BLUSH is a fiction produced and choreographed by WIM VANDEKEYBUS. A dazzling trip wobbling between the heavenly Corsican decors and shallows of Brussels, inspired by the eponymous show of the company ULTIMA VEZ and carried by the music of DAVID EUGENE EDWARDS (16 Horsepower, Woven Hand). BLUSH is an exploration of the wild unconscious, mythical forests, and contradictory impulsions. Imagination, where the body has its reasons which reason ignores. Attractions, confrontations, repulsions, stories weave where fear and wishes appear in animal transformations. There is also the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a man goes in the place we never kissed to come back with his bride.

“Tumultuous beauty of this unclassifiable object, Dionysian sound mixing of all arts or almost.” Télérama
“A dream between cinema and Dance”, le Monde
«Blush is symptomatic of a wish to open up registers, to return them their essence, as deep as common: that to tell a history. Not out of necessity by way of a classical narration, but by making share and react the spectator facing what he sees. Everything is not more a matter than in form and in look. (…) A lesson of cinema! » Rendez vous – Alex Masson

PRODUCTION

A coproduction SCIAPODE - BART VAN LANGENDONCK - CCCP BELGIUM
With the support of CNC
ARCADI
REGION CORSE
LE FRESNOY
ADAMI
FRANCE 3
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEL FONDS
International sales : POORHOUSE FILMS (the Netherlands)
Distribution : CINE CLASSIC (France), CYDONIA (Spain), GLIRTERHOUSE RECORDS (Germany)
Televisions: RTBF, VRT (Belgium), YLE (Finland), FRANCE 3 (France), THE ARTS CHANNEL (New Zeeland)
THEATRE TV (Japan)
SCHWEITZER FERNSEHEN SRG SSR TV (Switzerland)…
DVD edition: ULTIMA VEZ & SCIAPODE, DISTRIBUTION NAIVE, COLLECTOR EDITOR WIM VANDEKEYBUS

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Selection ACID, Cannes Festival 2005
Competition Long feature Int. Palm Springs International Film Festival 2006
Prix Quality of the Centre National de la Cinématographie
Best Choreography for Film Award, Directors’ Guild of America 2006
Grand Prix, Lincoln Center Film Society, New York
Best Photography - Festival Festival di Palazzo Venezia Arte, Rome 2006
International Film festival de Thessalonique 2005
Pantin Côté Court festival: 2005 & 2007 (Retrospective Wim Vandekeybus)
Nemo festival
Gand International Film Festival 2005
International Film festival about Art, Montréal 2005
Dance Screen IMZ Award – Brighton 2005
Sao Paulo Festival
Beijing Festival
Bratislava Festival 2005
International meeting of Brive 2005
Best Feature Film Award, Aubagne International Film Festival 2005