GIRL WALK // ALL DAY screening at the Korean American Film Festival in NYC – June 6
June 1st, 2012 by Mr. C
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Director: Jacob Krupnick
Stars: Anne Marsen, John Doyle, Daisuke Omiya
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I wasn’t sure what to expect with GIRL WALK // ALL DAY – a feature length dance music film shot in the streets and public spaces of NYC, but as soon as the visuals and the music unfolded on the screen – I started to get the fever for the flava’! Can I kick it? Yes – you can! Can I kick it? You most certainly can!
The movie follows three dancers around the city : The Girl (Anne Marsen), The Creep (John Doyle), and The Gentlemen (Daisuke Omiya) as they unleash impromptu dance moves to serenade the unexpecting crowds to the entertaining mashup-mixtape soundtrack – ALL DAY by GIRL TALK with an insidious blend of tunes from the pop, rock, rap, metal, & punk genre’s! The 3 performers in the film specialize in different styles of dance such as The Girl who blends ballet with street and modern dance. The Gentlemen has a hybrid specialty of the pitter-patter, light on your feet, tap dance grooves with a modern broadway flare while The Creep’s style is all about urban swagger while freestyling to the beats of the streets offering signature pop and lock moves with a B-Boy stance as well as other modern day hip hop gyrations!
More importantly though, each of these three performers’ main goal in my mind at least was to invoke emotions of dance and the freedom of expression to the concrete masses. There’s a time for organization and structure within the everyday grind but with Girl Walk, it was time to let the hair down and boogie! The film delivered a subtle message and maybe to even a bigger extent – a movement to just enjoy life, let loose, and just be happy in general to have the privilege to roam planet earth while creatively expressing yourself in a constructive fashion! And who can find a better way to have a flashdance attack while taking the viewers on a tour of the greatest city in the world, New York – New York! Some sights that the fleet footed dancers would take us on included: The Highline Park, Wall Street area, Madison Square Park, Red Hook, The Williamsburg Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, Yankee Stadium, Harlem, the L Train, Grand Central Station, and the Chinatown shops on East Broadway underneath the Manhattan Bridge! We would watch the trio get busy struttin’ their stuff to the wonderful mashup mixes with millions of miles of samples fused together by Girl Talk! Some of these well known tunes & samples would include Black Sabbath’s – War Pigs, Ludacris – Move Bitch, N.W.A. – Express yourself, Fat Joe – Lean Back, Portishead – Sour Times, The Toadies – Possum Kingdom, INXS – Need you tonight, U2 – With or Without You, and De La Soul – Me, Myself, & I to just name a few! Some of my favorite mashup mixes from All Day includes Black Sabbath – War of Pigs with Ludacris’ – Move Bitch, Radiohead’s – Creep with ODB’s – Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Young MC’s – Bust a move with Kylie Minogue’s – La La La, and Depeche Mode’s – I just can’t get enough with Sugar Hill Gang’s – Rappers Delight.
Some of my favorite segments from the film came on Chapter 7 // High and Low – when The Gentlemen had some outlaw run ins with a Parkour performer before proceeding to literally run into a Rage Against the Machine lady with a vengeance! Luckily, the Gentlemen was saved by the Buster Keaton-Charlie Chaplin like – fun & goofy style of The Girl. It truly was a high voltage scene enhanced by the music and performances!
To put it quite simply, Girl Walk // All Day is an infectious, contagious, & collective work of art that makes you want to just get up, appreciate life, and dance! Now, pass that along and get your freak on!
Girl Walk // All Day screens at the Korean American Film Festival in New York on June 6th at 8pm at the White Box in the Lower East Side of Manhattan! Bring your dancing shoes and attitude to match! The director and producer of the film are scheduled to be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
Other screenings for KAFFNY are held at the Anthology Film Archives on 2nd avenue!
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