Author: experimentalfilmfestival

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Short Film: Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto – Espana Circo Este Best Music Video: PARTICLES Best Cinematography: THE LIGHT Best Performances: FRESH OFF THE BOAT Best Direction: CANTATA FOR A MORE HOPEFUL TOMORROW Best Animation Video: READY THE PRINCE – REGICIDE Best Sound & Music: STRAIGHT INTO THE OCEAN Theme of… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: May 2021 MUSIC Festival

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Short Film: SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING Best Dance Film: WAITING ROOM Best Cinematography: A PART Best Performances: SPIRAL Best Sound & Music: CHAMELEON Best Direction: BLOOM ON TIPTOE Theme of night: Alone in conflict. NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: May 2021 DANCE Festival

Hyonok Kim is Award winning choreographer and director. Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards Winner, Gold Award Dance on Camera for Teile dich Nacht, New York, International New York Film Festival Best Experimental Award, Grand Prix Teruel International Video Competition, Spain, Winnie Award Equus Film Festival, Canada Shorts-Canadian & International Short Film Fest Award. Her… Continue reading Director Biography – Hyonok Kim (WEEPING WATER)

This film is about the perils of a shark whose fin is hunted to sell as a delicacy. The dancer interprets the grace of the shark’s movements until the dire moment when he is captured in ropes and his fin severed. The dancer twists his body in angular gestures to capture the tragic moment. The… Continue reading Short Film: WEEPING WATER, 8min., USA, Dance

Benedikte Esperi is an independent performance artist, choreographer, film maker, researcher, producer and curator based in Sweden. She runs the companies Dansverk and Benedikte Esperi Produktion since 2007. She was initially trained for the ‘black box format’ but is published in a variety of sites, such as public realm, contemporary art venues, dance- & theatre… Continue reading Director Biography – Benedikte Esperi (WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE)

politically interested women’s circles in Gothenburg, and when the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage was founded in 1902, she took the initiative for the establishment of the Gothenburg section and was elected as its chairman for its entire duration. She was well informed about in particular the British and American suffrage movement, and once invited… Continue reading Short Film: WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE, 4min., Sweden, Dance

Rahel Pasztor was born in 1984 in Budapest, Hungary.She studied Photography at the University of the Arts in Bremen and she completed her Masters Studies in Fine Arts at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She graduated in 2016. She is a freelance filmmaker and photographer currently based in Bremen. Director Statement Where do we belong?Do we belong… Continue reading Director Biography – Rahel Pasztor (1997 BUDAPEST)

In 1997, at the age of sixteen, the dancer and choreographer Mimi Jeong moved to Budapest from South Korea. She stayed in Budapest for two years. It was her first experience abroad.  She went to Budapest because of her father, who was a conductor in Hungary at the time.  In the 1990s, shortly after the… Continue reading Short Film: 1997 BUDAPEST, 10min., Germany, Experimental

An abstract narrative following the days of two young South African casuals working in the heart of Johannesburg’s industrial sector during Covid-19. Project Links  Website  Instagram

The creatures of the sea are always awake to connect with you. Journeying through the life of a darkshyshark foetus, this film is a deep cinematic and aural bowing to the sacredness of the kelp forests andits myriad life forms and non-life forms. It gently reaches out to that which is beyond what can be… Continue reading Short Film: AZILALI: THEY DO NOT SLEEP, 12min., South Africa, Nature