Category: Short Films at Festival

Short Film: FEEL REBORN HERE, 2min., France, Dance

Imagine a place where landscapes and feelings make you want to discover yourself, explore your surroundings, a place where you wish to reveal your inner self, leave the world behind and where you could live according to your true nature . With their energy and their grace, dancers express this urge to imagine a different… Continue reading Short Film: FEEL REBORN HERE, 2min., France, Dance

Director Biography – Sasha Chudacoff (MINE)

Sasha Chudacoff has spent her life training in many dance/movement disciplines and approaches. As a community based, multidisciplinary dance artist, she explores body and land through dance, film and photography. Sasha finds inspiration in physical images, touch, somatic dance practices, Butoh, and the spirit of place. Integrating dance practices for all bodies has been a… Continue reading Director Biography – Sasha Chudacoff (MINE)

Short Film: MINE, 8min., USA, Dance

A dance and music collaboration between sisters exploring a coal mining site from the 1920’s where an iconic structure called the Gronk still stands. Body based dance research and song writing were translated based on the mining history of this place. The sisters collected stories and myths on Peanut and Pershing Mine from elders in… Continue reading Short Film: MINE, 8min., USA, Dance

Short Film: HAPPY ENDING, 4min., Australia, Dance

In 1997 magician/psychic, Uri Geller tried to help Second Division football club Exeter City win a crucial end of season game by placing “energy-infused” crystals behind the goals at Exeter’s ground (Exeter lost the game 5–1). Although made famous by his spoon-bending theatrics throughout the 1970’s and 80’s, Geller was unable however to ever successfully… Continue reading Short Film: HAPPY ENDING, 4min., Australia, Dance

Short Film: WEIGHTLESS, 5min., Canada, Dance

What happens when we allow ourselves to shift perspectives? When we defy established concepts such as “direction”? Perhaps, just perhaps, up is not up, and we need to look down. Weightless is an invitation to create an alternative reality. To imagine a world where the rules we believe unbreakable are simply an option. We invite… Continue reading Short Film: WEIGHTLESS, 5min., Canada, Dance

Short Film: WATERMORPHOSIS, 4min., Germany, Dance

Weightlessly, life moves through dark infinity, a mystical space without threat. The dance embodies the beauty of nature, appears innocent. But as suddenly as it arises, it becomes vulnerable and physical – life is suffocated by dead matter. Plastic. Reality. An estimated 5 – 12 million tons of plastic waste reach our oceans every year.… Continue reading Short Film: WATERMORPHOSIS, 4min., Germany, Dance

Director Biography – David Javier (FLORETS)

Ambitious and creative, Kristin McQuaid is one of today’s hottest choreographers. For more than 15 years, she has wowed audiences as an actor, dancer and choreographer and has just added designer to that list. Kristin was born in Marlton, New Jersey and moved 9 times, including a stop in Denver where she discovered her love… Continue reading Director Biography – David Javier (FLORETS)

Short Film: FLORETS, 4min., USA, Dance/Music Video

As I get older I keep realizing that so many things change in life. People go in and out. Trends go in and out. Relationships go in and out. We never know what our next path in life is and that’s what is so astonishing. I relate the Florets to life. They grow, they are… Continue reading Short Film: FLORETS, 4min., USA, Dance/Music Video

Director Biography – David-Alexandre CHANEL (PASSAGE)

Artist, engineer and entrepreneur, David-Alexandre CHANEL co-founds THEORIZ Studio in 2014. Combining an education in music and from an engineering school, David CHANEL uses art and science to create innovative and poetic art installations. Since 2011, he co-signed several digital art installations seen in the Lyon Light Festival and other international renowed art festival. After… Continue reading Director Biography – David-Alexandre CHANEL (PASSAGE)