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Opening Night 2015: International Shorts I
From tappers to Kenyan warriors to rollerskaters and ballerinas, see our top shorts of 2015 in this eclectic mix of screendance from around the world. Evening begins at 6:30 with a prosecco welcome reception for all ticketholders and a post-screening VIP reception upstairs for filmmakers and festival passholders.
Thursday, October 8 | 7:30 pm
Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco
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Single Ticket: $20 (Students: $17, ID required)
Escualo
(USA, 2014) 3:57Director: Martin & Facundo Lombard
Choreographer: Martin & Facundo Lombard A powerfully rhythmic new piece from the acclaimed Lombard twins, set to music by Astor Piazzolla.
Inheritor Recordings
(Canada, 2014) 6:20Director: Brian Johnson & Lisa Gelley
Choreographer: Josh Martin
View Trailer | More Info Co-presented by Consulate General of Canada
Inheritor Recordings is a reimagined adaptation of an excerpt from 605’s original stage work, and warps time and place to augment and expand 605’s raw physicality. A quiet uprising of a new generation.
Pas
(Canada, 2015) 14:40Director: Frédérique Cournoyer-Lessard
Choreographer: Stéphanie Thellen
View Trailer Co-presented by Consulate General of Canada
Through her life, Rose has followed her passion for dance by using it as a singular method of communication essential to connecting with her surroundings.
Keeping Time
(Ireland, 2014) 10:42Director: Steve Woods
Choreographer: Fernando Anuang’a
View Film A modern power-station worker leaves his place of work and finds an ancient warrior waiting for him. Keeping Time is a statement that the past is part of the present. Our modernity is really a veneer.
Uath Lochans
(UK, 2015) 6:30Director: Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson
Choreographer: Marc Brew
View Trailer Co-presented by Axis Dance Company
A physical response to place by choreographer Marc Brew.
Lost in Motion II
(Canada, 2013) 4:34Director: Ben Shirinian
Choreographer: Guillaume Côté Co-presented by Consulate General of Canada
Featuring National Ballet of Canada Principal Dancer Heather Ogden, the film combines original choreography, stylized art direction and seamless VFX to visually interpret the experience of an artist baring her soul on stage.
As Is
(USA, 2015) 3:57Director: Kate Duhamel
Choreographer: Erik Wagner
More Info As Damian Smith ends his long and celebrated stage career, As Is brings us up close to the raw beauty and artistry of this master dancer.
Continuum *
(France, 2014) 9:15Director: Natalianne Boucher
Choreographer: Stéphane Fratti
View Trailer | More Info A choreographic film mixing dance and animation. Our perception of time and its connection with space is explored in movement through the symbolic depiction of sand’s matter.
Lay Me Low
(Canada, 2015) 7:50Director: Marlene Millar
Choreographer: Sandy Silva
View Trailer Co-presented by Consulate General of Canada
Performed by ten dancers, musicians, and singers Lay Me Low cuts right to the heart to communicate a universal feeling of loss while evoking a paradoxical sense of intimacy.
Angsters
(USA, 2014) 7:13Director: Benjamin Epps
Choreographer: Amy Cain
View Trailer | More Info Dancers explore the anxieties of artistic life through movement amongst large scale exterior sculpture and paintings.
* Student Film | back to festival schedule
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