Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Luca Silvestrini is Protein’s Artistic Director. He is known for his unique style of dance theatre combining choreography, text, humour and social commentary to present the everyday in revealing and subversive ways, on- and off-stage. Protein’s work, such as Dear Body, LOL (lots of love) and Border Tales has toured the world, from the USA… Continue reading Director Biography – Luca Silvestrini, Roswitha Chesher, Andy Pink (THE SUN INSIDE)

The Sun Inside is a participatory film reflecting upon the relevance of sunlight during lockdown that has been initiated as a collaboration between Luca Silvestrini, filmmaker Roswitha Chesher and composer Andy Pink and 152 contributors from 9 countries around the world who have been invited to film ‘their sun inside’. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter… Continue reading Short Film: THE SUN INSIDE, 11min., UK, Experimental

Hamidreza Jadid is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on painting, sculpture and multimedia installations. Jadid’s work addresses his long-term conceptual dialogue with memory, history and politics. Recently he has been trying to incorporate music and sounds to his experience in visual arts and is cultivating the medium of animation for bringing music and visual arts together.… Continue reading Director Biography – Hamidreza Jadid (QUIET ON SET)

“Quiet on Set” is an effort to build a bridge between the two considerable disciplines known as Visual Arts and Performing Arts. This bridge is constructed by linking up a non-narrative music to a number of iconic paintings which is depicted by moving images to create an exceedingly complex media. The storyline has a surrealist… Continue reading Short Film: QUIET ON SET, 5min,. Canada, Experimental

Watch this best of DANCE & MUSIC Shorts streaming online ONLY on Friday May 14th. EMAIL US to reserve the FREE private link and password to watch the festival. SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS: FRESH OFF THE BOAT, 3min., USA, Music Video Directed by Todd Lien A young foreign student, Bowen, learns the way of life… Continue reading MUSIC FESTIVAL – Friday May 14th – Stream for FREE

Shuyler Nazareth is an American/Canadian filmmaker based in New York, and an alumnus of Connecticut College with a Major in Art and Minor in Art History. He pursued his love for animation during a semester abroad in Florence, Italy. He first began studying painting and drawing at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, a nationally… Continue reading Director Biography – Shuyler Nazareth (READY THE PRINCE)

What happens when the land, air, and sea that a king has conquered, decides to fight back? This frenetic frame by frame animated music video captures the apocalyptic sound of the single “Regicide”, by Canadian rock group Ready the Prince. Project Links  Instagram

2007-2014 film student at the academy of media arts (KHM), Cologne | since 2014 working as screenwriter, director and consultant for commercial films, TV and cinema. Project Links  Website  Instagram

2020. Suddenly everything has changed. The world is coming apart,we are singing online or in a car park keeping safe distances from each other. But at the core we‘re still a choir, and that means that we‘re greater together. Out of this state we initiated this creative collaboration. Project Links  Website  Instagram

Ben Draghi is an experimental music composer and videographer born is Paris, France and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Draghi found his footing by combining audio with visuals to create worlds of fantasy, with work that premiered at shows in New York and Berlin. “LIKE U DO” is Ben Draghi’s new single, a follow… Continue reading Director Biography – Ben Draghi (LIKE U DO)