art & experimental
“The Road Less Traveled” By William Miller
“The Road Less Traveled” is a portrait of Salomé Pressac, a breathtaking dancer with two heavily contrasting sides to her. The film explores her feelings towards her craft and her journey so far, breaking away from an ascending career as a rising star in the classical dance world to embrace a more instinctive and visceral style that truly connects to herself.
“Room” By Mae Mann
The toughest battle you'll ever fight is the one within yourself. “Room” is a movement-based film that explores the complexities of depression.
“Soteria” By Liam Cushing
The story of a woman after she finds a recording that recounts a didactic poem to a singular place of salvation. Embarking on a journey as she attempts to follow rituals that she believes will get her closer to her salvation, she discovers her final destination was not what she expected.
“Save The Future” By Bárbara Fdez
This fashion film underlines the need for change in order to survive as people. Because we live in an era of consumerism where clothes are not bought responsibly. What would happen if clothes treated us as we treat them?
“Because We Are Strange Creatures” By Jo Motoyo
We, as humans, try to live together as one, all the while struggling to comprehend, and suffering under, our own fates which have already been decided for us the moment we are born.
“Neptune’s Dream” By Alex Fischman Cárdenas
Neptune’s Dream features two proteges of modern dance icons: Jonah Bokaer, former dancer of Merce Cunningham and Michael Trusnovec, former dancer of Paul Taylor Dance Company in a film directed by New York based Peruvian filmmaker, Alex Fishman Cárdenas.
“Unquiet” By Charles Wahl
Shot on 16mm, Unquiet is an observational glimpse into intimate, and personal moments of people experiencing anxiety. The film isn’t a traditional linear story, but rather an observation of people and a state of mind told visually to convey an atmospheric tone and feeling.
“Own The Floor” By Ben Dean
These New Yorkers reimagine NYC as their dance floor, pushing the boundaries of what dance and dancers look like while finding power and freedom in movement.
“Mataki” By Ridwan Adeniyi Abdullateef
Until the awakening, the Baju tribe had long forgotten this art, a form of expression that brings solace, togetherness and joy. This call re-unites the tribe as they move to rhythm, passing through space and time, following that one voice that leads them back to their purpose.
“MOONLIGHT SERENADE” By Ruslan Aksenov
A poetically visual ocean serenade for the moon - where the moon is feminine and the ocean is masculine. This is a story about acceptance, strength, timidity, weakness and love.
“The Crafting” By Brayden Harry
The Crafting visualizes the idea that we are limited in our ability to attain perfection but there is beauty when we surrender in the contention for control.
“UNISON” By Franck Trozzo Kazagui
Yin Yue, founder of New York based contemporary dance company YY Dance Company, creates new work for Berlin based dancers Yi-Chi Lee, Annalise Van Even, and Lukas Malkowski in “Unison” - a journey of dancers traveling between space and time through magnetic energy directed by Berlin-based French director Franck Trozzo Kazagui.
“Moments In Between” By Justin Kaminuma
This intimate personal film is an amalgamation of a year’s worth of footage - a diary of experiences I have collected depicting moments in my life that I would have otherwise forgotten.
“Portal” By Alexander Ronsdorf
Slow but disruptive, it enters the world of the protagonist. Shining with a mystical and alien-like glow. Calling him to enter in. It awakens curiosity in the Character, what he might find behind the transcendent glow of the gate that seems not to be of this world. He dares to take the step. To leave his world behind, to find a new one.
“A Kiss” By Jacob Sutton
London based director Jacob Sutton directs Czech dancer Kristián ‘Mr. Kriss’ Mensa in “A Kiss”, featuring original choreography by long-standing performer and later Creative Associate at DV8 Physical Theatre Hannes Langolf with music by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Andy McDonnel.
“Lost Time” By Anna Radchenko
A movement-led piece, Lost Time represents a positive journey into learning to coexist with time. The film employs the malleability of sand as a metaphor for time slowly seeping through our hands.
“The Melancholy Tide” By Anita Lee and Alexander Leeway
A lone woman on a rooftop struggles to find her place in an immense metropolis.
“SIREN” By Jess Kohl
Siren is a visual journey into Royal Ballet Principal dancer Francesca Hayward’s relationship with ballet, drawing on her early experiences of the art form to create a contrastingly intimate yet voyeuristic experience for the viewer.
“Paired Flowers” By Hannah Bon
Paired Flowers (組の花) is a modern interpretation of Takasago, a Japanese Noh theatre play.
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