Short Films Programme 1: Arrival

PHYSICAL CULTURE

2022 | Netherlands | 7’37”
Director: Anna Bogomolova
Choreographer: Connor Schumacher
Composer: Inga Mauer
Company: Blitzkickers / Dansateliers

Physical Culture invites us to explore physical movement, to explore who we are when we dance and why we do it. Placing some universal existential questions into refreshingly queer, playful packaging. It’s rave, it’s queer, it’s for everybody.

STAVROPOL

2022 | UK / Russian Federation | 4’14”
Director: Andrew Margetson
Choreographer: Irina Kononova
Composer / Sound: Travis Lake
Company: Moth Productions

A short dance film featuring a choreographed ‘battle’ between two teams of female dancers.

SHADE

2022 | UK | 2’06”
Director / Composer: Poppy Payne
Choreographers: Kuldip Singh-Barmi, Sue Smith
College / University: University of the Arts London

Led by improvised scores for body and camera, this short experimental dance film explores the textures of the skin and the forest: choreographically, aurally and cinematically.

WALKS WITH ME

2021 | Finland | 10’47”
Director / Choreographer: Kati Kallio
Composer / Sound: Janne Laine
Company: Pystymetsä Oy and Myrskyryhmä

80-year-old Sanna lives alone with her memories and houseplants. One day she sees an event from her window that makes her reminisce about her friends and notice her own loneliness.

FORCE MAJEURE

2022 | UK | 4’
Directors / Choreographers: Magali Charrier, Simon Ellis
Composer / Sound: Simon Ellis
Company: skellis.net

Force Majeure is both documentary and animation. It draws on a series of interviews with freelance dance artists during the COVID-19 pandemic to tell the story of one fictional person’s experience of dance under lockdown.

SOFT FOCUS

2022 | Ireland | 12’10”
Directors: Lucia Kickham, Luca Truffarelli
Choreographer: Lucia Kickham
Filmmaker / Sound: Luca Truffarelli
Company: Supported by Liz Roche Company through an Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award

A short film that softens edges and seeks to exist in a less defi ned space. An anxious body moves to release some control, allowing chaos to sit beside the order.

DOLOROSA

2022 | Ireland | 10’22”
Directors: Emma Martin, Hugh O’Conor
Choreographer: Emma Martin
Composer / Sound: Dvorak
Company: United Fall

A young woman yields to a predetermined story. Someone’s son wrestles inside the abyss of his own skin. A woman’s face marked by hope, pain and triumph; a young girl rebels against expectation and success. A film reflecting on humanity in all its glory, innocence and desperation, power and vulnerability.

ÉIST (LISTEN)

2022 | Ireland | 4’48”
Director / Choreographer: Stephanie Keane
Music: Cormac Begley, Stephanie Keane, Moisés Mas Garcia

With sound and movement exploration at the heart of this fi lm, Éist explores the internal experience of the contemporary traditional Irish dancer, speaking to wider themes of identity, authenticity, defi ance and reclamation.

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