Author: experimentalfilmfestival

LAG: A ZOOMSICAL COMEDY, 10min, USA, Musical Directed by Haddon Kime During the COVID-19 Crisis, a class on meditation and self-care has made the move to Zoom. Four students and an instructor bravely attempt to attain inner peace in this new online classroom beset with all the distractions and frustrations of our new normal. Will… Continue reading Lag: A Zoomsical Comedy Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2020 Experimental Festival

THE CIRCADIAN CYCLE, 16min., Australia, Dance Directed by Garry Stewart Filmed within the stunning South Australian landscape, The Circadian Cycle draws upon choreography from Australian Dance Theatre’s award winning mainstage work The Beginning of Nature.

WAKE, 8min., UK, Dance Directed by Katie Beard, Naomi Turner WAKE is a short dance film which explores and responds to modern attitudes around loss and grief, taking inspiration from different rituals and funeral traditions from around the world. Filmed on the stark and shifting terrain of Dartmoor, WAKE steers us through one’s woman’s journey… Continue reading Wake Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2020 Experimental Festival

PANDEMIA, 4min., Germany, Music/Experimental Directed by Katerina Giaannakopoualou An experimental movie such as an art music video which shows the relationship between human kind and nature and how it has evolved through the artistic perspective of dance. The viral pandemic is the theme. I got my inspiration from the strange rythm of the music and… Continue reading Pandemia Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2020 Experimental Film Festival

STAY INSIDE, 3min., Canada, Music Directed by Will Meadows

FLOOR FALLS, 3min., UK, Dance Directed by Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay, Abby Warrilow A women stands, takes a breath, and moves. Arching back extending further than seems possible, she steps forward, rising up onto the tip of her toe and over the threshold. We see blackness then she appears. Rotating and twisting, the camera and… Continue reading Floor Falls Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2020 Experimental Festival

SYNCHRONICITY, 4min., UK, Animation Directed by Michelle Brand People come, people go – Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.

LIMINALITY, 8min,. USA, Dance Directed by Jennifer Akalina Petuch, Annali Rose Liminality is inspired by reimagining what Odette may have experienced upon plunging to her death in the lake from the classical ballet “Swan Lake”. It is a moment of suspended reality and a story of disenchantment, self-discovery and transformation. In our modern world we… Continue reading Liminality Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Oct. 2020 Experimental Festival

AGON, 4min., Brazil, Dance Directed by MANUEL NOGUEIRA Nothing here has been done for us. The human being lives an illusion of protagonism in relation to existence, a narcissistic process of thinking that everything is done for the human being. People are at home, struggling in a dispute for protagonism.

THE DREAM OF B. SOARES, 6min., France, Animation Directed by Thibault Chollet I am like a pendulum that can’t stop waving, always moving, never reaching.