Bot Girl Gone
Keisha Grant, Finbar Somers
UK
Bot Girl Gone is a compelling dance film that unwraps the dehumanisation caused by trolling and cyberbullying. Focussing through an emotional lens, the portrayal explores our response to technological worlds, reality, illusions and money.
Artistic Direction and Performance By Keisha Grant
Film Maker and Post Production By Finbar Somers
Blind Dreamers [•32°N 145°W•]
Sandra Geco
SPAIN
A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveals a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry.
We discover a couple looking like René Magritte's lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag.
In research of sensitivity, this video fable question our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it.
We are this living being caught in a trap: how could we forget about it?
WELL
Wei Jiang
CHINA
Dancing with Dementia
Elaine Harvey
UK
Dancing with Dementia is a short dance film which aims to animate and reimagine the metaphorical discourse around dementia by asking people affected by the condition to conceive of it as a dance. Comprised entirely of archived footage of social dancing in early-mid twentieth century UK, the film has been cut and re-combined to create a rhythmic and gestural choreography which is reflective of dementia as a social, relational and embodied phenomenon.
(UN) SEEN
Anjana Ghonasgi
INDIA
Tethered between her own worlds of captivity and escapism, Maya finds herself.'
Our relationship with time will remain an unsolved mystery. Some days it is moving too fast, on some other days too slow but on most days it is passing by like clockwork. And TIME is the most manipulative when spent alone.
This film reflects my journey with mental health. We are perpetually told to seek the light at the end of the tunnel, but nobody seems to know how. Is there even a light at the end?
Rite of Passage
Olivia Griselda
Indonesia
A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on body, space and the present moment.
The film was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory VI: Solo in Studio Plesungan, an art space run by Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo in the northern part of Solo, Indonesia.
Battle Of Fishes
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
GREECE
Six female bodies are suspended in space; they detect, meet and touch, dancing a light dance. Stop motion creates the illusion of the bodies' oscillation in the air, in an attempt to capture deviation and resistance to gravity. Battle of Fishes is an assemblage of snapshots, dislocated maps, technologies and bodies, rhythms and broken locations.
walls
Dani Cobarrubias, Carmen Porras
spain
Father and son. Secrets and unacknowledged grudges separate them. A wall that guards silence, withheld tears, glances and contact. The lack of communication.
In spite of these, the desire to embrace everything because they are the same story.
