ALL SHE LIKES IS POPPING Bubble Wrap (greece, 18 mins)

IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU

uk PrEmiere

The screen is split in two. One side shows a montage of archival film images: three girls fishing at a lake, a zombie chase scene, a woman in the bath. The other side shows the performer in dialog with the images: using various material resources and/or her own body to devise, create, and produce a new soundtrack to accompany them, thus orchestrating the images aurally and bringing them to life.

Supported by the Onassis Cultural Centre

YOU WANTED RIVERS (poland, 7mins)

MAGDALENA ZIELIŃSKA

uk PrEmiere

We are never getting what we want. We are never happy with what we get. ‘You Wanted Rivers’ is a dance film about desires that wear us down, that make us follow risky paths and that keep us forever thirsty and forever blind.

MEMORY FRAME (italy, 8 mins)

Alessandro Amaducci

uk PrEmiere

Body and architecture build frames of memory. Until the end.

Cortège (Belgium, 7 mins)

Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern

uk PrEmiere

Cortège is a meditation on departures, reflecting on both the desire for self-emancipation and the weight we carry from those no longer with us. Accompanied by a powerful arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s Pavane Pour Une Infant Défunte, Cortège follows eleven performers who ascend the stunning interior of architect Zaha Hadid’s famous Havenhuis. Collaboratively choreographed by the performers and directed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Cortège is a pondering of aesthetic and a contemplation on separation.

CHÁ SĪ CHASM (usa, 4 mins)

WAELI WANG

uk PrEmiere

Screendance in collaboration with Katie Huang and Samantha Lin exploring duality, transcontinental passage, and fragmented identities. Self-reflection in questioning pluralistic panethnicity comes through the visual, movement, and sonic landscape. Digital.

TOKE (UK, 7 mins)

Nono Ayuso

london PrEmiere

Set in the urban metropolis of London, Toke, is an intimate portrait of Danish-born dancer Toke Broni Strandby. Director NONO -Nono Ayuso- expertly visualizes the emotionally layered journey we endure to fulfill our dreams while exploring themes of identity, contemporary alienation, and acceptance. An inspiring story about triumph, Toke, is a celebration of the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.

birds (France, 9 mins)

John DEgois

Birds is a short digital choreographic piece imagined thought directed by John Degois. With this piece he tries to transpose live performance into film. He thus chooses to make a sequence shot in order to keep the notion of "live", slow motion to allow the spectator to have time to watch where he wants. He also breaks the perspective by not necessarily centering the main action in the middle of the image. Against a background of melancholy, Birds evokes a time when the question of freedom did not arise.

John Degois’ film Focus was presented at London International Screen Dance Festival 2019.