Category: Experimental Short Films

Director Biography – Burke Heffner (LEADING ME STRAIGHT)

Burke Heffner’s stills and motion work have appeared at The Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, as well as in LA Times, Village Voice, Timeout New York, Playboy.com, and more. When he’s not creating visual poetry for TV, commercials, and music videos, he enjoys long walks in the woods of New York with his… Continue reading Director Biography – Burke Heffner (LEADING ME STRAIGHT)

Short Film: LEADING ME STRAIGHT, 8min., USA, Music Video

In a dystopian and colorless universe nobody dreams, and nobody wins. Emotions are useless, as are abundant thoughts. A hive with marked paths to serve an unnamed queen. He saw her. He touched her. She was the only one to break him from years of mechanic and automatic routine, if only for a flash. Where… Continue reading Short Film: LEADING ME STRAIGHT, 8min., USA, Music Video

Director Biography – Hiroshi kizu (14)

https://www.pics.tokyo/people/hiroshi-kizu/ Majored in Visual Arts at the Kyoto College of Art. During his studies, he was deeply impressed by Takashi Ito’s experimental video, Kazuhiko Hasegawa’s “The Man Who Stole the Sun,” and Evangelion. Joined MTV Japan in 2001, and during the next 5 years he created many program openings, station-IDs, etc. Left MTV Japan in… Continue reading Director Biography – Hiroshi kizu (14)

Short Film: 14, 3min., Japan, Dance/Music

The fear of being hurt, being alone, The desire to be released from its shell expressed in emotional changes through dance. The action emphasized by editing it becomes a sound and forms a rhythm in the head of who sees this Experimental video where the image became a rhythm track. News & Reviews “Public Prize” CINEMATICA FESTIVAL… Continue reading Short Film: 14, 3min., Japan, Dance/Music

Director Biography – Virginie Kahn (THE SHE-WOLF)

Artistic director for press magazines and communication agencies up to 2012, I have been working for several press magazines such as Beaux-Arts magazine, Télérama, Géo, L’Equipe quotidien et magazine, Canal +, as well as for communication programs related to youth, education, children’s rights, in particular for the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis. I still occasionally work… Continue reading Director Biography – Virginie Kahn (THE SHE-WOLF)

Short Film: THE SHE-WOLF, 10min., France, Dance

Marion mysteriously appears in a clearing populated by marauding wolves. Attracted by the melody of a cello, a strange dream brings her to the heart of a wonderful forest. But as she tries to get closer to the cello, their bodies gradually cover themselves with a strange bark-colored skin.

Director Biography – Cass Mortimer Eipper (BRUTE)

Cass trained at the Australian Ballet School and has performed with the West Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, and was co-director of the Australian dance/media company, Ludwig. He won the Helpmann award for ‘Best Male Dancer’ in William Forsythe’s Quintett. His other awards include ‘Most Outstanding Performance’ at the Rome International Choreography Competition’ for ‘Solo… Continue reading Director Biography – Cass Mortimer Eipper (BRUTE)

Director Biography – Danielle Peers, Alice Sheppard (INCLINATIONS)

DANIELLE PEERS is a community organizer, an artist, and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. They have made seven activist-oriented films, co-curated three art shows, and co-founded two arts collectives (KingCrip Productions and CRIPSiE). They have co-choreographed three dances, and have performed for eight years… Continue reading Director Biography – Danielle Peers, Alice Sheppard (INCLINATIONS)

Short Film: INCLINATIONS, 5min., France, Dance

Choreographed, directed and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video short contrasts the playful connections when disability aesthetics, community and a ramp meet the institutional histories and discordant inclinations that can lurk just below the surface. News & Reviews “I Dance Because I Can written by Alice Sheppard” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/disabi