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CANNIBALIZING THE CONDUCTOR, 30min., Austria/Germany, Documentary
Directed by Derek Howard, Emma W. Howes, Justin F Kennedy
Cannibalizing the Conductor is a hybrid film that combines dance with narrative and documentary filmmaking techniques to encourage deep observation of trance. Upheld for an extended duration, a group of performers improvise in various lucid
states that are altered by imaginative, movement and vocal-based tasks. Each performer moves and is moved by the camera. Interacting with each other and the camera itself, they engage with the filmic gaze to celebrate their own agency, while disrupting the monocular focus of the camera lens. They get out of their own way to channel newly uncovered knowledge through the forms of music, dance, sound, and ultimately the eye of the camera.

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AND THE COMMUNITY WILL RISE, 63min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Lenora Lee

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RECONSTRUCTION, 17min., Finland, Experimental
Directed by Pia Andell
A short dance film reconstructs a night in the 80’s when Pia, the protagonist, was 17 and the rules of the world were somewhat different.

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CULTIVATE, 5min., UK, Dance
Directed by Sima Gonsai
Two dancers ground themselves in soil and ritual as they dance a duet with the earth. Drawing on the success of the 2021 dance film ‘And Breathe’ inspired by the newly introduced Clean Air Zone in Birmingham, ‘Cultivate’ responds to localised climate research about soil health focusing on soil toxic inheritance, farming practices and soil preservation. Told through combining South Asian dance and film, ‘Cultivate' highlights the human interconnectivity of soil and celebrates soil ecosystems.

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