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FAREWELL, 5min., China, Dance
Directed by Ruo Wen Tian
Countless ordinary life experiences are buried deep in the dust.
In an old factory trapped in stilled time, I try to show how common folk constantly exist in an ever moving forward torrent of time, through the collision and contrast between the youth of young dancers and the antiquity of the machinery and environment, while also using the shoe that appears in the beginning and at the end to represent the memories of people who couldn’t keep up with the changes of the times.
LET OFF, 15min., Brazil, Dance
Directed by Igor Correa, Carlos Laerte
In the discomfort and misunderstanding of one's individuality, it is necessary to perceive oneself as lost in order to be found. The directors Carlos Laerte and Igor Corrêa question the existence, self-love and the process of liberation of someone who lives in trouble with himself and does not heal. The dancer actor Romec plays this character who transits between the exempt and the cognitive space, inspired by the sound of a classical viola played by the interpreter musician Willow Kohlrausch who also signs the film's score.
COUNT IT ALL, 7min., USA, Dance
Directed by Joshua Lamar Cleveland
“Count it all” is a film work that is meant to display the complicated spaces of interiority and safety that black bodies have often had to cultivate within themselves in response to institutional trauma and white systemic violence. It is a film that paints an image of various searchings around faith, self-worth, and redress that many black people were confronted with in the first year of the pandemic and in response to the Police killings of Ahmad Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others.
DISPLACED, 3min., Australia
Directed by Daniela Zambrano
The concept of this visual composition is to convey the audience into a parallel reality or dream state.
However, it is not about the romanticism of a dream, but rather a scenario of not wanting to wake up and return to a sad and painful reality. The dream is an escape from the reality of waking up without a home, the reality of feeling homeless, of not having your place in the world.
ALICE, 4min,. France
Directed by Dimo Milev
GHOSTLY LABOR, 13min., USA,
Directed by John Jota Leaños, Vanessa Sanchez
“Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film” explores the history of labor in the US–Mexico borderlands through Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho, Afro Caribbean movement, and live music. This work brings together polyrhythmic movement and an original score to look at the (ongoing) years of systemic exploitation of labor while highlighting the power and joy of collective resistance.