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11:30AM: FILM SCREENING
/ SHORTS III /
RELÂCHE: THE LAST DANCE ON EARTH
Direction: Kelly Jane Drummond Cawthon
(19:38 | Australia, 2025)
From an island at the end of the earth comes an experimental homage to the 1924 René Clair short film Entr'acte, originally created for Erik Satie’s Dadaist ballet Relâche.
Relâche - The Last Dance on Earth was devised by Second Echo Ensemble (SEE), a Tasmanian arts organisation committed to radical equity, diversity, and visibility. The film was initially created as part of a performance work and blends absurdist themes with a bold exploration of life, mortality, and chaos. Shot on black-and-white 16mm film and hand-processed, this experimental work captures the spirit of early cinema, reimagined through the lens of contemporary Dadaism.
BEHIND THE SUN
Direction: Salma Kattass
(2:48 | USA, 2025)
Behind the Sun is a dreamlike meditation on acceptance and becoming. Through shifting presences and quiet absences, the film reflects on past selves, unseen influences, and the weight they leave behind. What once feels fragmented gradually resolves into clarity. The film embraces the idea that every experience carries purpose, and that understanding emerges only when we allow ourselves to accept where we are.
SOLUM | SOIL
Direction: Rob Kitsos, Meagan Woods, and Beau Han Bridge
(10:10 | Canada, 2025)
This work was created by Moving Matter, a collaborative research team developing methodologies for making. Each project includes many artists across dance, costumery, music and film who devote themselves to innovative modes of making that break habits of privileging human-centric design over more-than-human materials and the wellbeing of the planet. The team is interested in collaborating with raw materials as a way of developing new choreographic approaches, wearable designs, and material generation for screen dance, installation and performance - finding different ways that human-generated design might learn from the choreographic intelligence of our earth’s shifting materials.
AWAY FROM HOME
Direction: Joe Raffanti and Amy Saunder | Choreography: Tiffany Mangulabnan
(7:00 | USA, 2025)
In this no-dialog, movement-based short film, three characters interact with each other and with their own feelings of longing, disappointment, and love during a single night at a hotel.
Made as part of the CIRCADIA 24-hour Dance Film Festival in 2025, this film was produced by Nine Mile Productions (www.ninemile.productions). It was choreographed, shot and edited over the course of 24 hours with access to a premier hotel location in Brooklyn, NYC, and features classical and contemporary dancers and an original score by Alexis Gideon.
DON’T MEAN TO HURT YOU
Direction: André Abrantes
(3:03 | Portugal, 2025)
"Don't Mean to Hurt You" merges indie-pop songwriting with contemporary dance to create a visual meditation on vulnerability in relationships.
A dance film about the fear of being vulnerable and the courage it takes to show someone your authentic self. Through contemporary choreography and contact improvisation, two dancers navigate the journey from isolation to intimacy - exploring how real connection requires accepting all parts of each other, the light and the shadows.
SPECT(RE-)M
Direction: MK Ford
(9:47 | USA, 2025)
This ScreenDance activates queer imagination through the layered composition of movement, clothing, and fantasy. Themes explored are motifs of codes, gaze, euphoria, magical realism, and technologies of intervention. Implemented in this film are the disciplines of dance choreography and performance, green screen and animation, and cinematography + video editing.
FEIBO AMIDST FLOWERS, THE MAKING OF “BLOOMING LIFE”
Direction: Song Nailong
(13:29 | China, 2025)
A documentary about choreographer Fei Bo's creation of the dance drama "BLOOMING LIFE"
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/ APRIL 26 /
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