Doris
Produced in the fall of '98 as part of a video-dance internship offered to choreographers by PRIM and Circuit Est, Doris is a study of banality : a woman tries desperately to sit on an inflateable footstool in an attempt to stop time. Doris is a metaphor for our imposing solitude which nevertheless manages to bring out a charming naïvety.
Confluence
A mesmerizing showcase of artistic excellence, where intricate choreography and cinematography tell a story of pure, unbridled joy and creativity. Its about honoring the past, recognizing the present and looking into the future.
The Oath
Since the beginning of time, in communities, clans, congregations, and clubs, humans have gathered to move in unison. Set in a vivid universe of color and based on Annie-B Parson's stage choreography, The Oath explores the history of vernacular and poetic unison movement. Suspended between the communal and the monstrous, an assembly of seventeen women embody our human impulse to move as one — to bond, to battle, to intimidate, to gather, to promise, to dance!
Don't Leave Me
Through dance and movement improvisation, "Non lasciarmi" explores the metaphorical reaction of humanity when it realizes that its love story with Nature has irrevocably come to an end.
Shadowplay
Mixing visual, sound, and storytelling elements from different eras and regions, "Shadowplay" depicts a world filled with dysfunctional work culture through an unorthodox conflict between an office worker and her shadow, and seeks a hidden connection between the dominance of corporatism and the illusion of self-importance.
Visitors
From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich black and white Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous landscapes and even the behavior of an especially expressive gorilla.
Flight of the Swan
A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.
RHYTHMS
Through trials and tribulations, four unacquainted girls prove to be more connected than expected, as they slowly become united through the power of dance.
A City in the Forest
When a private police foundation in Atlanta tries to raze an urban forest to build the country’s largest police training facility, a diverse, decentralized, and intersectional movement defends the forest from what they call “Cop City.” A City in the Forest paints a collective portrait of the country’s most urgent social justice story, where a web of activists fight back against environmental racism, political corruption, police violence, and the criminalization of dissent.
Ballet Biologic
Inspired by Ballet Mécanique, Ballet Biologic is an experimental triptych exploring the body through movement, physical painting and spoken testimony. Made alongside three physical paintings and exhibited at LJMU’s Umwelt exhibition at Bridewell Studios in Liverpool, the project turns vulnerability into rhythm, image and reclamation.
Bêtes de foire
Bêtes de foire reveals the deeper nature of two individuals, a woman and a man, by means of a journey toward the unconscious. Their chaotic path assumes the form of a light and a synthetic surrealist dream. As either a false image of ourselves or a mirror of a reality to come, Bêtes de foire has the ability to adapt so to better embed itself in the mind.
Within These Walls
What if the space that confines you is also the space that knows you best? Within These Walls is a surreal, movement-driven short film that explores the architecture of the inner life. As the boundaries between the physical and the psychological dissolve, walls become memory, objects become feeling, and confinement slowly transforms into a kind of recognition.
The Great Run
A point of view on the body of a runner in movement.
Um Corpo que Transita
It Cries Too Loudly
Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer Dolly Sfeir set about creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. IT CRIES TOO LOUDLY, is a dance film exploring the overlap between joy and tragedy in her tumultuous home country and the experience of being an emigre.
Mnemonic Shores
In the mist in which existence lies, memories crystalize from past moments lived. Might be altered, might become in part fiction, but no less real. A moment that goes beyond the perceptible reality. As if the encoding of light and sound by the mind has warped into a fluid form of existence. A static state of constant movement. A ride into the fading waves of remembrance, where falcons of the inner eye murmur above a sea of silver-like memories.
Savage Song
“To begin a new chapter, you must close the last — even if it hurts to turn the page.” Savage Song is a poetic short film that explores the duality of destiny — the battle between who we are and who we are meant to become. In a world where every step forward demands a sacrifice, the film captures the raw emotion of choosing growth over comfort, and the strength it takes to say goodbye to the old in pursuit of the unknown. Shot on location in beautiful Orkney Islands, where the landscape becomes a character of its own — stark, wild, and symbolic of inner transformation. Through striking visuals, haunting sound, and symbolic storytelling, Savage Song reminds us that transformation is never gentle — it’s savage, beautiful, and necessary. 🎥 Directed by: @AlonaPetliarska 🎞️ Edited by: @AlonaPetliarska @YukhymPetliarskyi 🎼 Original Music by: @bertsovna
unbroken rhythms
a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. love—and nothing besides!
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A filmic preservation of a highway. A scan of the asphalt, emulsion to emulsion, strip to strip, pebbles to pixels, kilometers per hour to frames per second. Also a film about film, with a variable speed reflecting the rhythm of traffic, set to the sound of speed and friction.