was created by Ernst Meisner


A NATION UNITED, IDEAS UNITED
The Dutch National Ballet, Rutger Hauer and Amsterdam’s creative community come together over ideas worth doing for TEDxAmsterdam.

]]>The TEDxAmsterdam 2011 (rehearsal trailer)altin@mac.comDanceTrailerTedx2011-11-15T09:07:58+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f6e9c7cb28c5f677c58e29035a93bcd4-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f6e9c7cb28c5f677c58e29035a93bcd4-18.html#unique-entry-id-18For this project dance2film worked closely with WE ARE Pi agency to realize such an almost impossible task.
Creating a human brain with human bodies was an immense challenge but the results were a ‘perfect’ brain.
dance2film was involved as co-director in this project together with Bill Tanakka
The choreography was created by Ernst Meisner
This video is the rehearsal of it

A NATION UNITED, IDEAS UNITED
The Dutch National Ballet, Rutger Hauer and Amsterdam’s creative community come together over ideas worth doing for TEDxAmsterdam.

]]>Switch the Movie (Omscholingsregeling for dancers)altin@mac.comDanceBalletDocumentarydance2film2011-11-11T22:49:31+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/10ad9591e6842481d05a252116a9bdbb-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/10ad9591e6842481d05a252116a9bdbb-17.html#unique-entry-id-17Omscholingsregeling in Netherlands is a re-schooling scheme for retiring dancers. This scheme is quite unique.
This scheme helps dancers who stop with dancing, find or support their new careers.
dance2film (Mathieu and myself) made this short film for the 25th anniversary of the Omscholingsregeling.
The film was first shown during a dance gala on October 31st 2011.

]]>Roemjana & Koen interviewaltin@mac.comdance2filmDanceTVinterview2011-11-08T22:45:06+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f9cf4bdf18ba78dad63b6e0b6f4fc11c-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f9cf4bdf18ba78dad63b6e0b6f4fc11c-16.html#unique-entry-id-16Roemjana & Koen are latin/ballroom choreographers.
Recently they are TV stars for such programs as ‘Dance Challenge’ and ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
For this interview I worked together with Mathieu, my dance2film partner
this is the part 2 of the interview. Part 1 can be seen here.
The dancing images are courtesy of RTL

]]>Tango @ the castle (trailer)altin@mac.comDanceTango2011-11-06T22:36:59+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/d5e8ac55a7f515a3d1a4b980ee2b12ec-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/d5e8ac55a7f515a3d1a4b980ee2b12ec-15.html#unique-entry-id-15this trailer is made for a tango show which was performed live at Castle Amerongen in Netherlands.
For the show I created a short film as if the story was live. The end of the film connects with the live performance of the tango show. The end of the tango show connect again with video images as if the story continues live


]]>Mikhail Baryshnikov (exclusive interview)altin@mac.comDanceBalletinterview2011-09-01T23:01:18+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/89140f8fad03463a4f62d6068a7d4ad0-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/89140f8fad03463a4f62d6068a7d4ad0-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Mr. Mikhail Baryshnikov gave this interview exclusively during the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen, Netherlands. In this festival Mr. Baryshnikov is performing 'In Paris' a play from the Russian director Dmitry Krymov.
It was a very special moment for me personally as Mr. Baryshnikov was my dancer idol which I have followed from the distance since when I was in the ballet school in Albania back in late '80. The first time I had the pleasure to watch him dance live on stage was only in 2009 when Mr. Baryshnikov danced with Ana Laguna in Amsterdam.

The interview was filmed by dance2film (Altin & Mathieu)

This interview was made possible by the arrangements of danspubliek.nl

]]>Katja & James weddingaltin@mac.comWeddingFriends2011-08-01T09:47:49+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/3fb458d025c8033dbe2a785b52eef8bf-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/3fb458d025c8033dbe2a785b52eef8bf-13.html#unique-entry-id-13She was inspired by my recent film works so she trusted me to film her wedding in Stockholm.
The wedding was a very special one. It was a very stylish and beautifully organized wedding in beautiful locations.
But the most noticeable thing, was that there was love everywhere and the whole day :)

I filmed this wedding with my friend Mathieu. Since the results of the film came out quite nice and the feedback was immensely positive, we are considering offering such service to anyone who likes our way of working.


]]>Personal Spacealtin@mac.comShort filmDanceBalletFilmHNB2011-06-20T18:41:25+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/73315bd24ffdf9847edeb21fdde341a2-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/73315bd24ffdf9847edeb21fdde341a2-12.html#unique-entry-id-12
]]>Cherkaoui/Dawson traileraltin@mac.comBalletHNBDanceTrailer2011-06-20T18:35:51+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/9ff08880e03cdb2d79133ba8ff5816dd-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/9ff08880e03cdb2d79133ba8ff5816dd-11.html#unique-entry-id-11
]]>Sleeping Beauty (trailer)altin@mac.comBalletDanceHNBTrailer2011-01-29T22:58:34+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/e847d343521fc7c65955273da280e600-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/e847d343521fc7c65955273da280e600-10.html#unique-entry-id-10a short trailer of the ballet Sleeping Beauty performed by Dutch National Ballet in December 2010

]]>Sylvia (trailer)altin@mac.comBalletDanceHNBTrailer2011-05-29T22:49:01+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/75e0a4b2690a798256129a7fe62f258f-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/75e0a4b2690a798256129a7fe62f258f-9.html#unique-entry-id-9a 1 minute trailer of the new ballet of John Neumeier's 'Sylvia' by Dutch National Ballet

]]>T.K.O. (T.aK.e it O.utside)altin@mac.comWorkoutGym2011-05-24T11:34:09+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f1795469a2739a26c8c644a767df5676-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/f1795469a2739a26c8c644a767df5676-7.html#unique-entry-id-7My friends Sefton Clarke, dancer with Het Nationale Ballet (HNB) and Yaset Artola Rosell, a former dancer with HNB, offer a special training that anyone can be part of. It takes part outdoors rather than in a gym. It's hard work but lots of fun too and at the end of it you will feel that you have not only surpassed your limits but that you have achieved something the other gym bunnies haven't!
Enjoy!

]]>HNB fast forwardaltin@mac.comBalletDanceHNB2011-06-02T23:20:48+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/4880b1f238867d1b9692207f1341f083-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/4880b1f238867d1b9692207f1341f083-6.html#unique-entry-id-6

HNB fast forward from Altin Kaftira on Vimeo.

]]>Erica Horwoodaltin@mac.comModellingDanceFashion2011-05-22T23:14:37+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/1762dd99a35a2a0ff4f6ec16bcabe240-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/1762dd99a35a2a0ff4f6ec16bcabe240-5.html#unique-entry-id-5

Erica Horwood from Altin Kaftira on Vimeo.

]]>the (un)making of the pointe shoealtin@mac.comClipBalletDance2005-11-05T00:55:09+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/c41bd34f806e5d9ea45e2a5b629faad4-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/c41bd34f806e5d9ea45e2a5b629faad4-3.html#unique-entry-id-3It was shot back in 2005 as part of a ballet and film mixed performance with Dutch National Ballet and 5 short clips created by me.
This clip was shot in the Freed factory in London. It was quite n experience to visit the factory. It was nothing like I had expected it to be.
Nothing shinny, nothing glamorous about the location but these shoe masters did produce some special work to keep our ballerinas on their toes ;)
The dancer who features in the video is the former principal dancer Yumiko Takeshima, who now is famously known for her ballet wear that our dancers wear for rehearsals and performances. Visit Yumiko’s site here

]]>2 hearts 1 pulse - a short filmaltin@mac.comShort film2009-01-31T00:28:25+01:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/c0f209d7b9c58d44c9bf3f4e7ebc0678-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/c0f209d7b9c58d44c9bf3f4e7ebc0678-2.html#unique-entry-id-2The film is in Dutch with English subtitles. It was shot in the beautiful location of Marken and Volendam
The film was finalist for Best Short of the Central Florida Film Festival 2009. Lou, our producer travelled to experience the festival. It was quite a journey :)

The team:
Joeri Burggraaf & Wouter Kan as our young and older Jacob
Chantal Demming as the their mother
Tal Mor - co-director
Lou Hamburger - the producer
Laurens Kingma - camera operator
Joshua Menco & Ilias Panaritis - sound

Music from Ludovico Einaudi and Philip Glass
]]>Rachel Oomensaltin@mac.comPortraitModellingDance2009-06-15T00:00:08+02:00http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/a2b355a62bfbe3619582c93467351fa7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.kaftira.com/videoblog/files/a2b355a62bfbe3619582c93467351fa7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1This video was a try out for this video style. It was filmed in one of the ballet studios with minimal light. Actually, one light only :)
Enjoy!

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