2017 Films
We are pleased to announce programming for our 8th annual festival, featuring over 90 dance films at multiple San Francisco venues October 19 – 22. Along with screenings, the festival will include opening and closing receptions, post-screening discussions with filmmakers, live performances, and special presentations. For the first time we will present an exhibition of VR 360 films where participants in headsets can virtually step inside various dance films. Also new is a full day of live performance captures, bringing important new works from Europe to San Francisco for the first time. As a special extension of the festival, an exciting collaboration with Catharine Clark Gallery will extend the festival with an exhibition of art/experimental dance films running from September 9 through October 28. The festival will wind up on Sunday October 22 at 6:00 p.m. with a celebration of Bay Area artists, including screenings of local shorts and the premieres of two new films from SFDFF’s annual filmmaking project the Co-Laboratory. The evening will culminate in an awards ceremony featuring for the first time cash prizes in eight categories.
A Full Circle – Movement #3
(Canada, 2016) 8:55Director: Rodrigo Rocha-Campos
Choreographer: Erika Mitsuhashi, Michael Ethan Kong
View Trailer | Schedule Two siblings on an emotional roller-coaster vie for dominance. After reaching the deepest bottom, how will they make it back up to the light?
A History of Cuban Dance
(United States, 2016) 8:02Director: Lucy Walker
Choreographer: Ballet de la Television Cubana, The National Afro Cuban Ballet, The Danza Abierta, Susana Pous
View Trailer | Schedule Transport yourself to Cuba through the magic of virtual reality and experience the story of the island revealed in the evolution of moves and styles from Afro-Cuban santeria through rumba, cha-cha-cha, modern, salsa, breakdancing and reggaeton.
A Swan Lake
(Norway, 2014) 98 minDirector: Jeff Tudor
Choreographer: Alexander Ekman
View Trailer | Schedule Alexander Ekman’s witty, inventive and powerful take on the most famous ballet of all. Recorded at Norwegian National Ballet.
After You’re Gone
(Russian Federation, 2016) 120 minDirector: Anna Matison
View Trailer | Schedule Aleksey Temnikov (Sergey Bezrukov), renowned ballet dancer and acknowledged genius, discovers that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Before this happens, Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet and answer the question “What will I leave behind after I am gone?”
Airplay
(United States, 2017) 2:15Director: Lauren Bedal
Choreographer: Lauren Bedal
Schedule A young boy left to his own devices lets his imagination run free.
Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer
(United States, 2017) 83 minDirector: David Barba, James Pellerito
Choreographer: Petipa, Ratmansky, Gomes
View Trailer | Schedule Unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of ballet star Marcelo Gomes. From his struggle to reach the top of the ballet world, to his complicated relationship with his father, the film takes us on Marcelo’s journey from the heart of the Amazon to the most important International stages.
And So Do I
(Lebanon, 2016) 13:00Director: Jana G. Younes
Choreographer: Jens Bjerregaard
View Trailer | Schedule A man lost his wife while she was giving birth to his little girl. The trauma, even after 10 years, still causes him hallucinations. In his own bubble, he imagines his wife is still with him.
Anicca
(United States, 2016) 6:07Director: Cecilia Sweet-Coll
Choreographer: Cecilia Sweet-Coll
View Trailer | Schedule An award-winning visual music piece in virtual reality using motion capture of dancers.
Ballet Dancers in Slow Motion
(United States, 2016) 5:25Director: Jayson Tang
Choreographer: Pascal Molat
View Trailer | Schedule Combination of twelve videos of San Francisco Ballet dancers shot in extreme slow motion.
Battle Grounds: The Hard Hits of Female Poppers
(United States, 2016) 36:23Director: Devon de Leña
View Trailer | Schedule Facing both isolation and sexism within the street dancing community, Angel Alviar-Langley decides to organize the first international dance battle for female-identified poppers in Seattle.
Beating
(Czech Republic, 2014) 6:10Director: Kari Sulc
Choreographer: Tereza Hradilkova
Schedule In this observational dance film, the camera work and editing bring to the surface not only the beauty of the body in motion but also the unexpectedly archaic, ritual dimension of an ordinary boxing training session.
The Big Sofa
(United Kingdom, 2016) 3:00Director: Deborah Tiso
Choreographer: Deborah Tiso
Schedule A bizarre tale surrounding an extended family that are awoken suddenly by the earsplitting sound track of the film they are watching together, late in to the night.
Blown Away
(United States, 2017) 2:24Director: David Masters
Choreographer: Dion Pratt
View Trailer | Schedule From the firing of the first electrons to the cosmic journey across space. Blown Away traces the genesis and impact of sound waves on a waiting listener.
The Body as Archive
(Germany, 2016) 48:58Director: Michael Maurissens
View Trailer | Schedule Documentary film based on research that considers ways in which the dancer’s body can be regarded as archive. A few hypotheses are intended as a frame of its research; is the body of a dancer only a repository of forms of usage?
Ceiling
(United States, 2016) 3:53Director: Katherine Helen Fisher
Choreographer: Katherine Helen Fisher
Schedule Ceiling focuses on a dancer’s repetitive leap as a physical allegory for striving. Shot in the Angeles Forest on the Phantom Camera, the film weaves gender and landscape into the body’s potential for movement in the tradition of Eadweard Muybridge.
Cold Storage
(Finland, 2016) 8:46Director: Thomas Freundlich
Choreographer: Valtteri Raekallio
View Trailer | Schedule On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely ice fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the sea ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother. A wild all-night drinking and dancing party ensues.
Curing Albrecht
(United Kingdom, 2016) 5:00Director: Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple
Choreographer: Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple
Schedule A young man checks into a bespoke institution, hoping to be cured of his inability to stop dancing.
Cycles
(Canada, 2016) 4:00Director: Joe Cobden
Choreographer: Joe Cobden
View Trailer | Schedule Playful choreography, set to bright piano harmonies by Russian composer G. I. Gurdjieff, tells the story of a man reliving the memories of a failed relationship over and over.
Dance for Life
(Canada, 2016) 4:00Director: Ella Cooper
Schedule Short dance film meets documentary that features a once-impoverished minor-league soccer player from Mozambique, who gives up everything to pursue a life of dance in Canada.
Dance to the Music in your Heart
(United States, 2017) 7:50Director: Qiying Lin
Choreographer: Antoine Hunter, Ellen S Chang
Schedule How can a deaf person dance? Dance to the music in your heart.
Dance With Your Heart (Tengo Talento Cuba)
(United States, 2017) 10:21Director: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Choreographer: Jennyselt Galata Calvo
View Trailer | Schedule Shot in a part of Havana that is rarely seen by tourists, this short documentary follows a dancer as she seeks to keep the legacy of Afro-Cuban culture, dance and religion alive.
Dancin’ the Camera
(Netherlands, 2015) 8:48Director: Pieter-Rim de Kroon
Schedule A tap dancer’s adventure in the mechanical world of black-and-white film shot on an original 35mm camera made in the 1920s, the era when tap was all the rage. As well as being the lens into this world the camera is the set and a character, joining with a pianist to entice the dancer into a duet.
Dive
(United States, 2017) 5:14Director: Charlie Stellar
Choreographer: Haley Wilson
Schedule An alluring journey into the fluid of human and earth.
The Earth Will Come
(Germany/USA, 2017) 3:53Director: Katelyn Stiles
Choreographer: Kira Kirsch
Schedule Through an intimate encounter between a woman and a forest in the outskirts of Berlin, this short film questions romanticism and our desire to connect to nature, amidst a worldwide environmental crisis.
Fire and Ashes, Making the Ballet RAkU
(United States, 2017) 60 minDirector: Shirley Sun
Choreographer: Yuri Possokhov
Schedule Fire and Ashes, Making the Ballet RAkU documents the collaboration of great contemporary masters at the zenith of their careers. Yuri Possokhov choreographed RAkU for prima ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan as the defining role of her career.
The First Date
(United States, 2016) 5:26Director: Mary John Frank
Choreographer: Mary John Frank
Schedule Despite the awkward small talk, disagreements, and their own destructive tendencies, Natalie and David show up for their first date and discover that they actually make excellent partners in crime.
Flock Together
(United States, 2017) 5:00Director: Alex Irwin
Choreographer: Alex Irwin
Schedule Three birds of different feathers, each proud and distinct in behavior, cross paths. Will they learn to play nice?
Genome
(New Zealand, 2016) 6:20Director: Loughlan Prior, Jeremy Brick
Choreographer: Loughlan Prior
View Trailer | Schedule Genome combines the work of artist Max Patté, filmmaker Jeremy Brick and choreographer Loughlan Prior, with dancers of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Ghost Story
(United States, 2017) 7:33Director: Sarah Elgart
Choreographer: Sarah Elgart & the Dancers
View Trailer | Schedule Four dancers search for a narrative as they prowl Bjarke Ingels’ monumental Manhattan skyscraper VIA 57 West, with a mysterious red figure often seen following in their wake.
Girls and Boys
(United States, 2016) 13:25Director: Tomasz Gubernat
Choreographer: Barbara Kulpa
View Trailer | Schedule An intimate portrait of a dance instructor and her disinterested teenage students.
Gogi
(Australia, 2017) 9:34Director: Viviane Frehner, Stefan Jose
Choreographer: Viviane Frehner, Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White
Schedule A poetic narrative of three sisters, separated from each other and stuck in their own worlds, Gogi is a short dance film that drives home the importance of unison and tells about isolation and longing for connection.
Haud Close Tae Me
(United Kingdom, 2017) 4:27Director: Eve McConnachie
Choreographer: Christopher Hampson
View Trailer | Schedule A short duet between a professional ballerina and a 65-year-old dancer examining the connection between our younger and older selves. The film is inspired by a specially commissioned poem by Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay, who narrates the poem in Scots-English.
How You Look At It
(United States, 2015) 8:30Director: Wendy Seyb
Choreographer: Wendy Seyb
View Trailer | Schedule A story about how love at first sight changes a man’s perspective of the world around him. With a little help from his inner theme songs, his environment comes together to support his quest to be with his new sighted love…or at least, say hello.
In Essential Drop
(Italy, 2016) 1:02Director: Gabriele Rizzi
Schedule It is from an “Essential Drop” that something unique and original can emerge. The drop as source of life that changes its shape and a show that celebrates the art of essence.
The Indexical Dance-a-Thon!
(Canada, 2016) 4:15Director: Evann Siebens
Choreographer: Cora Bos-Krose, Justine A. Chambers, Kevin Cregan, Jane Ellison, James Gnam, Amy Raymond
View Trailer | Schedule Shot in seminal dance environments Ballett Frankfurt in Germany and The Western Front in Canada, the film mixes professional and amateur dancers, probing their gaze and the search for the sublime through simple improvisational gestures.
Jamais Vu
(Republic of Korea, 2017) 7:30Director: Kim Modeun
Choreographer: Kim Modeun
View Trailer | Schedule Short film depicting the never-ending journey of life and the liminal space experienced in the intervals between life and death.
Jonah
(United States, 2016) 5:23Director: Andrew Michael Ellis
Choreographer: Ernest Felton Baker
Schedule An interview with a former African-American slave accompanies a powerful dance vignette of an urban man in extremis. The juxtaposition of past and present raises questions about inherited trauma and the possibility of regeneration.
Juliet, Juliet & Juliet
(Sweden, 2017) 8:41Director: Giovanni Bucchieri
Choreographer: Giovanni Bucchieri
Schedule Dance superstar Ana Laguna and acting legend Stina Ekblad meet with dancer, choreographer and director Giovanni Bucchieri in this expressive story about an unexpected meeting.
Kick Jump Twist
(United States, 2017) 4:29Director: Mimi Cave
Choreographer: Danielle Agami
Schedule Official music video for Sylvan Esso’s ‘Kick Jump Twist’ starring Gary Reagan of Ate9 Dance Company.
Land of All
(Slovenia, 2016) 5:37Director: Michal Rynia, Nastja Bremec, Giuseppe Ippolitono
Choreographer: Michal Rynia, Nastja Bremec
Schedule Two bodies move together exploring an imaginary world where nothing divides them and where art is a language and the power of connection, construction and creation is the main goal.
Libera
(United States, 2017) 6:19Director: Walter Yamazaki
Choreographer: Lauren Jonas, Diablo Ballet dancers
Schedule Short film examining the dancer in two worlds—the world of constraint and the world of infinite freedom—and how they must strive to find balance between the two.
Lifeboat
(United States, 2017) 5:16Director: Luke Willis
Choreographer: Luke Willis
Schedule A short dance film in virtual reality. Through dance, a young man chases after a girl and repeatedly fails to win her unyielding support.
Light
(United States, 2017) 57 minDirector: Tatsu Aoki
Choreographer: Lenora Lee
Schedule Light is a film in which dance, memory and music collide in a visual and aural landscape; a meditation on women being propelled into the unknown by courage and faith to risk their lives and everything they have for freedom.
Lovebytes
(United Kingdom, 2014) 3:13Director: Jasper Valentine
Choreographer: Omari ‘Motion’ Carter
Schedule A short screendance film which uses British Sign Language influences, combined with dance and music, to show one man’s walk of lamentation, illustrating a journey of growth from a moment of heartbreak.
María Manuela
(United States, 2017) 27:19Director: Emma Lanier
Choreographer: José Maldonado
Schedule A choreographer breaks flamenco’s gender norms to speak out against machismo, while a young filmmaker documents and reflects on intersecting questions of ownership, meaning, and resistance.
Mata Hari
(Netherlands, 2016) 115 minDirector: Jeff Tudor
Choreographer: Ted Brandsen
View Trailer | Schedule Director and award-winning choreographer Ted Brandsen has taken the turbulent life of the Dutch dancer and spy Mata Hari as his inspiration for a lavish new full-length ballet. A new score has been specially commissioned from Grammy-nominated composer Tarik O’Regan.
Midsummer Night’s Dream
(France, 2017) 97 minDirector: Tommy Pascal
Choreographer: Alexander Ekman
View Trailer | Schedule A powerful contemporary piece by Alexander Ekman that explores the energy and the mysteries conjured up by the summer solstice. This vast and ambitious project is danced by the Royal Swedish Ballet and set to music by Mikael Karlsson.
Move
(Canada, 2016) 3:45Director: Marlene Millar
Choreographer: Sandy Silva
View Trailer | Schedule Gathered in a train car waiting on the tracks, destination unknown, nine dancers and singers perform a soulful rendition of the gospel song “You Gotta Move” accompanied by body percussion.
Moving Afrika
(South Africa, 2016) 5:02Director: Valeria Lo Meo, Michele Manzini
Schedule Expressive documentary set in South African townships that seeks to answer the question “what is reality?”
Moving Athens
(United Kingdom, 2015) 4:58Director: Jevan Chowdhury
Choreographer: Emi Korfia
Schedule In this film, set in the streets of Athens against a backdrop of urban decay as well as architectural durability, dancers improvise across a range of dance genres, from ballet to street.
MULTIDENTITY
(Netherlands, 2016) 4:30Director: Tycho Hupperets
Choreographer: Tycho Hupperets
Schedule Playful exploration of how movement and clothing can create identity.
Night Theme
(United States, 2017) 6:15Director: Ben Estabrook, Heath Orchard
Choreographer: Meghan Horowitz
Schedule From an inauspicious melody written for and recorded on the 1970s album Kill City by Iggy Pop and James Williamson, Night Theme was given new life by this orchestral arrangement, contemporary choreography, and a modern take on psychedelic imagery.
The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart
(Germany, 2014) 88 minDirector: Mari Inamasu
Choreographer: Maurice Béjart
View Trailer | Schedule Maurice Béjart’s compelling staging of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been enchanting audiences worldwide since its inception and its idea of universal brotherhood remains highly topical.
No Deal
(United States, 2016) 5:29Director: Devin Jamieson
Choreographer: Jillian Meyers, Jeff Mortensen
Schedule Washed up. Washed away. Inebriated negotiation. Gone astray. A void without reason. Reality unpeeled. Two strangers meeting, unsuccessfully. No deal.
Our Canada, My Story: Thomas Poulsen
(Canada, 2016) 5:04Director: Salima Stanley-Bhanji
View Trailer | Schedule Thomas Poulsen shares the story of his performance career as a dancer and actor and his life as a person with disabilities.
Over the Edge (Preko Ruba)
(Croatia, 2017) 10:00Director: Vladimira Spindler
Choreographer: Mirna Spori
Schedule Poetic non-narative documentary film about retiring principal dancer Mirna Sporis. The film takes place in the Croatian National Theatre, Mirna’s theatrical home of more than 25 years.
Paul Taylor Dance Company Living Brochure
(United States, 2017) 1:37Director: Andrew Asnes
Choreographer: Paul Taylor
Schedule Explore The Paul Taylor Dance Company repertoire in 360 degrees as you immerse yourself onstage with the dancers.
Persecuta
(United States, 2017) 2:23Director: Martin & Facundo Lombard
Choreographer: Martin & Facundo Lombard
Schedule A new powerful dance scene by the Lombard Twins.
Rebels on Pointe
(Canada, 2017) 90 minDirector: Bobbi Jo Hart
View Trailer | Schedule Rebels on Pointe is the first-ever cinema verité documentary that intimately follows Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male, drag ballet company founded in 1974 that has a cult following around the world.
Recycled Movement
(Kenya, 2015) 3:50Director: Bö Lee
Choreographer: Bö Lee
Schedule Three Kenyan dancers and a Korean filmmaker met and shared two weeks. This film shows their collaborative attempt to “revive an abandoned world through our dance.”
Room
(South Africa, 2016) 12:00Director: Daniel Morcos
Choreographer: Kristina Johnstone
Schedule Room explores the dynamics and relationship between two bodies that occupy a particular environment with a specific vocabulary drawing from classical movement. Out of this is born a nuanced narrative as the two bodies on screen strive for synchronicity.
SAMT (silence)
(Lebanon, 2016) 15:00Director: Aoun Chadi
Choreographer: Aoun Chadi
View Trailer | Schedule In a fanatic dictatorship, modern dance is the secret code of the silent resistance. At out-of-the-way places in town young people celebrate the hidden joy of life with their bodies, cope with the terror they experienced. SAMT, is the introduction of a dysfunctional society that is about to implode.
SEE | OBEY
(Finland, 2015) 15:05Director: Jouka Valkama
Choreographer: Susanna Leinonen
View Trailer | Schedule SEE | OBEY tells three different narratives about human emotions, everyday events and conflicts by physical expression and movement. Time is manipulated by cinematic means and the moments that happen in a blink of an eye get a new depth with slow motion. The film uses both professional dancers and almost a hundred volunteers.
Shake the Dust
(United States, 2015) 85 minDirector: Adam Sjöberg
View Trailer | Schedule From executive producer and rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones, this documentary pays tribute to the art of breakdancing and its influence on young people around the world.
Silent Resonance
(United States, 2017) 4:07Director: Scott Squires
Choreographer: Price Suddarth
View Trailer | Schedule A virtual-reality dance experience from Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) brings you inside the mind of a dancer.
Six Solos
(United Kingdom, 2016) 6:30Director: Simon Fildes
Choreographer: Sang Jijia
View Trailer | Schedule Individual performances or communal expression? We can become more than the just the sum of parts if we come together.
Smoke-Clad Warrior
(Germany, 2014) 2:52Director: Mali Lazell, Mads Dinesen, Adrian Kuenzel
Choreographer: ANIMA‡
Schedule The Journey of a warrior.
Solar Duplex
(United States, 2016) 10:00Director: Victoria Marks, Jingqiu Guan
Choreographer: Victoria Marks
Schedule A dance for a man and a woman, who are never fully together, but never apart. Bound in time and in parallel play.
Sonder
(Romania, 2016) 12:20Director: Simona Deaconescu
Choreographer: Simona Deaconescu
View Trailer | Schedule A visually abstract and poetic film about the human being confronted with nature, the machine and himself.
The Spot
(United States, 2017) 2:38Director: Ted Ely
Choreographer: Karla Garcia
View Trailer | Schedule A group of men and women from different walks of life meet up at The Spot, where they groove and let loose to release the stress and negativity of everyday life.
Steadfast
(Czech Republic, 2014) 9:04Director: Regina Hofmanova
Choreographer: Regina Hofmanova
View Trailer | Schedule Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen, Steadfast is a stylized take on themes of solitude and isolation.
Stray Notes
(United States, 2017) 4:36Director: Kate Duhamel
Choreographer: Courtney Henry, Michael Montgomery, Babatunji
Schedule Three dancers find a simple, magical harmony, but harmonies can become complex.
Stopgap in Stop Motion
(United Kingdom, 2016) 4:40Director: Stephen Featherstone
Choreographer: Lucy Bennett
View Trailer Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meets and performs in unison.
The Sum of All Parts
(Netherlands, 2017) 4:00Director: Lukas Timulak, Peter Bilak
Choreographer: Lukas Timulak
Schedule A playful short dance film connecting five dancers through geometry and geometric patterns creating a dynamic moiré effect.
Take Your Time
(United States, 2017) 4:49Director: Max Sachar, Natasha Adorlee Johnson
Choreographer: Natasha Adorlee Johnson
Schedule Take Your Time is a raw and powerful performance-art piece that explores the concept of time & relationships by following a duet as they navigate complex obstacles and spaces.
This is not Magritte
(Russian Federation, 2016) 5:54Director: Ivan Skorik
Choreographer: Ivan Skorik
View Trailer | Schedule A story inspired by paintings of René Magritte. The film was created as a part of Cinema Dance Project at the Acting Faculty of Moscow Film School.
Three on Four
(United States, 2016) 3:41Director: Marty Buhler
Choreographer: Marty Buhler
Schedule A film about the re-imagination of sound and movement.
Through You
(United States, 2017) 12:00Director: Lily Baldwin, Saschka Unseld
Choreographer: Lily Baldwin
Schedule Using dance to inhabit a common mortal story of love born, lived, lost, burned, and seemingly gone forever, Through You is a live-action VR richly infused with an atmosphere of passion.
To the Ends of the Fingertips
(United Kingdom, 2016) 3:11Director: Roswitha Chesher
Choreographer: Sophie Arstall, Elizabeth Barker
View Trailer | Schedule Slipping through the fingers of time, we follow a search for freedom and fulfilment in this visually rich and surreal tale. A Big Dance & Channel 4 commission.
Unspoken
(United States, 2016) 6:05Director: RJ Muna
Choreographer: Dexandro Montalvo
Schedule Some of the Bay Area’s most talented artistic minds join forces to create this haunting, spastic, yet beautiful piece that explores human emotion and stretches the imagination.
Vanitas
(Brazil, 2017) 5:21Director: Vinícius Cardoso
Choreographer: Samuel Kavalerski
Schedule Short film exhorting us to think about passions—and also the ephemerality of life.
The Wake
(Ireland, 2015) 19:20Director: Oonagh Kearney
Choreographer: Cindy Cummings
View Trailer | Schedule Drama Queen. Diva. Looking for attention. In Ireland, we silence women in the courts, silence women in the health-care system, silence women in the church, silence women on the national stage… but this silencing also happens at home, in the house, in the body.
Wake
(Canada, 2016) 6:05Director: Katherine Macnaughton
Choreographer: Ashley Werhun
View Trailer | Schedule A reflection on the isolation that technology can create, Wake is an invitation to reconnect and rebuild our relationships with the people and elements around us.
We
(United States, 2017) 2:00Director: LuLu Meng
Schedule A short film in which drawing and rapid body movement illustrate the strokes of the letters w and e, we deals with the coexistence of conflicting matters, rationality/emotion, discipline/ignorance, singularity/harmony.
We No Longer Wait for the Barbarians
(Italy, 2016) 8:20Director: Alain El Sakhawi
Choreographer: Alain El Sakhawi, Valeria Zampardi, Fernando Roldan Ferrer
View Trailer | Schedule Allegory on the myth of the original sin of Adam and Eve transposed to the contemporary world.
White Spirit (Du blanc à l’âme)
(France, 2015) 26:00Director: Aude Thuries
Schedule Avoid blanks in a conversation, it’s an art. Contrary to creating, which is a job, more precisely White’s job, a man with white clothes interferes in conversations at appropriate — or quite inconvenient — moments in order to disturb them.
Who Do You Trust?
(United States, 2017) 9:45Director: Hi-Jin Hodge, David Hodge
Choreographer: Yayoi Kambara
View Trailer | Schedule Who Do You Trust explores the universal question of what trust means and how we perceive it. Through modern dance the film draws viewers deep into the question of how our ever-changing society interacts with the concepts of trust.
W I L D
(France, 2017) 13:22Director: Adrien Ouaki
Choreographer: Adrien Ouaki
View Trailer | Schedule During questioning a man tells us his story and the events that brought him here.
Without Reason (Bala Sabab)
(France, 2015) 10:44Director: Emma Humphris
Choreographer: Mohammed Khansa, Emma Humphris
View Trailer| Schedule A Lebanese inmate travels through his memory from his cell, repeating the steps and actions that led to this detention; a tragic and lonely dance that will transform his identity and his life forever.
Womb
(Switzerland, 2016) 32:00Director: Gilles Jobin
Choreographer: Gilles Jobin
View Trailer | Schedule Womb is a 3D short film which marries stereoscopic images, dance, visual art and music. It is an existential tracking shot, an abstract analogy of life’s journey that draws on the depth of space and the volume of bodies to trigger a contemplative and emotional response.
Women’s Christmas Night
(Ireland, 2016) 5:30Director: Oonagh Kearney
Choreographer: Jessica Kennedy, Megan Kennedy
Schedule A highly visual and feminist response to Séan Ó’Riordáin’s famous Irish language poem.
You
(United Kingdom, 2015) 5:55Director: Graham Clayton-Chance
Choreographer: Nigel Charnock
View Trailer | Schedule A dance monologue. Verbal and physical slapstick reveals darker truths about love, sex and relationships. Taken from the archive of the late Nigel Charnock, one in a series of films celebrating his work in new films of classic performance pieces.
Zero-G (Schwerelos)
(Austria, 2016) 9:00Director: Jannis Lenz
Schedule Zero-G follows a group of Parkour “tracers” from Vienna and slam artist Fatima Moumouni, who pens a poem on the city and young people’s attitude to life.
