Best of DANCE Film Festival
23m
The Broken Cycle, 3min., Hong Kong
Directed by Andreas Guzman
An endless cycle. A dance of stagnation. A relationship's rhythm, caught in a relentless tide, is about to break.
https://www.andreasguzman.com/work/remy
https://www.instagram.com/bouncing_bagel/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-broken-cycle
Melbourne Hopak, 10min., Australia
Directed by Melanie Anna Moravski Dechnicz
Melbourne Hopak is part of the Lehenda Film series. The origins of Lehenda’s film series can be traced back to the global Covid-19 lockdowns—a time when theatres were dark, stages silent, and traditional forms of cultural expression temporarily out of reach. Faced with the absence of live performance, we turned to film as a new medium to preserve and express our identity as Australian Ukrainians.
https://www.instagram.com/lehendaukrainiandancecompany/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-melbourne-hopak
Corps Liquide, 11min., Canada
Directed by Amandine Garrido, Matthew Gaines
Liquid Bodies is a sensory and immersive dance film that explores the vital connection between humans and water. Carried by the dance of a contemporary performer, the film evokes the major stages of existence — from gestation to metamorphosis — in resonance with the different phases of the water cycle: liquid, vapor, rain. Filmed in dreamlike aquatic environments, this poetic work merges movement and cinema to reveal the beauty, power, fragility, and constant presence of water in our bodies and lives. An intimate, universal of life in motion.
https://www.instagram.com/amandinepaulina/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-corps-liquide