Author: experimentalfilmfestival

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

Short Film: YOU WANTED RIVERS, 7min., Poland, Dance

Directed by Magdalena ZielinskaWe are never getting what we want. We are never happy with what we get. ‘You Wanted Rivers’ is a dance film about desires that wear us down, that make us follow risky paths and that keep us forever thirsty and forever blind. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Director Biography – Magdalena Zielinska… Continue reading Short Film: YOU WANTED RIVERS, 7min., Poland, Dance

Short Film: INFERNO, 17min., Germany, Dance

„Inferno“ by Nostos Tanztheater is a dance theater about exclusion, trauma, refugee issues and displacement. Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Project Links  Website  Facebook  Instagram Director Biography – Joseph Franciosa Joseph Franciosa has filmed various dance forms in the US and now in Germany. He started in photography with a background in architecture and art and… Continue reading Short Film: INFERNO, 17min., Germany, Dance

Short Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE, 26min,. USA, Dance

Directed by Alexandra Farber‘The Way We Change’ presents four different dancers in their various journeys through life, and how these can be seen in waking consciousness, in dreams, in an individual’s psychology, and in the way an individual acts. Each of the four dancers faces a separate struggle, and each finds resolution by the end… Continue reading Short Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE, 26min,. USA, Dance

Short Film: GHOSTLY LABOR, 13min., USA

Directed by John Jota Leaños, Vanessa Sanchez“Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film” explores the history of labor in the US–Mexico borderlands through Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho, Afro Caribbean movement, and live music. This work brings together polyrhythmic movement and an original score to look at the (ongoing) years of systemic exploitation of labor while… Continue reading Short Film: GHOSTLY LABOR, 13min., USA

Short Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE, 26min,. USA, Dance

Directed by Alexandra Farber‘The Way We Change’ presents four different dancers in their various journeys through life, and how these can be seen in waking consciousness, in dreams, in an individual’s psychology, and in the way an individual acts. Each of the four dancers faces a separate struggle, and each finds resolution by the end… Continue reading Short Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE, 26min,. USA, Dance

Short Film: COUNT IT ALL, 7min., USA, Dance

Directed by Joshua Lamar Cleveland“Count it all” is a film work that is meant to display the complicated spaces of interiority and safety that black bodies have often had to cultivate within themselves in response to institutional trauma and white systemic violence. It is a film that paints an image of various searchings around faith,… Continue reading Short Film: COUNT IT ALL, 7min., USA, Dance