song of songs (USA,18 mins)

Douglas Rosenberg

World Premiere

Song of Songs is a deeply personal evocation of the erotic prose poem of the same name that appears in the Old Testament. Shot in black and white with an original cello score, it evokes a cinematic space that is contemplative and austere. Song of Songs turns ritual to art to performance; to be enchanted, enveloped and wrapped in the sublime, the imagined and the familiar.

the room (SPAIN, 4 mins)

Laida Aldaz Arrieta

Confined in a room. Where routine becomes infinite habit for the body, space becomes for the soul a gateway to enter, or to exit...

second warning (USA, 4mins)

marcus white

European PrEmiere

In memory of Marcus White, May 17, 1988 - May 14, 2020

Marcus created this dance film for the 2017 Moving 24 fps, which he co-founded and directed with Carlos Funn. This event brought together choreographers, dancers, filmmakers and editors, with the objective of making a dance film in one weekend in Detroit. 

Special thanks to Screen Dance International, Detroit.

resilience (MEXICO, 4 mins)

Diana Morales Sánchez

European PrEmiere

In January 2020 we did not know that we were going to spend more than half a year without seeing each other in the same space. "Resilience" is the last video dance work we did in the pre-pandemic times.
In collaboration with "El búho", an English musician, we explored the complicity, mutual inspiration and trust in the paths of each of the members of the project.

regained bathers (FRANCE, 13 mins)

LUDIVINE LARGE-BESSETTE

UK PrEmiere

Through the theme of the bather, the artist plays in this movie with the traditional representation of the female nude, freely inspired by the painting «Trois femmes et une petite fille jouant dans l’eau» by Felix Vallotton. By a collaborative approach with women dancers, it is a process of reappropriation of the female body by the movement, where the model becomes full-fledged actor of what she chooses to give

Muffler 마후 (S. KOREA,10 mins)

joowon song

WORLD PrEmiere

Joowon Song who featured in the 2019 Festival will present the World Premiere of 마후라 Mufffler, part of an ongoing series recording the physical and cultural disappearance of neighbourhood communities to redevelopment.

마후Muffler explores the process of this disappearance and gives meaning to the animation of mechanical, redundant objects. It is based on Jang an-pyeong, an area of Seoul dedicated to Korea's automobile industry. This area has been known since 1970, for its used car lots and the sale of all types of car and van components. It is a place of deep history for the Korean automobile industry.

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.