Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Festival occurs 3 times a month! Showcased the best of experimental short films and music videos from around the world.

Director Biography – Christopher Huth (DUET NO. 4)

Christopher Huth is a video editor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY and usually found installed at his desk at Union Editorial. Huth’s award-winning commercial work includes the Cannes Gold PR Lion-winning Honey Maid “This is Wholesome” campaign for Droga5 and the Cannes Lion Grand Prix-winning campaign for Google “Demo Slam,” for Johannes Leonardo. He… Continue reading Director Biography – Christopher Huth (DUET NO. 4)

Director Biography – Kasey Poracky (SHIFT)

Kasey Poracky is a Graduate Student at The Media School at Indiana University. As of May 2019, she will have graduated with an MS in Design and Production. Always wanting to work in film but never knowing how, Kasey’s admittance into The Media School is what got her started. She has learned everything she knows… Continue reading Director Biography – Kasey Poracky (SHIFT)

Short Film: SHIFT, 8min., USA, Dance

A studious Boy finds himself bogged down by his uninspired and mundane chores and responsibilities. Suddenly, the beautiful Terpsichore appears and whisks him away to a dreamscape where she beckons him into a romantic pas de deux. Project Links  Instagram News & Reviews “Media School, Jacobs film collaboration features ballet dancers, original choreography” Indiana University… Continue reading Short Film: SHIFT, 8min., USA, Dance

Short Film: SONDER, 9min., USA, Dance

Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed.… Continue reading Short Film: SONDER, 9min., USA, Dance

HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – December 12, 2019

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST MUSIC FILM: R.A.W. TUBA BEST DANCE FILM: DANCE WITH A DEMON BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: MONK BEST MUSIC: CEMETERY SONG Theme of night: Will to survive Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: OPEN THE WINDOW, 3min., Italy, Music Video CEMETERY SONG, 4min., USA, Music Video/Animation THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE, 5min., Music Documentary DANCE… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – December 12, 2019

The Blessing And The Curse Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

The Blessing and the Curse is the surprising and inspiring story of folk, Americana, and rockabilly musician Lance Canales, who rose from humble California Central Valley farmworker beginnings to prominence in the international music scene. Starting from his modest upbringing in the small campesino town of Orosi, California, we follow Canales on his journey from… Continue reading The Blessing And The Curse Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

Takako Vs Nine Lives Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

Takako Vs. Nine Lives is screen dance that uses a hybrid dance language and multiple camera perspectives to create parodic feminist interpretation of a three act balletic pas de deux/ three round wrestling match. The choreography, performed to an original score, draws upon vocabulary and aesthetic imagery from professional wrestling, classical ballet, comic books and… Continue reading Takako Vs Nine Lives Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

R.A.W. Tuba Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

This film is about a Baltimore child who experienced intermittent homelessness but went on to become a world-class symphony musician and professor. As a child, Richard Antoine White (R.A.W.) slept wherever he could, sometimes in abandoned rowhomes where he was chewed on by rats during his sleep. Now in his 40s, he still has the… Continue reading R.A.W. Tuba Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

Open The Window Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019

The room of a hospital, two women waiting. The invitation to the soul to let go, the invitation to react for who remains. A woman on a hospital bed, at the end of her life, is struggling to survive. Another woman is waiting during those final moments. In what is the close separation between the… Continue reading Open The Window Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Dance/Music Festival Dec. 2019