SFDFF Presents Cosmogony

Cosmogony

A Live Digital Performance
Created by Geneva-based digital contemporary dance company Cie Gilles Jobin, Cosmogony is a live digital performance in real time featuring three dancers motion captured live from Geneva and screened in real time remotely. 

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Film still from TONARI

Bay area showcase

SFDFF continues its tradition of supporting local artists with this spring showcase of dance, film, and community. Featuring nine stunning dance films.

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2023 Call for Entries

Call for Entries

DEADLINE MAY 8. SFDFF welcomes submissions of dance-based narrative shorts and features, documentaries, live performance captures, installations, and music videos. All forms of dance are welcome.

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Welcome to Dance Film SF

Founded in 2010, Dance Film SF is a nonprofit organization that brings dance to new audiences through the presentation and development of dance-based media. In addition to presenting the award-winning San Francisco Dance Film Festival, DFSF’s year-round activities include special screenings, panels, and filmmaking workshops. Through our touring and outreach programs, we send highlight reels to international screens and dance media into local schools. DFSF also produces original dance films through our Co-Laboratory program, matching top choreographers with professional filmmakers and creating the time, space, and budget for them to collaborate.

Spring Festival 2023

Cosmogony - May 12 at Catharine Clark Gallery

Bay Area Showcase - Saturday, May 13, 2023

From May 12-13, SFDFF presents our third annual spring festival, a live 2-day event celebrating new ways to experience dance. Encounter Cosmogony, a groundbreaking live digital performance from 6,000 miles away. Celebrate Bay Area artists with a special showcase of dance, film, and community. And learn to dance the Hustle with Abdiel’s gender-neutral Masterclass series. LEARN MORE

Spring Bay Area Showcase

Saturday, May 13. Bay Area artists explore dance on camera with nine films from new filmmakers and veterans alike. From digitally generated dancers to a diverse array of live humans, see how individual voices and movement styles translate to the screen in this mixed collection of narrative and experimental shorts. Learn More / Register Now

2023 Call for Submissions

Now in our 14th season, SFDFF continues to seek groundbreaking work in the field of screendance, and welcomes submissions of dance-based narrative shorts and features, documentaries, live performance captures, installations, and music videos. All forms of dance are welcome. FINAL DEADLINE: MAY 8 / Submit Your Film

SFDFF On the Road

As part of our ongoing outreach efforts to bring dance to a wider audience, DANCE FILM SF offers annual highlight reels of curated shorts from previous years’ festival programming. These rentals are available as streaming, limited-use content and are intended for educational use by schools, libraries and nonprofit cultural institutions. LEARN MORE

Encore Shorts

This bi-monthly, online series spotlights short dance films from our fall festival. Encore Shorts will highlight one film at a time to highlight a filmmaker and their practice, extending SFDFF’s dedication to sharing uniquely compelling dance films all year round. SIGN UP FOR ENCORE SHORTS MAILINGS

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Please consider becoming a new supporter or renewing an annual gift. Thanks again to our loyal dance film lovers who continually inspire and support our efforts to reframe dance through film. DONATE TODAY!