Author: experimentalfilmfestival

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: In the wake of the most recent Black Lives Matter movement, I wondered how Ballet Black should react to the apparent shift in global thinking about race, inclusion and equity. My overriding feeling was one of exhaustion; micro aggressions, persecution, death – it seemed never ending. I wanted to see… Continue reading Short Film: EIGHTFOLD, 34min,. UK, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Stuck in a bubble, these wealthy patrons know nothing else but this tension. Director Biography – Joan Dwiartanto, Cyrie Topete Joan Dwiartanto is in her fourth and final year as a Dance major at The Juilliard School. She has taken a keen interest in Dance filmmaking and wishes to continue creating… Continue reading Short Film: CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWN, 9min., USA, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Get away from the spirit, get attached to the material. Forget the simple things that connect us to the universe.Looking the other way, burying empathy, clinging to individualism and losing the essence to give up the throne to the artificial, to frivolity.Implicit decisions that, little by little and without noticing… Continue reading Short Film: KNOT, 9min., Mexico, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Birdsong tells a tale through the lens of the artist whose voice is stifled in the everyday humdrum of survival. Learning to dream again often begins with the bold remembering of our creative birthright. In daring to sing aloud, we call onto others who are searching for a place to… Continue reading Short Film: BIRDSONG, 8min., Singapore, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Go is a strategic two-player board game, known as “Yi”(弈) in ancient China, and “Go” in the west. “The Duel ” is about the protagonist’s inner struggle for victory and finding the meaning of opponents in her life. It is lonely for a skillful person without opponents. Through the battle… Continue reading Short Film: THE DUEL, 3min., Canada, Dance

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:BEST FILM: Tell Me There’s a GardenBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: EtiäinenBEST MUSIC VIDEO: May, SnowBEST PERFORMANCES: Fine Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: ABIOGENESIS, 3min., Australia, Music VideoDirected by David Vincent Smith An experimental expression of how artists interact with the architecture around them.… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEO: February 2022 Music Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:BEST FILM: UnbornBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anima & AnimusBEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Pity, A Film PoemBEST SOUND & MUSIC: Tshishikushkueu Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: THE OPEN, 3min., Canada, FashionDirected by Kit Pilosof The Open is about learning to embrace your anxiety through the… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: February 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:BEST FILM: Tusalih – A Jouyr TaleBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: LandfallBEST PERFORMANCES: BrokenBEST DANCE FILM: UrdBEST SOUND & MUSIC: Ephemeros Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:< TUSALIH – A JOUYR TALE, 9min., France, DanceDirected by Shaun Bui What would your emotional body say to… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: February 2022 DANCE Festival

The Open is about learning to embrace your anxiety through the notion of childlike play, instead of battling it. The film features a creative woman, a dancer, suffering from anxiety disorder. She battles her own anxiety on a tennis court in a match against herself. One side of the court represents her anxious state –… Continue reading Short Film: THE OPEN, 3min., Canada, Fashion

pity, a film poem is an ode to image-making. Director Biography – Anmar Taha, Josephine Gray The work of Iraqi Bodies explores the link between movement and gesture, between dance and physical theater. The development of their artistic practice has been deeply influenced by the likes of Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques Copeau and Tatsumi Hijikata… Continue reading Short Film: PITY, A FILM POEM, 24min., Sweden, Poem