FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: HERstory Edition

(January 2022)

Shifting focus to HERstory, the quiet contrivance of the female role and the experience through the feminine gaze. The mothers, sisters, partners… the struggling, yet always strong, support systems that keep the world moving… growing… nurtured… loved.

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Tapis Roulant
film by Kat Sullivan & Cassandra Trenary (c) 2020 USA
Tapis Roulant is a mixed media dance film conceived, directed, and shot in social isolation by artist Kat Sullivan and American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Cassandra Trenary. The film starts in a dystopic digital world where we see a conveyor belt processing endless women with perfect smiles plastered on their face and synchronously performing pageantry gestures. A single avatar is able to break free of the near trance-like state of this world’s other inhabitants and explores a strange portal. Upon entering the portal, we are shifted to the ‘real’ world, and while our protagonist realizes that the forced smiles and saturated pink aesthetic are gone, not everything was left behind. Our protagonist must face herself and her own doubts that have been imprinted upon her by other people’s opinions. She then returns to her dystopian universe, but with the conviction that she can dictate her own path in life.
Kat Sullivan - Director, Producer, Editor & Animation
Cassandra Trenary - Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematographer & Dancer
D.D. Curry - Music
Todd Bryant - Technical Consultant

Out of the Folds of Women
film by Anabella Lenzu (c) 2020 USA
With direction and choreography by Anabella Lenzu and videography and music by Todd Carroll, "Out of the Folds of Women" tells a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman, mother, and immigrant today. “Unfolded out of the folds of the woman Man comes unfolded, And is always to come unfolded" -Walt Whitman Anabella Lenzu - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer Todd Carroll - Producer, Videography & Music

A’we deh ya (All of us are here)
Film by Paloma McGregor (c) 2021 USA
Sketch 321 - Salt/Cane/Womb
Paloma McGregor - Director

500 MOONS
film by Ugne Dievaite (c) 2021 LITHUANIA
Ugne and Natalia, two women, who experience their cyclic nature within the context of western culture and lifestyle, move at their own pace at different stages of life. In this dance of nature and culture, each body searches for its own personal rhythm, as if it was a refuge that allowed us to peacefully dance the dance of our life. Ugne Dievaite - Director, Choreographer & Dancer Natalia García Graus - Dancer Mikas Zabulionis - Cinematography and post-production Vidal - Original Soundtrack Ausra Degutyte-Kancauskiene - Project Coordination

7 Steps to Inner Peace
film by Mervi Junkkonen (c) 2020 SWEDEN
A woman is tired of her daily chores and decides to seek inner peace through a seven step program - a crash course in happiness. Mervi Junkkonen - Director, Writer & Producer Zala Pezdir - Director, Writer & Dancer

Put The Devil Back In Hell
film by Francesca Jandasek (c) 2020 USA
This short film, "Put The Devil Back In Hell", was created during the quarantine (from April to May 2020) and is an adaptation of Day 3, Story 10 from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, is a collection of novellas written in Italy in response to The Black Plague of 1347-1351. In they film, Alibech, on her journey to find God, experiences a sexual awakening. (This is an "isolation project".) Francesca Jandasek - Director, Producer, Music & Dancer Dan Istrate - Dancer Ludovic Jolivet - Editor

Parallel
film by Mary Trunk (c) 2020 USA
Dancers. Same sequence. Remote Locations. Mary Trunk - Director, Producer Olivia Light - Dancer Nuala Sanchez - Dancer Ron Rennells - Music

All the poems I didn't send
fim by Arjan Gebraad (c) 2020 NETHERLANDS
“They don't give a damn whether you win or James and Ruby or Mario and Jackie or the Man in the Moon and Little Miss Muffet. They just want to see a little misery out there so they can feel a little better maybe. They're entitled to that.” There were so many poems written that one day, it was decided to put them all into a space where dance marathons meet with finding comfort in the other one. A dance movie about empathy, entertainment, ritual, participation, spectacle and love. “Help me! Oh please, please!” “Tell me when.” “I'm ready.” “Now?” “Now.” Arjan Gebraad - Director & Dancer Celine Werkhoven - Dancer Hannah Zwaans - Dancer Jeroen Meijer - Dancer Gegam Soghomonyan - Camera Kiki Henger - Colourist

Quake
film by Erin Malley (c) 2014 USA
Steely. Blue. Electric. Fine. A sense of floating while remaining on the ground. Quake is an experimental dance film, a rite of passage. It is a physical exploration of geophysics and plate tectonics. Erin Malley - Directoe, Writer & Producer Katharine Hawthorne - Dancer Daria Kaufman - Dancer Stacey Swan - Dancer

Shoe Horn.Office
film by Ingrid Nachstern (c) 2017 IRELAND
This film deals with the restrictive nature of women's clothing throughout the ages and also with sexism in general. Ingrid Nachstern - Director & Writer Night Star Dance Company - Producer

Euterpe. The Lost Muse
film by Sarah Cole (c) 2020 USA
In a quiet world, a girl who creates music with everything she feels must decide whether or not to embrace her gift; she risks being shunned or truly finding where she belongs.
Sarah Cole - Director, Writer & Producer
Vanessa Cornejo - Dancer
Aaron Dillon - Composer
Jillian Basil - Director of Photography

Turned To Light
film by Luke Naylor-Perrott (c) 2020 UK
A video dance that explores vulnerability using movement and natural light. Andrea Mychaels - Director & Producer

ALEZAN
film by Loïc Faquet (c) 2021 FRANCE
A woman in a wedding dress finds herself in a stable. As her intimacy is being disturbed, she starts wondering about the possibility to choose her own destiny. Loïc Faquet - Director, Choreographer & Writer Alizee Duvernois - Dancer Jeremy Tran - Movie Director

Three Chapters on Togetherness
film by Michelle Koppl (c) 2021 USA
Inspired by and featuring the poems of Yvonne Rainer, this film explores themes of queer love, relationship, and partnership. Michelle Koppl - Director & Dancer Yvonne Rainer - Writer Hallie Chametzky - Poetry Reader

To the Girl I Was. An Annotation From the Margin
film by Rachel Dodson (c) 2020 USA
"To the Girl I Was: An Annotation From the Margin" is dedicated to sharing the lived experience of a woman living her life in the margin of heteronormativity. Rachel Dodson - Director & Producer Taylor Eddleston - Dancer Brantley Bacon - Composer & Pianist Levi Manners - Audio Technician

Above the Trees
film by Tara Z. Mullins & Doug Kass (c) 2016 USA
Above the Trees explores the idea that loved ones who have gone before us may still play a role in our lives. Thirteen years ago, the choreographer, Tara Mullins's grandmother came to her in a series of dreams, revealing to her that she was going to have a baby girl. The film delves into the heart of that experience, the memories of the dreams, the influence on that now teenage girl and the strength that comes from our own beautiful history. Doug Kass - Director & Producer Tara Z. Mullins - Choreographer & Producer NC State Dance Program/Arts NC State - Producer Gini Brown - Dancer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) - Music Justin LeBlanc Design - Costume

and sometimes i wish
film by Garet Wierdsma (c) 2021 USA
Garet Wierdsma - Director Casey Quinlan - Dancer Layla Foley - Dancer Tatum Desouza - Dancer

Silt & Bone
film by Suzanne Chi & Rachel Slater (c) 2020 USA
When a cataclysm is foreseen, this tribe of women must leave their home. They embark on a harrowing journey through an other-worldly and unforgiving environment. Silt and Bone was shot on location in and around the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Mitchell, Oregon, USA. We acknowledge that the area on which we filmed is a part of the traditional cultural lands belonging to the Original People of the Northern Paiute and Tenino Tribes. "Distinguished by varied stripes of red, tan, orange, and black, this area preserves a sequence of past climate change. The Painted Hills Unit also contains a diverse assemblage of leaf fossils aging 39-30 million years old called the Bridge Creek Flora, and a small outcropping of rock containing animal fossils from 30-27 million years ago." https://www.nps.gov/joda/planyourvisit/ptd-hills-unit.htm Suzanne Chi - Director, Dancer & Choreographer Rachel Slater - Director, Dancer & Choreographer Elizabeth Bressler - Dancer Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance - Producer Scott Ballard - Cinematographer Editors - Sara Robbin & Molly Preston Heather Perkins - Sound Design Costume Design - Rio Wrenn & Tracey Durbin Crew - Dicky Dahl & Brad Norton

UTSYN. OUTLOOK
film by Einy Am-Sparks (c) 2020 NORWAY
UTSYN / OUTLOOK is a traveling cinematic journey through movement and architecture, and an intimate view of the unique museum building of Ivar Aasen-tunet in Ørsta, Norway. This dance film is a celebration of the curiosity and hunger for knowledge, and the ability to grow and gain new perspectives through exploring the art of literature as well as looking outward. The film was created for the 20th anniversary of this building, designed by world-renowned architect Sverre Fehn. Einy Am-Sparks - Director & Dancer Nynorsk kultursentrum - Producer