Short Films Programme 5: Strata

Short Films Programme 5: Strata screens as part of a double event, directly after In Conversation with Siobhan Davies. Tickets include entry to both events.

PESO PIUMA COLLECTIVE

2023 | Italy | 4’33”
Director: Matteo Maffesanti
Choreographer: Silvia Gribaudi
Composer / Sound: Davide Pachera
Company: BTT - Balletto Teatro di Torino

A physical practice of duration that enacts an empathic ritual starting from an individual dimension and transporting performers and audience to a collective dimension.

CASSANDRA’S FIELD OF FLOWERS

2023 | Japan | 12’01”
Director / Choreographer / Sound: Tomo Sone
AR art: Akane
Company: Tomo Sone Dance Projects

In this durational installation – performance attempts to fuse contemporary dance with digital technology, AR, in a traditional Japanese Noh theater, where the audience spins their own story by using AR.

XĪN NĪ 廖芯妮

2022 | Canada | 7’26”
Director / Choreographer: Jasmine Liaw
Sound: Dino Hajdarovac
Company: RT Collective in association with Toronto Dance Theatre

An auto-ethnographical moving-portrait where a dancer’s movement is made up of her family’s ancestral artifacts, and responds to a recorded inter-generational conversation with her father.

MY LIFE AS A DANCER? – CHAPTER 2

2021 | Hong Kong | 2’36”
Director: Yik Chit Tsui
Choreographer / Sound: Ivy Tsui
College / University: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

As a dancer, Ivy Tsui has been dancing almost all her life. What is left without dancing? What constitutes life? What is time in life?

TRANSPARENT

2022 | UK | 35’
Director / Choreographer: Siobhan Davies
Created in collaboration with David Hinton and Hugo Glendinning
Sound: Chu-LIi Shewring, Stefan Smith
Company: Siobhan Davies Studio

A gentle manifesto and a visionary work of art itself. At the heart of this experimental documentary are the refl ections of dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies as she unravels the complex processes that underpin a life’s work in dance.

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