Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Performed by Ava Whipple and Emma Bowie Director and DP – Ryan TimmsAsst Director and Main Camera – Will StroudGrip and Lighting – Pattrick DunnaganPA – Cameron NemethEditor – Ryan TimmsColorist – Pattrick DunnaganBTS – Brandon Andersen and Kevin Seiffert “In 2019 my team filmed a short documentary featuring Kim and A Chance to Dance.… Continue reading Short Film: BEAUTY LIVES IN ME, 3min., USA, Dance

Tara Pixley is a Los Angeles-based visual journalist and filmmaker whose work focuses on re-imagining visual representations of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, and other marginalized identities. As a queer, mixed-race, Jamaican-American raised in the Southeast and now living in Southern California, she’s very interested in the intersections of cultures and the ways we imagine place. Tara specializes… Continue reading Director Biography – Tara Pixley (CODESWITCH)

This piece reflects a day in the life of a black woman as she moves through Los Angeles environments from home, school, work and nightlife, codeswitching to fit in while she maintains her interior self (represented through dance) Project Links  Website

The Coronavirus is affecting all of us.The entire world trembles. The planet is abundant with beauty.It permeates every square inch and area of livingpresence on this planet.But it is always balancing on a knifes edge.Nowhere is the beauty of life more visible, moredistinct and more evident than in the strugglebetween it and death, or between… Continue reading Short Film: DANCE: THE ANVIL, 7min.., Sweden, Dance

Exodus – a phenomenon in which each participant of a multi-person journey undergoes individual challenges. This test reveals the deeply hidden secrets of the human personality thus forcing to make personal choices. Pulled into the vortex of mass supremacy, everyone is coping with the reality on its own. The final decision is made each time… Continue reading Short Film: EXODUS, 35min., Poland, Dance

Oscar De Leon is a Mexican-American filmmaker based out of Fargo, ND. He often operates under his artist name, “Guero,” which roughly translates to “white boy”, a nickname he grew up with. De Leon has been working independently since the age of 18, eschewing film school to pursue his passions. He has since gone on… Continue reading Director Biography – Oscar De Leon (WAKE)

Wake is an artistic story-telling dance film designed to educate and bring awareness to underlying issues that have become normal in our society. Wake captures an extension of the subconscious using movement and nature as the fundamental elements to ignite and lead initiatives to create positive changes in our world. Project Links  Website News &… Continue reading Short Film: WAKE, 6min., USA, Dance

This film seeks to be both a performance recording, and a visual experiment.We want to show the power and grace of the/her body, and in parallel the effort and pain.Marion Gautier De Charnacé is a dancer at the Opera de Paris.She embodies this character with her personal brand of visual stamina and musical introspection.We alternate… Continue reading Short Film: ERR, 4min,. France, Dance

Erik Bergstrand, born in 1979, has a wide cultural background, both in performing arts, photography, music and film, for the past 10 years he has mainly worked as a project manager for other artists’ development opportunities. This is his first dance film in 10 years. Milka Sakic Mennell born 1977. Has worked as a choreographer,… Continue reading Director Biography – Erik Bergstrand, Milka Sakic Mennell (IDILA)

Synopsis: Alive through inner and confined movements, the film stays fluid between time and space where oxygen may not be enough. Choreographer Milka Sakic Mennell, Director and Photographer Erik Bergstrand and composer Martin Öhman take us on a collective journey through various forms of synopsis. Everything from neutralism, competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, commensalism. Here we… Continue reading Short Film: IDILA, 8min., Sweden, Dance