Short Films Programme 3: Elements

DREAMING OF RARE MOMENTS, DRY TONES, AND AIR TRAPPED ETERNALLY BETWEEN PIECES OF METAL

2022 | Ireland | 8’
Director / Choreographer: Aneta Dortová
Composer / Sound: William Troy
College / University: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick

This work is a screendance meditation on Aneta’s relationship and memories of the landscape and the environment of her hometown of Plzeň.

CULTIVATE

2023 | UK | 4’ 42”
Director: Sima Gonsai
Choreographers: Kesha Raithatha, Meera Patel, Karen Wood (movement director)
Composer / Sound: Annie Matani
Company: Birmingham Dance Network

Two dancers ground themselves in soil and ritual as they dance a duet with the earth. This film responds to localised climate research in Birmingham about soil health focusing on soil toxic inheritance, farming practices and soil preservation. Told through South Asian dance and film.

THE SANG BOWL

2021 | Ireland | 6’
Director / Choreographer / Sound: Natasha Bourke

For all the bodies of water, here and no more, and Global Water Dances.

WATER & MAN

2021 | UK | 7’48”
Directors: Rob Heaslip, Katrina McPherson
Choreographer: Rob Heaslip
Music / Sound: Philip Jeck (music), John Cobban (sound design)

A screendance ritual for the presence and absence of water.

CHILDREN OF THE SOIL

2022 | New Zealand | 8’38”
Director / Choreographer / Sound: Simon Ellis
Company: skellis.net

Children of the Soil is a short film about the slow work of growth, gravity and decay.

HUBRIS

2023 | Canada | 29’30”
Director: Jules de Niverville
Choreographer: Tony Chong, Kyra Jean Green, Céline Richard-Robichon, Ja “Jigsaw”
James, Britton Johnson
Composer: Ben Lukas Boysen
Sound: Sacha Ratcliffe
Creative Producer: Kathy Sperberg

HUBRIS is an experimental docu-narrative that chronicles three individual journeys interpreted by dance and circus artists, exploring a powerful storyline about climate change.

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