FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: PARTners Edition (September 2021)
COMING SOON - Sept 17th, 2021
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Landscape without Horizon
film by Jordan Fuchs and Yeajean Choi (c) 2017
USA
A collaboration between Jordan Fuchs and Yeajean Choi, with sound design by composer Andy Russ, Landscape Without Horizon is a 5-minute videodance of engaging gravitational incongruities. Using a body-mounted video camera, Landscape Without Horizon features two dancers, Kara Beadle and Tiffany Bierly, exploring weight-sharing, balance and multiple support surfaces in a white space without clear differentiation between wall, floor and ceiling.
Jordan Fuchs - Director, Producer & Camera Operator
Yeajean Choi - Director, Camera Operator & Editor
Andy Russ - Music
Dayna Morgan - Lighting Design
Kara Beadle - Camera Operator
Tiffany Bierly - Camera Operator
bear (v.)
film by Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth (c) 2020 USA
Dual Rivet present "bear (v.)", a dance film exploring experiences and memories buried within each of us. The piece follows an individual and their ability to accept and confront these challenges.
Directors - Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth
Choreographers - Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth
Editor - Jessica Smith
Colorist - Ben Federman
Musical Composer/Editor - Jessica Smith
Director of Photography - Nicole Davis
After
film by Barbora Kučeríková (c) 2018 CZECH REPUBLIC
WEExperimental video-performance short film about contact between people. Would you be scared of last person on the world?
Barbora Kučeríková - Director, Writer & Director of photography
Tomas Bata University in Zlin - Producer
Daniel Kvašňovský - Dancer
Michal Nagy - Dancer
Two-Part Invention
film by Steve Clarke (c) 2020 USA
Two dancers explore merging and separating, making use of camera. Music by J.S. Bach.
Steve Clarke - Director, Concept & Videography
Raquelle Pollock - Choreography & Dancer
Marissa Stockstad - Dancer
ElleTango
film by Isabella Scarpellini (c) 2020 ITALY
Encounter - complicity - magic: this is what happens in a Tango.
Isabella Scarpellini - Director
Oscar Gori - Writer & Dancer
Lucian Semprini - Writer & Dancer
Elletango - Producer
No Mientas - Orquesta de Juan DArienzo - Music
Wall To Wall
film by Styliani Lamprinou (c) 2020 GREECE
A fantasy made with three walls, two female bodies and only one act: pushing. Pushing as a metaphor of human effort against the walls, barriers, limits that we set for ourselves in the space. A small, ordinary room in a city apartment is transformed into a laboratory of tactile sensuality. The two women are pushing walls that cannot be pushed. They accentuate the limits of their space and celebrate their creative effort. Their direct and focused manner, free from stereotypes of femininity creates an analogy with their efforts in everyday life. Pushing to give birth, pushing for their rights towards equality of all sexes and transgenders, pushing as trying to juggle the multiple roles that they have to assume in society. Towards the end, they realize that the walls did fall nor nor disappear. They accept, they move on, more freely and happy to have pushed, as they roll their way out of the imprints and statements that they left in the space.
Styliani Lamprinou - Director
Astero Styliani Lamprinou - Writer, Producer & Dancer
Estelle Delcambre - Dancer
Oliver Imfeld - Camera
The Grammar of Space
fim by Charly Santagado (c) 2020 USA
The Space of Grammar is an exploration of shapes and rhythm. The choreography, videography, and music was all created around preconceived rhythmic structures and we each choreographed each others individual sections.
Charly Santagado - Director, Dancer, Choreographer & Sound
Bailey Benoot - Dancer, Choreographer
Shadow
film by Francesca Jandasek (c) 2020 USA
I first got the idea for this film while researching the Romanian Legend of the Arges Monastery for a full evening length show I created in 2018. In the legend, a pregnant woman is immured to make the walls of the monastery stand. After further research, I came across the belief of the “stahie,” or shadow, an ancient Eastern European belief and practice that in order for the walls of a building to stand, someone has to be built into the walls either physically (i.e their body), or metaphysically (i.e their shadow). As I delved into the legend and this belief, I found myself facing my many shadows - my many possibilities and my many fears. I found myself questioning: Who is the shadow? What reality/possibility do I choose? Does it even matter, if we all fade away from memory and existence, leaving nothing behind? Ultimately, I was questioning whether, as a woman, it was more important for me to create, or to reproduce. And, why do I have this need? Is it to achieve a sort of immortality, a way to exist beyond my existence, whether through the creation of offspring, or art creation? The shadows represent my personal struggle of what realities/possibilities to choose as a woman artist - art creation vs. procreation. Besides the central theme being a female dilemma, this film is female created (directed, composed, performed, and edited by women).
Francesca Jandasek - Director, Writer, Producer & Music
Antonella Redekosky - Dancer
Ashley Krost - Dancer
L’AMANT DES MONTS
film by Lilieyes (c) 2021 FRANCE
“L’Amant des Monts” It's a sweet breath, A cry of freedom, A hymn to love for oneself, just for oneself. Have the courage to surrender, Glimpse the light and touch the sun with your fingertips. LOVE, LIVE, EXIST ... BE With L’Amant des Monts, LilieEyes offers us her first creation as a director. Self-taught photographer for more than 10 years, his work expresses the desire to transmit a deep look at the Being photographed, both inside and outside. Drawing on natural lights, she endeavors to portray the emotion of the Body and the tension of the Spirit, staged and inspired by the identity of her models.
LiliEyes - Director & Writer
Julien Averty - Producer
Guilhem Machenaud - Director of Photographer
Alexis Dehimi / Mars Octobre - Music
CAPSUS - Production
Dear Flamingo
film by Hannah Sullivan & Amy Wilson (c) 2020 USA
Filmed together in 2019, edited in insolation in 2020: How do we disconnect from the one(s) we love(d) and learn to stand on our own two feet again? "Dear Flamingo”—in both process & presentation— illustrates the laborious process of finding connection with another, disconnecting from a loved one, and maintaining individuation of self. This screendance short film is presented in collaboration by Dance In the Annex and ArtPeers.
Hannah Sullivan - Director, Movement Score/Performance
Amy Wilson - Director, Movement Score/Performance
Seth Thompson - Director, Cinematography, Editor, Musical Score
Erin Wilson - Director, Cinematography, Colorist
Jeremy Verwys - Musical Score
Dance In The Annex - Producer
ArtPeers - Producer
Nature Morte - Pandemic Dance No. 3
film by Richard Daniels (c) 2021 USA
Nature Morte. Life may have stilled. All is not calm.
Richard Daniels - Director, Producer & Dancer
Swivel
film by Lois Norman (c) 2019 UK
What if, you can be all of who you are and still allow another? That just for one night, judgement no longer exists? What if, an intimacy of touch, a truth of want, Swivels around your doubt and trusts? What if, love is not a gender, it is a swivel of the heart? Swivel is a short gender fluid dance story by Award winning director Lois Norman, starring the trailblazing Iron&Sparks. With visceral Cinematography by Canadian Teryl Brouillette, powerful Sound Design by UK's Jemma Cholawo and New Zealand's Helen Mountfort moving cello score, Swivel is a brave leap of faith, that moves to express the courage it takes, to explore sexuality and self with true equality, acceptance and compassion.
Lois Norman - Director, Writer, Producer & Editing
Iron&Sparks - Dancers
Teryl Brouillette - DOP & Editing
Jemma Cholawo - Sound Design
Helen Mountfort - Score
CHEIO
film by Igor Correa (c) 2020 BRAZIL
Classical dancer contained in social isolation, awakens to the desire to express his art. Confined in a cabin in the mountains, to the sound of Nocturne by Chopin, anguished by the socially imposed impediments, has the reverse impetus of the violist who also aims to create. Between musical notes and dancing, both overflow their haunted needs night after night without stepping on the stage.
Igor Correa - Director & Writer
Verus Films - Producer
Reginaldo Oliveira - Coreographer, Director & Choreographer
Saulo Finelon - Dancer
Victor Botene - Violist
Carolina Fagundes - Sound Designer
Musta Juli - Color Grading
Angelina
film by Holly Wilder (c) 2021 USA
Set to Lizzy McAlpine's heartbreaking song of the same name, "Angelina" is a queer love story that creeps into your heart and lingers for a while after, reminding you so sweetly of a love that’s slipped away.
Holly Wilder - Director, Choreographer & Editor
Yoshie Fujimoto Kateada - Dancer
Victoria Daylor - Dancer & Assistant Editor
Duncan Wilder - Cinematographer
Lizzy McAlpine - Music
Teeter
film by Mackenzie Carlson (c) 2021 CANADA
Teeter portrays a codependent relationship between two people; one of whom plays the role of supporter and caretaker whilst the other moves freely, unencumbered by their own instability. The help given is often taken without the knowledge of the person receiving it; as if an invisible safety net is constantly restoring them back to a safe stance. This piece is inspired by the physicality of teetering to the edge and then past the point of no return. And is brought to life by the sacrifice of a keeper’s responsibility to stabilize their partner. This piece is an exploration of the physical and mental relationship between falling and catching.
Mackenzie Carlson - Director, Writer & Producer
Aiden Cass - Dancer
Sarah Hutton - Dancer
Meaghan Gipps - Vigeographer / Editor
Séance, The Holding On and The Letting Go
film by Rick Guest & Rob Rae (c) 2021 UK
An exquisite study of love and loss through the choreography of Jordan James Bridge, set to a haunting sonic landscape by Tom Ashbrook. This astonishing new film from Rick Guest & Rob Rae features the incredible talents of dancers Eileih Muir and Izzac Carroll, with stunning costumes by fashion editor Olivia Pomp. Rick Guest - Director
Rob Rae - Director
Eileih Muir - Dancer
Izzac Carroll - Dancer
Jordan James Bridge - Choreographer
die Schichten der Wiederverbindung - the Layers of Reconnecting
film by Karolina Wyrwal (c) 2021 GERMANY
Longing for touch, embrace and human body contact were the key points explored in the story. It was a creative choreographic challenge. Bodies with phenomenal physical abilities are experiencing confinement and limited possibilities for contact and space. Given these unique global circumstances, individual creatives and dance companies have had to come up with new and innovative ways of continuing their work through the pandemic.
Karolina Wyrwal - Director, Choreography, Producer, Dancer & Editing
Krzysztof Lubka - Choreography, Producer & Dancer
Jakub Bessarab - Producer & Camera
Aga Bessarab - Camera Assistent & Light
Michal Szyksznian - Costume Illustrations
Agata Adamowicz - Production Manager & Space
Paul Tinsley - Music
smitten
film by Molly Huey & Olivia Nellis (c) 2020 USA
While stuck in quarantine, Molly Huey & Olivia Nellis collaborated with music artist Quinn Boger to create a webcam short.
Molly Huey - Director, Dancer & Editing
Olivia Nellis - Director & Dancer
Quinn Boger - Music
Gorilla Girls
film by Erin Malley (c) 2019 USA
It's fast, it's furious, it's Gorilla Girls
Erin Malley - Director
Porcelain
film by Roswitha Chesher (c) 2017 UK
A table, two chairs, some teacups... a lifetime together... Porcelain. A story of love…. life and its many changes, meeting, sharing, caring, dependency, and loss. A couple show their story of how the strength of their relationship informs the way they adapt and accept a change brought on by a serious health issue.
Roswitha Chesher - Director
Sheila Hartley - Dancer
Ian Russell - Dancer
Trinity Laban - Producer
Stella Howard - Choreographer