A showcase of the best films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best FEATURE FILM: ShucksDANCE FILM: The Floating Life | UNTAMEDEXPERIMENTAL: OasisMUSIC VIDEO: La GhostificationANIMATION: inner necessityART FILM: HomeDIRECTION: Echo of SilencePERFORMANCES: IcebergPOETRY: Everyone Wants a Tight PussySOUND & MUSIC: Med SelkiesSTORY: Patient See the full lineup of films: inner necessity, 10min., USA, ExperimentalDirected… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: May 2025 Experimental/Dance/Music Festival
Category: Dance Film
HIGHLIGHTS: February 2025 EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Festival
Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award:Best Feature Film: CATABASE FIRST PART: AD LOVEBest Dance Film: RESISTANCEBest Experimental Film: EctropyBest Musical: longing/belongingBest Music Video: Until the last minuteBest Story: Zero Sum GameBest Performances: IkigaiBest Cinematography: One Human ShowBest Art Film: These ThingsBest Sound & Music: Into the Gamba-VerseBest Poetry Film: Lettre… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: February 2025 EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE/MUSIC Festival
Director Biography – Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay, Abby Warrilow (FLOOR FALLS)
Jennifer Paterson is Artistic Director of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, Scotland’s leading aerial dance company. Her first experience in dance for screen was as a performer in Katrina McPherson’s Moment. She has since forged a career as an aerial and dance performer, choreographer and director, helping to build the aerial scene in Scotland.… Continue reading Director Biography – Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay, Abby Warrilow (FLOOR FALLS)
Short Film: FLOOR FALLS, 3min., UK, Dance
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 her dance around each other. She suspends, or has the floor fallen?… Continue reading Short Film: FLOOR FALLS, 3min., UK, Dance
Short Film: COLD STORAGE, 9min., Finland, Dance
Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.
Director Biography – Katie Beard, Naomi Turner (WAKE)
Directing duo Katie Beard and Naomi Turner, make up LeMoon; a performance and film collective based between Exeter and London. Katie and Naomi began making work together after graduating from the University of Exeter in 2015, where they both studied a degree in Drama. Initially creating multimedia and physical theatre work they realised their common… Continue reading Director Biography – Katie Beard, Naomi Turner (WAKE)
Director Biography – Garry Stewart (THE CIRCADIAN CYCLE)
Garry Stewart was appointed the Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 1999. He has created a significant repertoire of works for ADT which have become renowned for their ambitious artistic collaborations, rigorous research and a compelling movement vocabulary. His works have toured to some of the most prestigious theatres in the world including… Continue reading Director Biography – Garry Stewart (THE CIRCADIAN CYCLE)
Short Film: THE CIRCADIAN CYCLE, 16min., Australia, Dance
The Circadian Cycle is a short film conceived and directed by Garry Stewart, with cinematography from renowned director and film maker Cordelia Beresford. 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. Using the dancing body as a metaphor,… Continue reading Short Film: THE CIRCADIAN CYCLE, 16min., Australia, Dance
Director Biography – Luigi Coppola (BEEHIVE)
Luigi Coppola is a filmmaker and musician based in Milan and Zurich. Since the beginning of his career he tries to put the two disciplines together through the music video, working with many Italian bands. He then devoted himself to video art and embarked on a path of collaboration with various dance and theater companies,… Continue reading Director Biography – Luigi Coppola (BEEHIVE)
Short Film: INVERTED GLOAMING, 7min., Chili, Music Video
For this video clip, TARGET takes the concepts from their latest album Deep Water Flames to bring them to the screen, in an artistic piece that reflects the fight against the tide, in this case represented by the fight for equality of women in this world. Director – MATIAS ALVARADO
Experimental Film & Music Video Festival 