Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: ROOTS ABOVE GROUND
Best Short Film: MEASURLESS
Best Dance Film: WHEN NANAY COMES HOME
Best Direction: ONE SHILLING
Best Cinematography: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Best Performances: KATANA
Best Narrative Dance: FIGHT THE FEAR
Best Experimental Dance: UNDER THE TRACKS
Best Sound & Music: WILD
Best Collage Film: DANCE. DANCE. DANCE.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
KATANA, 4min., Netherlands, Dance
Directed by Maarten Groen
A short dance film celebrating female empowerment, inspired by Asian culture.
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MEASURLESS, 10min., Canada, Dance
Directed by Xavier Curnillon, Louise Bédard
ART DANCE
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WILD, 7min., USA, Dance
Directed by Lindsay Leonie Gauthier
Wild is a visual, emotional, and kinesthetic journey following the experience of Lio who is having an unexpected encounter with a wild space for the first time.
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ONE SHILLING, 6min., UK, Dance
Directed by Monica Nicolaides
One Shilling. A contemporary dance film where four strangers from different backgrounds escape everyday life for one night, drinking and dancing in one of London’s underground bars during the Blitz.
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, 2min., USA, Dance
Directed by Anthony Chirco
A young woman ventures deep into the depths of her own mind to reconcile her cognitive dissonance.
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FIGHT THE FEAR, 6min., USA, Dance
Directed by Shyamala Moorty
In this experimental dance and spoken word short, a Dreamer confronts her fears of deportation. Set in a cemented river bed in Southern California, clusters of dancers push, drag, and carry each other in a dance of survival, while powerful spoken word and ethereal vocals call out the fears and hopes of those facing exclusionary migration laws.
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WHEN NANAY COMES HOME, 6min., USA, Dance
Directed by Deborah Slater
A story about a young Filipino daughter coping with the Pandemic and the nurse pipeline from the Philippines.
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UNDER THE TRACKS, 6min., USA, Dance
Directed by Alexander Petit Olivieri, Alia Swersky, Roel Seeber
Constructed between 1911 and 1917, the Ballard Locks connects the Puget Sound to Seattle’s upstream lakes. It was originally operated and led by engineer Hiram Chittenden of the US Army Corp, from whom it now gets its name the Ballard Hiram Chittenden Locks. Each year, 40,000 ships pass through the locks that separate the fresh water lakes from the salt water ways of the Puget Sound. In this site-specific work, three dancers explore the line between the past and the present. They slide, scrape and scour the ledge that overlooks the intersection of Seattle’s salt and fresh water systems.
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DANCE. DANCE. DANCE., 2min., USA, Dance
Directed by Karen Mueller Bryson
A collage film about the joy of dance made with images in public domain.
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ROOTS ABOVE GROUND, 51min., USA, Dance
Directed by Marc Brew
This 45 minute physically integrated performance is a personal work that explores the multiple meanings of home. Using his own journey as an immigrant, disabled gay man and dancer as a base from which to work, former Artistic Director Marc Brew intends to peel back the layers to get at this universal human need to belong.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 