Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: THE REFLECTION OF FRANCISCA NEWMAN
Best Style: MODUS H20
Best Direction: CIRCULAR
Best Performances: TUNEKO
Best Sound & Music: SWEET HONEY
Best Cinematography: SOMA
Best Experimental: RUNT
Best Dance Film: FOLLOW THE SUN
Best Choreography: GNDR
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
SOMA, 10min., UK
Directed by Arturo Bandinelli
SOMA is an experimental film that uses movement and dance as its primary medium for story-telling. A contemporary myth on the genesis of the human body, the piece unfolds in two parallel dimensions: an infinite black hole where entities exist outside linear space and time; and a labyrinthine house where an uncanny gathering is taking place. As the free-associative, dreamlike narrative unfolds, different characters go through visceral experiences of pleasure, enchantment, pain and death.
http://www.kwamcollective.com/https://instagram.com/kwamcollective
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
CIRCULAR, 10min., Netherlands
Directed by Inge Theunissen
In the history of the future lab technicians clone themselves. Overheating strikes when a clone emerges that deviates.
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SWEET HONEY, 5min, UK
Directed by Dan Löwenstein
A short movement & Music film looking at the fragility of the mind & the temptation to suppress the clear signs of anxiety. We delve into the raw and much needed release of one man as he hits the wall and can no longer ‘pretend’. As is mostly the case when you hit rock bottom the love for his family brings him back to a feeling of control, where he reaches a state of calm and reflection.
https://www.instagram.com/Danlowensteinfilm
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TUNEKO, 4min,. France
Directed by Marie Polo
(English) TUNEKO (“tout n’est qu’eau” = “all is only water” in french) is an interdisciplinary art project bringing together video, performance, costume & set design, interactive & immersive experiences reconnecting humans to the main element they are composed of and coming from : water (in all its shapes).
http://www.marie-polo.com/https://www.instagram.com/tuneko____/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MODUS H20, 4min,. Germany
Directed by Na Dine
With the stylistic devices of contemporary dance and a deconstructed flamenco, the aggregate states of water and their effects on people and the environment are explored. A flamenco typical train dress is changed and recreated. The rhythm of flamenco is taken out of context and used for new scenarios. Immersed in blue underwater light, classic flamenco meets contemporary dance and experimental electronic music.
http://www.natiblanco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Nati.Blanco.Flamenco
https://www.instagram.com/nati.flamenco
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE REFLECTION OF FRANCISCA NEWMAN, 15min., USA
Directed by Jon Frenkel Garcia
In this cinematic fairytale, Francisca Newman, a psychologically disturbed ballerina, fails at her life audition. Her perfectionism starts to take a noticeable toll on her mental health, where in a world of passion and beauty, sensibility and enlightenment becomes darkness.
https://www.instagram.com/franciscanewmanfilm/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
RUNT, 4min., UK
Directed by Bess Noakes-Kettel, Brendan Void
We follow the journey of a young woman and her conflicting emotions and sense of impending demise as she interacts with four other ‘masked’ and seemingly predatory creatures in the wilderness. Expressing themselves through interactive dance and movement as they move through beach and woodland areas, our protagonist appears bare faced and ‘unmasked’: both brave and vulnerable in aesthetic contrast to the other ensemble members who appear in human form and demonstrate human athletic prowess and attributes, but retain anonymity behind their wolf masks.
https://www.ragged-pictures.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ragged_pictures/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
FOLLOW THE SUN, 4min,. Mexico
Directed by Ernesto Ruvalcaba
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GNDR, 9min,. USA
Directed by Lucas Ruderman
The story of Gender, in much of early World Mysticism, begins with the creation of the human as one multi-gendered being, severed by divine decree. Using an intensely dramatic, archetypal dance vocabulary that includes the use of hand-designed theater masks, GNDR, examines the historical and contemporary fallout of this myth, as two individuals struggle to reclaim original wholeness in a dance fraught with desire, repulsion, and yearning. Ultimately, the subtle question is posed: Who are we beyond our bodies? Who are we, really?
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Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 