FESTIVAL AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEOS

FESTIVAL AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEOS

2021 film festival audience feedback videos.

FESTIVAL AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEOS
  • YOURS short film, DANCE Festival film review

    YOURS, 9min., UK
    Directed by Flaminia Graziadei
    The body of a dying old woman lies in a bed in stillness, while her soul is dancing on the magic stage she dreamt to be all her life. The blinding lights and the clapping of an imaginary audience, accompany her to the final curtain call. In this poe...

  • STIGMA short film, DANCE Festival film review

    STIGMA, 8min., Canada
    Directed by Reilly Michael Saso
    Confronted with a devastating diagnosis, stigmatized and shrouded in despair, a young man desperately grapples with the dark specter of mortality and societal rejection in his tender teenage years. Thirty years on, he reflects on his extraordi...

  • NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES short film, DANCE Festival film review

    NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES, 20min., USA
    Directed by Laura Perdrizet
    “we are the dream the city is having about itself.” ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” Nomadic Mythologies is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, ...

  • EAT YOUR YOUNG short film, DANCE Festival film review

    EAT YOUR YOUNG, 4min., USA
    Directed by LaKesha Sowell

    https://instagram.com/iam.lakesha

  • THE BREATH, THE FIRE short film, DANCE Festival film review

    THE BREATH, THE FIRE, 9min., New Zealand
    Directed by Kelly Nash, Nancy Wijohn
    Two M?ori dancers engage in the abstract circling's of 'Te H?, Te K?" the breath and the fire, seen here as many fangled creatures who whip around the various landscapes of Aotearoa, NZ together.

    http://www.bodyisland...

  • cor·re·spond·ence short film, DANCE Festival film review

    cor·re·spond·ence, 20min., USA
    Directed by Akwi Nji
    cor·re·spond·ence is a hypnotic exploration of our human quest for connection, intimacy, and the elusive sense of geographical and spiritual home. Drawing inspiration from transatlantic letters exchanged between a Cameroon-based father and his U...

  • WEST WIND short film, DANCE Festival film review

    WEST WIND, 9min., New Zealand
    Directed by Kelly Nash
    The movement is influenced by Butoh, a practice that among many things can be viewed as a turn away from the Western styles of dance, ballet and modern, to create an aesthetic that embraces an earthbound physique and natural movements.

    http:...

  • YOU CAN'T DO A THING short film, DANCE Festival film review

    YOU CAN'T DO A THING, 4min., Singapore
    Directed by Taufiq Amaran, Genevieve Ho
    We scrutinise and curate how we move through the world for fear of the undesirable and unpredictable in ourselves surfacing. But when we repeatedly recognise this fear as part of ourselves do we shed the instinct to ov...

  • LIKE A DUET short film, DANCE Festival film review

    LIKE A DUET, 9min., Israel
    Directed by Roy Sahar
    The story of a man taken captive, tortured, and imprisoned in solitary confinement, not knowing if or when he will be released — and his wife, who is left at home, their only connection being through letters. Can love survive without seeing, hearin...

  • OPTING TO BE PULLED short film, DANCE Festival film review

    OPTING TO BE PULLED, 5min. USA
    Directed by Emilie Silvestri
    Inspired by Alex Katz's five-panel painting "Pas de Deux", Opting To Be Pulled explores the push, pulls, and patterns of the five posed couples featured in the Katz source material, interpreted and expanded upon by the choreography of Co...

  • THE DISTANCE short film, DANCE Festival film review

    THE DISTANCE, 3min,. USA
    Directed by Zoran Prodanovic
    "The Distance" is a 3-min knockout film collaboration between Choreographer Marisa f. Ballaro and Cinematographer Zoran Prodanovic. "The Distance" film was "Round 8" in the live dance production of the same name produced by Ballaro Dance at Th...

  • IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL short film, Experimental Festival film review

    IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL, 16min., Sweden
    Directed by Hans Appelqvist
    A furry TV host, an opera diva, and a music expert come together to answer the simple yet impossible question about the origin of music.

    http://sifantin.net/
    https://www.instagram.com/hansappelqvist/

  • EPICYCLE short film, Experimental Festival film review

    EPICYCLE, 7min., Canada
    Directed by Deb Ethier
    A surreal experimental animated allegory of the cyclical rise, fall and evolution of social order.

    https://rustybolttheatre.zyrosite.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/rustybolttheatre/

  • PAINFUL FLAVOURS short film, Experimental Festival film review

    PAINFUL FLAVOURS, 22min., UK
    Directed by Julian Hand
    There was no plan. I found some pages I had written over twenty years ago. I read the words whilst Oli and Joe slipped deep into an improvised, ambient jam - a cognisant, responsive soundscape conjured up to bring the prose to life. It was all ...

  • HUMUS short film, Experimental Festival film review

    HUMUS, 15min,. France
    Directed by Claire-Marie REOT, Amaury REOT
    With the application of clay to the body we are witnessing a ritual of acceptance. To let go absorbed by te matter, and lose your stigmata to be reborn more humble, harmonized.

    https://soulmagnet.fr/
    https://www.facebook.com/SoulM...

  • Inclusion: The Story of the Americans with Disabilities Act short film review

    Inclusion: The Story of the Americans with Disabilities Act
    Directed by Shelly Simmons
    Lack of accommodation in buildings and streets is challenging for persons with disabilities; lack of awareness on the part of society, more so. Thirty years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities ...

  • Lil' RED is RIDING the wrong way in the HOOD! short ffilm, fiilm review

    Lil' RED is RIDING the wrong way in the HOOD!, 8min., USA
    Directed by Venus Jones
    This short film with a long title is a Hip Hop twist on a classic cautionary tale starts with an adventurous little boy getting lost on the wrong side of town. Childhood labor and public safety may sound like heavy ...

  • BIRDIE short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    BIRDIE, 1min,. Ireland
    Directed by Declan Davis
    Birdie is a story of a bird overcoming her fear of flying for the first time.

  • MAJDRESCHER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    MAJDRESCHER, 3min., France
    Directed by Antoine Gandubert
    This film crew was initially filming a TV add for a Tractor... but the shoot went wrong.

  • A TACO short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    A TACO, 2min., Mexico
    Directed by Antonio Rotunno
    A young man walks through the streets of the city when a beggar child asks him for help to eat, will he help him or pass him by?

    https://www.instagram.com/antoniorotunnofilmmaker/

  • THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS, 4min., USA
    Directed by Jesus Zaldivar
    Murals and graffiti became a certain feature of urban landscapes everywhere. New York City is one of them.

  • INTERLUDE short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    INTERLUDE, 1min., USA
    Directed by Silvia A Malagrino
    A poetic response to the inner experience of the passage of time.
    [email protected]

    https://www.silviamalagrino.com/

  • STRANGER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    STRANGER, 5min., USA
    Directed by Julia Hayden Fung
    This film shows the experience of lost relationships through the eyes of a young girl. "Stranger" is a story of love, longing, and the regret through passing of time.

    https://www.instagram.com/jhf.ilms/

  • ILLUSION short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    ILLUSION, 5min., Poland
    Directed by Jacek J?drzejczak
    Illusion - distorted interpretation of existing external stimuli. They also occur in healthy people and is not a psychopathological symptom.