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EARTHLOVE short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival (interview)
EARTHLOVE, 6min., Sweden
Directed by Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen
EarthLove is a poetic music/dance film with 6 dancers, filmed in the city of Malmö, south of Sweden. "There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Eart... -
TAKE YOUR ZEN film, reactions Dance Festival
TAKE YOUR ZEN, 1min., USA
Directed by Travon Trammell
A talented ballerina uses her headphones to escape and find her voice as a performer.
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FR:AGILITY film, reactions Dance Festival (interview)
FR:AGILITY, 8min., Singapore
Directed by Amanda Tan
The film lenses the body and its form as sculpture; its undulating curves and slopes as landscape; and the skin we live in and shed as texture.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
I was motivated by the desire...
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YOU ARE SO CLOSE short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)
YOU ARE SO CLOSE, 5min., UK
Directed by Craig McNulty
Short experimental film follows a woman seemingly trapped in a derelict art gallery repeatedly viewing images and gradually becoming more frustrated. Unable to leave, and refusing the offer of help.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motiva...
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CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - BAÑO MARÍA short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - BAÑO MARÍA, 10min., USA
Directed by Brian Kazez
A full day of touring and lows through Buenos Aires. There's weed, pills, alcohol, and various moods. Euphoria, dancing, public bathrooms, afters, another after, fights, kisses, another after, more touring, more lows, halluc... -
REFLECTION film, reactions Dance Festival
REFLECTION, 9min., Canada
Directed by Zav Jenabian
On competition day, a tireless ballet dancer grappling with the recent loss of her father, runs into her love interest. To her, love is a mere escapist fantasy so when her feelings are exposed, the continuation of her fantasy is put into question. -
A MOVEMENT DEEPER THAN DANCING film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival (interview)
A MOVEMENT DEEPER THAN DANCING, 2min., France
Directed by Katya Mokoto
https://www.kitsuney.com/
Get to know the filmmaker:1. What motivated you to make this film?
It was a spur of the moment decision, we met through a mutual friend whom was convinced that we could do cool things together a... -
QUARCE UPON A TIME film, reactions Dance Festival
QUARCE UPON A TIME, 14min., Italy
Directed by Tommy Pascal
She never cries. She never smiles. She never dies. After centuries buried under the ground, Christina lives again. And what if she would tell her story herself this time ?
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BLOSSOM OF CHOICE short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
BLOSSOM OF CHOICE, 7min., USA
Directed by Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen
Blossom of Choice is an experimental short film as an offering of healing through self-reflection and presence and as a reminder of the way of life and nature: constant change. The main character encounters a transformative path when t... -
BUTTERFLY'S BAQA film, reactions Dance Festival (interview)
BUTTERFLY'S BAQA, 6min., USA
Directed by Abby London, Mariam-Saba Ahmad
This heart-opening dance film Butterfly’s Baqa invites the viewer to drop into their heart and open to an experience of meaningful beauty. Dancers Mariam-Saba Ahmad and Antonio Samayoa move through a European traditional danc... -
LUNGS short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
LUNGS, 20min., UK
Directed by Adrianna Ewa Polcyn
This is a tale about a young woman driven to the edge of heartbreak, who is visited by a ghoul in her sleep and awakens in the mythic woods. Being thrown into swirling turmoil of her own soul, she flounders through the forest in search of truth, f... -
SUNLIGHT DANCE film, reactions Dance Festival
SUNLIGHT DANCE, 4min,. USA
Directed by Kendra Moore
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STRANGE FRUIT: The Hip-Hopera Short Film "Hear the Cry", reactions Dance Fest
STRANGE FRUIT: The Hip-Hopera Short Film "Hear the Cry", 8min., USA
Directed by Marlon Jones, Dyneesha Moore
Imagine a powerful Black woman in the 21st century being thrust back into the 1800s Antebellum South as a slave with only one chance to escape back to her reality. This is the story of LaS... -
YOU DON'T KNOW ME short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival
YOU DON'T KNOW ME, 4min., Puerto Rico
Directed by Coco Bigles
Cat Serrano's debut single "You Don't Know Me" is about finding the self respect need to end a relationship. Director Coco Bigles interprets this as a dynamic story.
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HEART WORN OUT & AGAINST THE WALL, reactions MUSIC Film Festival (interview)
HEART WORN OUT & AGAINST THE WALL, 6min., Romania
Directed by Izabella Sandra Alda, Ovidiu Claudiu Moldovan
This short “Heart Worn Out & Against The Wall” is a short movie about loneliness and fear. Fear of losing a loved one, of being superficial, of being unlovable. About the struggles of filli... -
STILL film, reactions Dance Festival
STILL, 6min., Peru
Directed by Elías Mujica Checa, Verónica Garrido Lecca, Maria Angela Talavera Tejeda
Six women attempt to move forward as a collective, but their journey seems to bring them back to their starting point. They face a challenge to break free from this state of stagnation, which l... -
THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON, 3min., Spain
Directed by Manuel Fernández Ferro
The Lovers of Avignon" is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.
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AWAITING WONDER short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival (interview)
AWAITING WONDER, 12min., Cyprus
Directed by Eleana Theophilou
A poetic exploration of a love story, of a widower that is going through the lonely journey of coming to terms with the sudden loss of his wife.Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
The core of the in...
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DUNES short film, reactions EXPERIMENTAL Festival
DUNES, 10min., France
Directed by Virginie Kahn
It could be a Harlem theater in the fifties. Two strangers share the same emotion while watching a movie. The cinema exit door opens onto an imaginary desert where they will meet, -
THE SEED short film, reactions MUSIC Film Festival
THE SEED, 3min., Spain
Directed by Màriam Zelaia
The artist Sandra Sangiao is gestated in an earthen incubator to end up being born brighter than ever and captivate us with her sweet and powerful voice
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GODDESS OF SPRING & DEATH film, reactions Dance Festival
GODDESS OF SPRING & DEATH, 8min., USA
Directed by Jessa M. Wright
A retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth, focusing on Persephone's personal freedom told through the medium of ballet.
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LGBTQ+ Festival Shorts - May 11/12 event
See the Full Lineup of Films:
MY FIRST TIME - COMING OUT, 20min., Australia
Directed by Carolyn Cage
Made for queer people and their allies, 'My First Time' takes an unfiltered and heartfelt look at unforgettable first universal queer experiences from members from Australia’s LGBTQ+ community.
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LGBTQ+ Fest 1st Scene: My Name is Jonas, by Cory David Bortnicker (interview)
A young gay songwriter in the grip of meth addiction must face his past when he learns he is actually a prophet who must save New York City from Judgement Day.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Mayor Bloomberg: Steve Rizzo
Officer: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screen...
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: REKINDLING, by Suzanna Scorcia (interview)
A Six Episode Web Series: When high school sweethearts Gwen and James cross paths 4 years following the mutual termination of their relationship, both individuals happily take a chance on revitalizing their young love, with the inevitable obstacles of statistics, past traumas, and fresh wounds wo...