Experimental Film & Music Video Festival
Submit your film and get it shown at the festival that runs for 6 times a year in Toronto, and 3 times a year in Los Angeles.
Half a Man is a short concept dance film conceptualized, directed, and choreographed by Jessie James. Featuring an all male cast, It explores the darkness we hold that keeps us from the love of others.
Lost is a short dance film featuring two dancers. The female dancer is consumed inside her own struggles that it takes another to remind her of her spirit and purpose. Memories of happy times are tainted by her demons that ride her shoulders like constant companions.
This video clip shows an explosive passion between two lovers, punctuated by an elegant and a contemporary choreography in the streets of Paris where buildings are changing into real waterfalls. It is an hymn to love that uses the metaphor of water for its fluidity
and storms.
Filmed in San Cipriano, Colombia
August, 2018
Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that translates to “go back and get it.” This 16mm film interprets an exorcism of social repression. Humanity’s passion, pain, and love are revealed through movement, light, and nature. The song “Tonada de Luna” was performed synchronously with the improvisational dance.
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 & Steve” explores martyrdom, conversion therapy, and sexual repression in this daring and fantastical video.
“POP STAR DORIAN ELECTRA FLIPS GENDER STEREOTYPES USING ‘GROSS’ MAKE-UP”
Dazed Digital
“Dorian Electra Goes All the Way”
Paper
https://www.papermag.com/dorian-electra-all-the-way-2641216968.html
“Dorian Electra queers biblical aesthetics with new music video for Adam & Steve”
Happy Mag
https://happymag.tv/dorian-electra-queers-biblical-aesthetics-with-new-m
Based on a Greek mythology,
Icarus and his father, Daedalus, were imprisioned by King Minos. The only way to escape from the island was to fly. Daedalus began to gather feathers from birds and used wax to glue the feathers together which later became wings.
“Solitary” represents Icarus’ state of mind when he was in confinement.
Beauty surrounds a young woman getting cosmetic injections.
Videos of cosmetic procedures are common online marketing tools and frequently posted on social media. What none of the videos provide is any emotional context for the people (mostly women) getting the treatments. Whether these women are empowered or controlled with regard to their image is open to interpretation but, in the film, I want the viewer to experience emotional context as they sit beside a woman actually undergoing the procedure.
Diving in the dark cenotes of Mexico can be a great experience for some, the connection with the magic of the Mayan jungle is felt at all times within these caves. Beauty can be bizzarre.
After a meeting that changed her life, she will try to rebuild herself through dance, the re-appropriation of her body and feminity that will give her the strength to overcome this aggression.
