Tue, November 5 @ 7:00 pm
Crossing Culture
Crossing Culture screens eight dance films that celebrate dance as a means for personal expression and cultural defiance in an increasingly authoritarian world. The international lineup features films from Iran, Greece, Congo, Singapore, Japan, and more.
The program includes a live improvised performance by Erik Wagner and Carolina Czechowska
Highlights: Filmmakers Lauren Bedal and Saki Matsumoto will be in attendance
shorts program
November 5, 2019 7:00 pm
Catharine Clark Gallery
Price: $10
Short
Runtime: 90 minutes
Co-Presenter:
Program Films
An Iranian dance film where the performer dances her way through the crowds of narrow bazaar alleys in an elaborate …
Tanin Torabi
Tanin Torabi
Iran/Ireland
The Dérive
Coping with a troubled relationship with his brother, a lonely boy finds himself in an imagined world where he experiences …
Lauren Bedal
Lauren Bedal
(United States, 2019) 5:12 minutes
Imagined Escape
Director Aneil Karia and choreographer Alesandra Seutin’s film INA (LIGHT) sees two dancers struggle through the fear-drenched darkness of oppression …
Aneil Karia
Alesandra Seutin
United Kingdom
INA (LIGHT)
The struggle of a father who works as a tiler. He is fighting to overcome his life difficulties in order …
Vasilis Arvanitakis
Vasilis Arvanitakis
Greece
A N D R E A S
Memory Of Forgiveness is a dance film inspired by the book 50 Years of Silence by Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Dutch …
Saki Matsumoto
Airi Suzuki
Japan
Memory Of Forgiveness
Created, filmed, and recorded in 48 hours in Brazzaville (Congo), T.I.A. (THIS is Africa) features choreographer and dancer Aïpeur Foundou, …
Matthieu Maunier-Rossi
Aïpeur Foundou
France/Congo
T.I.A. (THIS is Africa)
Three dancers enact the best photographs of brilliant Chinese photographer Ren Hang, who was well known for his shocking photographs …
Lei Yuan Bin
Sara Tan
Singapore
