Festival Kickoff, Mon Sept 18th, 7:45pm || Film Block #1 - Narrative, Tues Sept 19th, 7:30pm || Film Block #2 - Dance, Tues Sept 19th, 8:15pm

Monday, September 18th, 7:45

FESTIVAL KICK OFF

MOVE

Directed by Bernardo Alevato, Taianne Oliveira
An experiment with time, form and movement in a generative dance film using AI and video

What is wrong with us?

Directed by Marusya Shuvalova
What thoughts will the world see if they get into the heads of Ukrainians?

Doll Factory

Directed by Junyoung Park
Here is the doll factories.

Liz and Karla

Directed by Sergio Eduardo Muñoz Esquer
Two best friends have to pay their rent on time while mending their relationship.

Obscura

Directed by Lucas Kua
An experimental dance film about our relationships with technology.

On / Off

Directed by Jurg Slabbert
An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbour in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.

Tuesday, September 19th, 7:30

Film Block #1 — Narrative

Little Bird

Directed by Madison Uphoff
Family traumas are hard to heal. Breaking free from a codependent parent is never easy, but to follow her dreams Birdie must do just that.

(The) Cadaver

Directed by Volkan Özgümüş
Three medical schools students organize a spoofing ritual on the school cadaver for fun. The results of this ritual will be fatal.

Cracked

Directed by MAHMUT TAŞ
A little girl lives in a village with her mother where water sources are dwindling by day. Drought effects her imagination, even her doodles and drawings.

A Cloudy Moon

Directed by TJ Hill
Nick is looking forward to reuniting with his best friend from High School, but regrets a slip of the tongue on a phone call he wants to take back.

Tuesday, September 19th, 8:15

Film Block #2 — Dance

Balada Triste

Directed by Cristian Velasco
“When I walk around in public spaces I usually want to stop and linger. In the forward motion of getting from A to Z as quickly as possible something perverted enters. A trailing finger, a hidden grip on a pole, sinking into grass like putty, kissing a probably dirty window, getting off on people watching me flout against the code.”

The Other Side of the Glass

Directed by Jennifer La Curan
This film explores the idea of what life is like from the other side.

The Migrant Body

Directed by Paula Gil Higa, Cal Hopwood
This film examines human migration through the creative lens of PH Dance's Artistic Director, Paula Higa. Deriving from her personal experience as a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States, Higa researched various motives for individual displacement. People migrate for many reasons, from new life experiences to security, from demography to human rights, and from socio-economic grounds to climate change.

Burning Letters

Directed by Peter-John Campbell
Burning Letters music video, by Sarah Giles, featuring Julia Spizzichini

Core of a Nature

Directed by Felix Nguyen
Experience a mystical journey through nature performed by a movement artist. Felix faces the whirling challenges of his inner turbulence with an emotionally charged dynamic, delicate strength, graceful dignity, as well as ecstatic devotion. Behold the fire dancer in the night.

Bird’s Eye View

Directed by Jennifer La Curan
A whimsical view of simple progressive movements danced in a variety of locations. Depth and speed are explored through a "birds eye view." Come witness the world from above.

Cygnus Synthetic

Directed by Katie Nicole Harmon
Two in each hand and one in my mouth. My mom and aunt tell me stories about how I always carried five pacifiers everywhere when I was a baby. We laugh and smile, but it reminds me that from the moment we are born we are surrounded by plastic. Cygnus Synthetic arranges Nature, Humanity, and Plastic as a trinity to highlight this tragic- and deeply intimate- reality.