Category: Short Films at Festival

Short Film: UPWELL, 6min., USA, Dance

A vision of surfing, embodied by pro surfer Kassia Meador, appears as in a dream and inspires a woman to return to the water after a devastating loss. Surrounded by a diverse group of female surfers, she paddles out and they perform a ritual of connection to each other and to the ocean that is… Continue reading Short Film: UPWELL, 6min., USA, Dance

Director Biography – Christine Marque (MOTEL-X)

Christine Marque is a local artist and filmmaker in Cincinnati. Throughout her life, she has always been fascinated with artistic interactive experiences. She loves finding a creative space to step into a new reality. Christine has also worked very closely with local social justice organizations, helping them produce films to spread awareness and information. She… Continue reading Director Biography – Christine Marque (MOTEL-X)

Short Film: MOTEL-X, 5min., USA, Dance

Motel X is a human trafficking awareness exhibit that featuring the talents of PONES Dance Company in a film. The Film is used in a bigger installation featured at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH. Motel X: Sex Trafficking film was created to show the psychological and physical bondage between the victim… Continue reading Short Film: MOTEL-X, 5min., USA, Dance

Director Biography – Didier MULLERAS (HOME 23.20)

(ENGLISH) Didier MULLERAS is a french visual artist, renowned choreographer, musician, film maker. He has created more that 30 stage productions and numerous dance films. His work has toured worldwide in more that 50 countries and major venues, including Sadlers Wells Londres, Art Summit Jakarta, Centre Culturel de Belem Lisbonne, Danza Unam Mexico, Skirball Center… Continue reading Director Biography – Didier MULLERAS (HOME 23.20)

Director Biography – Antoine Panier (MAKING MEN 10′)

After fifteen years as a contemporary dancer, Antoine Panier redirects his professional activity to new technologies and visual communication, including web development, graphics and video. He joined the team of Studio Signélazer where he worked on many projects for 13 years. After an intensive training at the Metropolitan Film School of London, he develops his… Continue reading Director Biography – Antoine Panier (MAKING MEN 10′)

Director Biography – Dorian Electra, Weston Allen (ADAM & STEVE)

Rising pop star Dorian Electra (pronouns: they/them/theirs) makes music that defies gender norms. Their work, always accompanied by larger-than-life, hyper-stylized music videos directed by Electra in collaboration with directing partner Weston Allen, has gained a queer cult following and led to Electra being named a must-know talent by Buzzfeed, Dazed, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Paper and… Continue reading Director Biography – Dorian Electra, Weston Allen (ADAM & STEVE)

Short Film: ADAM & STEVE, 3min, USA, Music

Rising pop star Dorian Electra’s music video for Adam & Steve rewrites homophobic religious rhetoric into queer empowerment. Taking the anti-LGBTQ slogan “God made Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve” and subverting it, Dorian instead imaginatively re-writes biblical “history” through a subversive queer lens. Co-directed by Electra and creative partner Weston Allen, “Adam &… Continue reading Short Film: ADAM & STEVE, 3min, USA, Music

Director Biography – CS Fischer (THE IDENTITY OF PAS DE DEUX)

CS Fischer grew up in a small, rural, Illinois town, where everyone knew everyone and the most popular club in high school was the Future Farmers of America. Fischer knew early that such a town would not hold her imagination, and so she set off to explore the world, from Costa Rica to Wales, trying… Continue reading Director Biography – CS Fischer (THE IDENTITY OF PAS DE DEUX)