Short Films Programme 4: Between Spaces

SENTENCE

2023 | UK | 9’
Directors: Hugo Glendinning, Rosemary Lee
Music: Isaac Lee-Kronick

Hugo Glendinning and Rosemary Lee’s short film reveals the ephemerality of dance through the experimental use of animation and slow shutter speed.

REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS

2020 | UK | 5’21”
Director / Choreographer: Anna MacDonald
Composer / Sound: Franz Schubert’s Du bist die Ruh transcribed by Liszt played by
Takashi Sato

This film emerged from a series of workshops with people who live with chronic pain, where participants spoke about the endless adjustments, and tiring dynamic planning, that moving with pain requires.

SYMPHONY OF SKILLS

2022 | UK | 2’55”
Director / Choreographer: Karen Wood
Company: Fabric

Rhythm, tap dance and history weave together to create a symphonic arrangement. Improvisation and composition synergise.

TASTING AN ORGANISED DREAM

2023 | Ireland | 16’8”
Director / Choreographer: Alex Vostokova
Composer / Sound: Jack Foster

“I’ve been eagerly looking for a space to cultivate dreams. Not where, but how? A decision was made to use the body as a tool, perhaps a hammer, to dissolve the limbo between real and imaginary space.”

CHAMELEON

2023 | Ireland | 6’12”
Director / Choreographer: Kat Cooley
Composer / Sound: Cormac Byrne

Chameleon explores a world of three figures. Drawing on infl uences from anamorphosis and trompe l’oeil, Chameleon will leave you questioning what you saw and what you didn’t.

EROSION PROJECT

2021 | USA | 7’10”
Director / Choreographer: Dan Su
Composer / Sound: Dan Su, Aaron Granat
Company: Kinobrain
College / University: University of Wisconsin

A tribute to the stark brutalist architecture of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building at University of Wisconsin. Combining haunting choreography and a harsh, industrial-techno score.

OFFERING

2023 | Canada | 5’
Director: Marlene Millar
Choreographer: Sandy Silva
Composer / Sound: Sandy Silva, Jean Fréchette
Company: Migration Dance Film Productions

OFFERING creates a meaningful and joyful convergence between the Migration Dance Film Project’s body percussion artists and emerging artists from dance (gigue, contemporary, street) and circus arts.

YN Y GOLAU (IN-VISIBLE LIGHT)

2023 | UK | 12’25”
Directors: Kate Lawrence, Joanna Wright
Choreographer: Kate Lawrence
Composer / Sound: Alex Ashcroft
Company: Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence

Experimental Vertical Dance film, following two dancers on a journey through natural light phenomena.

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