FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: About FACE Edition (April 2021)
Aprul 23rd - May 9th
In OCTOBER 2019 when we came up with the theme About FACE, we thought is was just a clever use of words and would open up submissions to a diverse grouping of films ...18 months later seeing a person's face has a very different, deeper and emotional meaning.
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Jam upload download upload jam film by Sumedha Bhattacharyya (c) 2020 INDIA
An experiment based on sound design based on custom electronics , modular synth and the expressive facial choreography of Navarasa or the Nine emotional states in Indian dance and drama treatise : love (shringaara), laughter (haasya), kind-heartedness or compassion (karuna), anger (roudra), courage (veera), fear (bhayaanaka), disgust (bheebhatsya), wonder or surprise (adbhutha) and peace or tranquility (shaantha). Sumedha Bhattacharyya - Director Sound.codes - Sound Design and Editing
THE GIFT film by Paul Mignot (c) 2021 FRANCEThe gift is a dance performance to express the beauty inside all of us. Paul Mignot - Director Jeanne Gay - Producer Dancers - Lisa Deckert, Laura Arned & Lorenzo Finocchi
The Wonder Years film by James Morrow (c) 2020 USA
Set in the extraordinary years of the 2020s, “The Wonder Years” looks both back and forward through the eyes of Eli, the oldest of five children in the Motley family, on the tribulations and joys of growing up in the United States as a twenty something black male. With music by Laurence Hobgood, the low-fi anti-tech home movie style of the work is a nod to classic 80’s sitcoms with an open, unapologetic, and ultimately vulnerable journey filled with all the feels and even some much-needed levity.
Tremor film by dominique Rivoal (c) 2020 UK
tremor is a somatic frequency, a way of making the body available for affects that lead not only to tremble but to make movements that redistribute personal and space energies.
dominique Rivoal - Director
Valéria Vicente - Dancer
Patrick Wladika - sound
What Never Was film by Joanna Lees (c) 2020 USA
What Never Was (2020) is a 9 minute work made to honor and reimagine the creative work of Alternative Motion Project’s canceled 9th Season Performance. While this film draws inspiration from the work that never got to see the stage, we did not set out to simply recreate choreography that already existed and put it on camera. We wanted to build a new creation that has its own unique identity. Joanna Lees - Director, Choreographer & Producer Kristin Howe - Assistant Director, Choreographer & Producer Choreographer - Erinn Liebhard, Brenna Mosser & The Performers Dancers - Stephanie Flanagan, Harper Foote, Karin Jarvise, Laura K Johnson, Julia Moser-Hardy, Brenna Mosser, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Addie Smith, Bridgett Tegen & Lauren Vanchina V. Paul Virtucio - Cinematography Tony Stoeri - Lighting Design Michael Wall - Music Composer
ONE DAY ON EARTH film by Yoko Murakami (c) 2021 USA
ONE DAY ON EARTH follows an alien found on earth. As the alien navigates the first sensory experience of encountering the ocean, we are reminded of feelings of pure wonder and amazement. Concept/Movement by Yoko Murakami Music by Oowets Filmmaking by Judexsyd and Zhen Qin
Self Portrait film by Austin Warren Coats USA
Edges film by Frances Mulinix (Vandellous) (c) 2021 USA
Edges explores my experiences over the past year as I struggled to come to terms with separation, isolation, injuries that severely impacted my ability to move and dance, and personal and professional losses. This performance is a reflection on mental health, “public persona”, a failing body, social media, domestic violence, and dysmorphia. Frances Mulinix (Vandellous) - Director, Key Cast, Sound Recording & Editing
FRAINTENDIMENTI (MISUNDERSTANDINGS) film by Alexandre Manuel (c) 2020 ITALY
FRAINTENDIMENTI (MISUNDERSTANDINGS) / Fra · in · ten · a · to · mén / masculine noun Incomplete, arbitrary, fallacious interpretation of someone's words or even actions FRAINTENDIMENTI is the investigation of the extended meaning of the word "phantasmagoria" or "a series of unfounded assumptions that excessively affect the imagination". Our communication with others is also built on incommunicability, misunderstandings. FRAINTENDIMENTI moves on this subtle rope invisible as well as tangible of the sense of incomprehension of bodies and minds. A deviated or incomplete interpretation of an action or a word, the misunderstanding moves according to one's point of view, according to each person's socio-psychological background and inevitably affects the strings of our imagination. The imaginary that at that juncture overwhelmingly takes possession of the most rational part. The investigation of the movement of bodies takes us to the most introverted plane of incomprehension, the moment in which we are no longer in phase with the surrounding world; when an internal phase shift is created, a confusion in the mind where multiple parts, rational and irrational, coexist. In the non-communicability, there is a superposition of the points of view between the parts, a space-time overlap in reading the same event that perhaps creates in each of us this confused feeling towards the other: staying close or far so as not to disappear? "To love is to misunderstand" Fernando Pessoa ALEXANDRE MANUEL - Director & Writer JIMMIE SANTONI - Director ELISA CARLETTI - Dancer FEDERICA SQUADRONI - Dancer
(micro)Requiem film by Misha Penton (c) 2020 USA
(micro)Requiem: remembrance. A new film by soprano and composer Misha Penton. A six movement (micro)Requiem: a dream-world of transformations inspired by Mozart’s unfinished Requiem in D minor. Conceived, Directed, Composed, & Performed by Misha Penton. The (micro)Requiem is a voice and video reflection upon the challenges, sorrows, and expectations of 2020. It is a work of hope and remembrance which re-imagines healing, renewal, and rebirth. released in honor of All Hallows / All Souls / Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), 2020. Many thanks to Michael Walsh for his support of this project and coaching on the Latin diction and to Todd Hulslander for his beautiful audio mastering of the final recording. Filmed by Dave Nickerson & Raul Casares. mishapenton.com Misha Penton - Director, Producer, Dancer, Composer & Choreographer
GreenDream film by Joyce Lo (c) 2020 CANADA
Created in collaboration with Anthony Fung, this was my first foray into creating, directing, and performing in a dance film. Green is a colour that symbolizes balance, growth, learning and harmony, and represents the start of a new chapter as I pursue my graduate studies in Dance at Monclair State University. Joyce Lo - Director & Dancer Anthony Fung - Producer & Music
In the Void film by Alicia Ross (c) 2020 USA
Alicia Ross - Director
Nicole Smith - Dancer
New life film by Chris Garcia (c) 2018 FRANCE
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. Chris Garcia - Director & Writer Septième - Producer Mélanie Bokata - Dancer
Still Here film by Rosely Conz (c) 2020 USA
Still Here is a movie made during the Covid-19 pandemic and it reminds audiences that even when empty, theatre spaces continue inhabited by the artists who performed there. Rosely Conz - Director, Choreographer & Editor Benjamin W. Grohs - Director of Photography Leighton J. Collingwood - Production Manager Dancers - Ashlyn Holland, Alexandra Karakuc, Audrey Plouffe, Nicole Yost & Allison Zardus Technical Support and Camera Operators - Martin Betancourt, Annabelle Avolio, Andrew Oberski & Samantha Smith Editors - Annabelle Avolio, Samantha Smith & Andrew Oberski
Give Me A Sec film by Maria Evans (c) 2019 UK
A short film inspired by the moment before one moves and the simultaneous constant motion of daily life. Maria Evans - Director, Writer, Producer & Dancer Alexander Robinson - Dancer Rebecca Cummins - Camera Assistant
Wounded, Not Conquered film by Troy Bieser (c) 2019 USA
An abstract dance performance film about the selves we reveal online, and what the true nature of “authenticity” means in an environment where words and images are robbed of their original meaning. Troy Bieser - Director & Writer Sally O'Grady - Dancer & Writer Judith Hoffman - Producer Jordan Pilgrim - Photographer
舞蹈影像《低头》跳格一分钟. Lower the Head film by Zhou LiHeng (c) 2019 CHINA
"When you look down at the moment, can you notice the beautiful scenery around you?" The idea of dance video originates from daily life, on the way to and from work, on the bus and on the street everywhere. This is the norm now, like an addiction. People will always say a word, "no matter how difficult the front, we can not bow", this is how inspirational words, but all of us in front of the phone underground their head, this is what people often say "bow" it. Filmed in a dark space, dancers seem to be blindfolded and immersed in their own world. Abstract expressions, staring blankly, sometimes they do not know what they are wrong. The stretched body movements in the repressed space express the fantasy and emptiness of the virtual world. It has become an indispensable part of our life, work, entertainment, shopping, food and so on, if it is not our life is lack of color? The length of the video is set at two minutes or so of the short film. Zhou LiHeng - Director & Producer Gao Rong - Writer & Dancer
See You When You Appear film by Holly Wilder (c) 2020 USA
"See You When You Appear" is a dance film about the relationships we cherish as they come and go along our path. Made during a quarantine residency, it depicts the hellos and goodbyes that fill our lives, and is a celebration of the people who make each of our journeys so full.
Holly Wilder - Director & Choreographer
Curtis Thomas - Dancer
Yoshie Fujimoto Kateada - Dancer
Victoria Daylor - Dancer
Duncan Wilder - Cinematographer
Dylan Ryche - Music
X and O film by Jody Oberfelder (c) 2020 USA
A human tic tac toe game with 26 players, this short film, conceived and directed by Jody Oberfelder, with animation and editing by Eric Siegel, and music by Andy Akiho, seeks connections on and off the grid.
Jody Oberfelder - Director
Andy Akiho - Music & Writer
Eric Siegel - Editing, Animation & Writer
Dancers - Performers Kyla Barkin, Cara Brooke, Simon Burril,l Nigel Butler, Lyla Forest Butler, Nigel Butler, Amy Carlson, Janessa Clark, Emmarose Cohen, Jane Comfort, Aditi Dhruv, Emily Giovine Pierre, Guilbault, Misuzu Hara, Marie Christine Katz. Malcolm Low, Mary Madsem. Jana Oberfelder-Riehm, Jody Oberfelder, Maya Orchin, Lonnie Poupard, Jule Jo Rameriz, Mark Sanderlin, Amanda Sommers, Hannah Wendel, Mark Willis & Mei Yamanaka