Finding Me Shorts Program

What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be American? Or Chinese? Or African? What if I don’t fit into these boxes? Sometimes when there are no clear answers, art-making is the way to connect with who we really are.

In Finding Me, discover how screen dance unleashes new possibilities for fluid self-expression. Moving through sexuality, gender, and family relations, these international shorts deftly explore how identities can constrain but also release.

Viewing Details: This digital screening is available to stream between 12:00 pm Sunday, October 18 and 11:59 pm Sunday, October 25. Suggested Viewing Time: Saturday, October 24 at 7:00 pm.

Co-Presenter: BOXBLUR at Catharine Clark Gallery
Community Partner: Second Cast

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Feature Ticket, Festival Pass

$9.00 / $50.00

Available October 18 - October 25, 2020

Runtime: 62 minutes

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Program Films

Making Men examines the question of masculinity. This dance film zooms in on 4 individuals in the process of becoming men.

Antoine Panier

Harold George

(Belgium 2019) 0:19:41

Making Men

Confronting conflicting values, a young woman returned to her home country to rediscover what has shaped her own beliefs by tracing different lessons bestowed to her from her grandmother, her father and her son.

Jingqiu Guan

(United States, 2019) 0:10:44

Family Portrait

Short film inspired by the poem of Angela Figuera Aymerich. “A woman ran. She gasped and ran. She stumbled and ran. With a solid fear below the eyebrows and a child in her arms”

Aïda Colmenero Dïaz

Khadija Nasibo

(Tanzania, 2013) 3:35

EXODUS/ÉXODO

Re:Born – a short dance film about getting up.

Fleur Bax, Annemijn Rijk

Annemijn Rijk

(Netherlands, 2019) 0:10:24

Re-Born

Becoming is a story of a young man, David, told mostly through movement. It’s a story of becoming, an exploration of self identity and dealing with trauma expressed through dance.

Irina Khokhlova

David Chicaeme

(United States, 2019) 6:52

Becoming

This garden is a video designed to capture the essence of the beautiful earth. To highlight the silence of the trees and listen to the streams flow. For humans to take a second and really focus on what the earth has to offer, Are we allies or enemies?

Marvelle Reed , Shawn Hawkins

Shawn Hawkins

(United States, 2020) 0:05:13

Beautiful Earth

A disappointed boy walks in his suburban residence where he lives. But alone in his room, he creates another reality in which his dreams, fantasies and fears mingle through dance.

Mathis Moulin

(France, 2020) 4:04

You Boy – Arigato Massaï

Tired of being questioned about the material I was posting on social media, I decided to explain myself. Created during shelter-in-place at my apartment in San Francisco.

Benjamin Freemantle

(United States, 2020) 0:01:48