Festival Premiere Screening
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.
Wolf, 2018, United Kingdom, 13 min
Directed by Natasha Gilmore
Produced by Nicola Denman
Choreography by Natasha Gilmore
Dancing by Barrowland Ballet's Intergenerational Company, Wolf Pack
Music composed by Mairi Campbell, Luke Sutherland
Cinematography by George Geddes
Edited by Blair Young
Costumes by Alison Brown
"Wolf" is set in the stunning natural environment of autumnal Scotland and incorporates a cast spanning three generations. At its heart is the interplay between being guided to the right path in life by older generations and the need to forge your own path and choose your own way. Not to invalidate advice or guidance given by others but to acknowledge that ultimately we must make our own choices. Using imagery from well-known fairy tales and morality folklore, "Wolf" explores the interaction and connection between intergenerational communities and families.
Bad Hombre, 2020, United States, 3 min
Produced and Directed by Martin Lombard, Facundo Lombard
Choreography and dancing by Martin Lombard, Facundo Lombard
Featuring Lombard Twins
Music by Antonio Sanchez
Cinematography by Andy Cao
Camera Operation by Andy Cao, Anai Garcia Medina
Artists / performers Martin and Facundo Lombard and five-time Grammy-winning drummer / composer Antonio Sánchez, tell, through the language of music and dance, the story of a man who struggles to make his voice heard and what this can cause.
Birds, 2021, France, 9 min
Directed by John Degois
Choreography by John Degois
Cinematography by John Degois
"Birds" is a short digital choreographic piece imagined/thought/directed by John Degois. With this piece, he tries to transpose live performance into film. He thus chooses to make a sequence shot in order to keep the notion of "live," and slow motion to allow the spectator to have time to watch where he wants. He also breaks the perspective by not necessarily centering the main action in the middle of the image. Against a background of melancholy, "Birds" evokes a time when the question of freedom did not arise.
Inside Out, 2021, United States, 3 min
Directed by Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman
Choreography by Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman, Jake Warren, Casey Howes
Cinematography by Ambrose Eng, Oliver Peng
A couple faces an accidental trauma on a nondescript Sunday morning, which mirror's the world's seemingly stable, but deeply precarious, natural balance.
My Own Worst Enemy, 2020, Netherlands, 6 min
Directed by Harrie Verbeek, Jelena Kostić
Produced by Monne Tuinhout
Choreography by Jelena Kostić
Dancing by Noëmi Wagner
Cinematography by Richard Spierings
Written by Harrie Verbeek
On your way to reaching a goal you are often battling against yourself. You take various steps, but it is the most unpredictable move that defeats your own worst enemy.
Ways of Seeing, 2020, China, 8 min
Directed by DJ Furth
Produced by Chen Minghui, Geyan
Choreography by DJ Furth
Featuring Amy Grubb, Zheng Lingmin
Music by IXYXI
Cinematography by Dustin Tung
Art Direction by Jingjing
Executive Production by Patsy Lo
"Ways of Seeing" is a film about the transformative, healing power of nature and female wisdom as expressed through movement. We wanted to bring attention to the courage it takes to sit with the inevitable pain we experience as we seek to grow. The film seeks to focus on the ways our inner world is expressed in how we move— particularly subconscious movement. And, based on this, to investigate the healing effects of liberated movement.
WECreate Spaces: Limerick, 2020, United Kingdom, 3 min
Directed by Ana Baer, Heike Salzer
Produced by WECreate Productions
Choreography and dancing by Heike Salzer, Michelle Nance
Music composed by Joaquin Lopez Chas
Filmmaker: Ana Baer
Costume Design by Robert Burton
"WECreate Spaces: Limerick" is a poetic visual portrait of the historic city of Limerick. Bodies and costume merge with the materials and shapes, resonating the textural and rhythmic layers of the urban landscapes. The work suggests an embodied ethnographic view of the local, drawing on the visceral ability of the artists to capture ephemeral sensibilities through their presence. This montage highlights echoes of the now along with fragments of the past, revealing the stories that are engrained in the desecrated architecture and felt through the movements of the people of the city.
Downriver, 2020, Switzerland, 10 min
Directed by Andrea Boll
Produced by Nico Gutmann
Choreography by Andrea Boll
Dancing by Ivan Blagajcevic, Andrea Boll, Chris de Feyter, Hella Immler, Emeric Rabot
Music composed by Alex Zampini
Cinematography by Chris Fawcett, Andrea Boll
Edited by Peter Kadar
Sound Design by Alex Zampini
Sound Mix by Ramón Orza
Water - Leonardo da Vinci called it 'the blood of the planet.' A group of people emerges from the water. They try to resist the current of the river and the stream of people in the city, but have to surrender to the flow and are washed ashore. On the shore, the stranded seek for hold and refuge. In the course of the film ‘against or with the flow', ‘resistance and devotion’ manifest as a primal instinct, as a survival strategy.
Mudlove, 2019, Finland, 7 min
Produced and Directed by Tero Peltoniemi
Choreography by Tero Hytönen
Dancing by Salla Rytövuori, Tero Hytönen, Pauliina Sjöberg, Kalle Pulkkinen
Filmmaker: Tero Peltoniemi
Production Designer by Fabian Nyberg
Boy meets girl at a coffee shop, and the two are thrown into a mud wrestling ring to find a common path forward, while their best friends act as coaches.
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.
This Breath Together, 2021, United States, 12 min
Directed by Michelle Bernier
Produced by Michelle Bernier, Thomas Wingerd
Dancing by Danielle Garrison, Keith Haynes, Sarah Harrison, Bridget Heddens, Vivian Kim Gina Medina, Emma Michaux, Alex Milewski, Peg Posnick, Jessica Riggs, Gwen Ritchie, Marla Shultz, Luciana da Silva, Alfred Smith, Briana Smith, Nancy Smith, Miah Yager
Music composed by Kristen Demaree, Sean Connolly, Dudu Fuentes
Edited by Michelle Bernier
Director of Photography by Jesse Rarick
Poetry by Brooke McNamara
Sans Souci’s Community Dance Film Project was created to engage Boulder artists of many genres to inspire our local community to recognize all we have to offer. Each dancer was paired one of the City of Boulder’s most iconic outdoor sites and asked to create movement responding to that location along a theme: “The first fresh breath in a long time.” Emerging from their spring 2020 quarantines, they reconnected with their own dance-deprived bodies, and brought their uniqueness and presence to each space, activating it with movement. The work encompasses ballet, tap, contemporary, house, waacking, aerial dance, and samba; artists hired included BIPOC and LGBTQ performers, those with disabilities, and dancers on the older end of the age spectrum.
This Breath Together, 2021, United States, 12 min
Directed by Michelle Bernier
Produced by Michelle Bernier, Thomas Wingerd
Dancing by Danielle Garrison, Keith Haynes, Sarah Harrison, Bridget Heddens, Vivian Kim Gina Medina, Emma Michaux, Alex Milewski, Peg Posnick, Jessica Riggs, Gwen Ritchie, Marla Shultz, Luciana da Silva, Alfred Smith, Briana Smith, Nancy Smith, Miah Yager
Music composed by Kristen Demaree, Sean Connolly, Dudu Fuentes
Edited by Michelle Bernier
Director of Photography by Jesse Rarick
Poetry by Brooke McNamara
Sans Souci’s Community Dance Film Project was created to engage Boulder artists of many genres to inspire our local community to recognize all we have to offer. Each dancer was paired one of the City of Boulder’s most iconic outdoor sites and asked to create movement responding to that location along a theme: “The first fresh breath in a long time.” Emerging from their spring 2020 quarantines, they reconnected with their own dance-deprived bodies, and brought their uniqueness and presence to each space, activating it with movement. The work encompasses ballet, tap, contemporary, house, waacking, aerial dance, and samba; artists hired included BIPOC and LGBTQ performers, those with disabilities, and dancers on the older end of the age spectrum.
