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Where We're Going, 2019, United States, 3 min
Directed by Heidi Duckler, Katherine Helen Fisher
Produced by Caroline Haydon, Raphaelle Ziemba
Choreography by Heidi Duckler
Featuring Heidi Duckler Dance
Dancing by Raymond Ejiofor, Tess Hewlett, Ryan Walker Page, Himerria Wortham, Ching Ching Wong
Music composed by Joe Cunningham
Cinematography by Shimmy Boyle
Edited by Shimmy Boyle, Katherine Helen Fisher
Costumes by Debby Weiss, Mimi Haddon
Graphics by Dan Evans
Filmed on the rooftop of the historic Bendix Building in the garment district of Los Angeles where Heidi Duckler has her office space, this work is choreographed by Heidi Duckler and performed by her dancers, her staff and several workers from the building. This short work explores a common feeling in Duckler's oeuvre - a sense of belonging and how we define family.
The Air Before Me, 2021, United States, 5 min
Directed by Shaun Clarke
Produced by Shaun Clarke, John Lam, Helen Pickett
Choreography by Helen Pickett
Dancing by John Lam
Music composed by Peter Salem
Edited by Shaun Clarke
Director of Photography by Daniel Jacobs
"The Air Before Me" is a short dance film that connects ethereal space and light with human agency in a continual affirmation of the present’s power.
Flood, 2021, United States, 4 min
Produced and Directed by Mike Esperanza
Choreography by Mike Esperanza
Featuring BARE Dance Company
Dancing by Mike Esperanza, Leann Alduenda
Music composed by Mike Esperanza
“Flood" is a depiction of time and its build in spacial dynamics, showing moments of interaction that dwell in surreal forms of suspension.
The Nangiarkoothu Artist, 2020, India/USA, 12 min
Produced and Directed by Deepa Nair
Featuring Dr Aparna Nangiar
The Nangiarkoothu Artist is a portrait dance film that uses a multi-narrative approach of traditional storytelling and a staged dance performance to create a poetic profile of a young Nangiarkoothu artist, who practices and teaches a 2000 year old Sanskrit dance/theatre art form in Kerala, India. The audience is invited to become part of the dancer’s world and leave with a new awareness of an art form so ancient and yet little known to the larger world.
The Broken Phone Project, 2020, Netherlands, 4 min
Directed by Sara Europaeus
Produced by Athina Liakopoulou
Choreography by Sara Europaeus
Cinematography by Niels Lockhorst
Spoken Word by Lin An Phoa
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the streets of Amsterdam have changed, and so have the people. A group of international dance artists through a common movement task reflect the time of the pandemic-- how has it has affected them? A common experience but an individual interpretation. Each with their unique story, filmed individually, untouched. When so much has changed, how can we connect again?
Akasha, 2017, Switzerland, 5 min
Directed by Sean Wirz
Produced by Hannah Rocchi, Sean Wirz
Choreography by Sean Wirz/Hannah Rocchi
Featuring none
Dancing by Jelena Pfister, Simon Progin, Annina Biesold, Nadir Josi
Music by edIT/The Glitch Mob (Los Angeles)
Cinematography by Sean Wirz/Jean-Christophe Dupasquier
Edited by Sean Wirz
"Akasha: the all-embracing fifth element. It moves effortlessly on the shores of the world. It overcomes gravity, explores the deepest of waters and fuels with its power the eternal flame of life. Akasha knows no space, no time, no fixed form.
This high-tension dance short offers the viewer a surreal encounter with the sovereign of earth, air, water and fire. Akasha is embodied by four different performers who move to the futuristic song Ants by Los Angeles based musician edIT. His quintessential electronic music contrasts heavily with the metaphysical theme of the film. The result is a vibrant and ephemeral glimpse into the powers of the universe."
The Gift, 2021, France, 5 min
Directed by Paul Mignot
Produced by Jeanne Gay
Choreography by Lisa Deckert
Dancing by Lisa Deckert, Laura Arned, Lorenzo Finocchi
Cinematography by Paul Mignot
"The Gift" is a dance performance to express the beauty inside all of us.
Tide, 2020, Ireland, 6 min
Directed by Laura Murphy
Choreography by Laura Murphy
Dancing by Marion Cronin, Sarah Ryan, Kevin Coquelard
Music composed by Melanie
Filmmaker: Luca Truffarelli
"Tide" contrasts the pace of industry with human movement, and the soft yielding nature of the body with the hard edges of manmade objects.
Axis Mundi, 2020, France, 2 min
Directed by Patrick Foch
Choreography by Celine Garbay, Loriana Lorenzon
Featuring Céline Garbay, Loriana Lorenzon
Cinematography by Benjamin Ziegler
The "axis mundi" is a connection between heaven and earth, between the divine and the material. With this gravity-defying choreography, imagined and performed at the top of a mountain and on the verticality of a pole dance bar, I wanted to deliver my own vision of this "axis mundi." Two bodies merge and evolve precisely between earth and sky, in a quest for physical and spiritual elevation along this invisible thread.