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FRIDAY
/ APRIL 24 /
7:00PM: FILM SCREENING
/OPENING NIGHT/
IS A THOUSAND TIMES ENOUGH
Direction: Grace David
(3:42 | DMV Artist, USA, 2021)
Is A Thousand Times Enough captures the feeling of being trapped in an emotion. It’s a question that is posed to both self and other. It speaks to a cycle. When is the wake up call? When is enough enough? And how am I here again? It feels stuck. It’s maddening. Over and over again.
DYAD
Direction: Katherine Helen Fisher | Choreography: Allysen Hooks
(6:26 | USA, 2025)
DYAD poetically explores the resilience and fragility of the human form set against the stark beauty of California's Mojave Desert towns. Directed by Katherine Helen Fisher with choreography by Allysen Hooks, the film follows two female dancers in evocative cycles of collision and symbiosis. Cinematographer Sinziana Velicescu emphasizes the aesthetics of emptiness and the disappearing sustainability of the landscape through minimalist visuals, sparse architecture, and expansive barren terrains. Meticulous editing and immersive sound design by John Walter, combined with Astrid Sonne’s tightly driven score, heighten the film's meditation on vulnerability and ephemerality. Through metaphors of mitosis, DYAD subtly reflects humanity’s impact on Earth's delicate ecosystems, offering a contemplative vision of connection and identity in the Anthropocene.
SHELTERING GESTURES
Direction: Adrián Villa-Dávila, Andrés Prado
(10:50 | Colombia, 2026)
“Sheltering Gestures” is a videodance that traces the ritual and spiritual movements revived by a group of young dancers who witnessed the gradual disappearance of the traditional Danza de las Tabliteras. Determined to bring it back to life, they learned its rhythms and choreography from the four remaining elders who still carried the dance in their bodies. Once again, these gestures echo the movements that decades ago filled the community of San Antonio, Bolívar, with pride, vitality, and collective spirit.
IN FLUORESCENCE
Direction: Dane Cree and Woodlin Latocki
(1:50 | USA, 2025)
Plants, roots, branches, leaves and the music ripple into a dance.
Graphite, fluorescent color pencil, ink, found aged paper and notecards built this rotoscoped performance. In a rapid-fire creative collaboration this choreography was the result.
ORGANISM
Direction and Choreography: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
(14:22 | DMV Artist, USA, 2025)
Set against the luminous architecture of Leith Symington Griswold Hall, 'Organism' explores the friction between our human essence and the accelerating pace of the modern world. Created in collaboration with The Peabody Dance Ensemble and featuring an original score by award-winning composer Dylan Glatthorn, the film unfolds as a kinetic dialogue between space, sound, and the moving body.
ON MENDING
Direction and Choreography: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern & Emilie Leriche (Choreography created in collaboration with Stephanie Amurao, Alexandria Clair, Miguel Duarte, and Dario Rigaglia)
(14:59 | Italy, 2021)
A reflection on the beauty and inevitability of impermanence, On Mending follows a community’s attempt to process overwhelming loss.
DREAM BABY DREAM
JAZZFEST COMMUNITY FILM LAB
Direction: Nadin Deventer, Andrés Aguiló, Lina Ashour, Frederik Britzlmair, Joel Grip, Andrés Hilarión, Chris Jonas, Nelly Köster, Cal Ola, Ahmed Shah
(21:10 | Germany, 2026)
60 Berlin community members including kids, teenagers and adults, professional and amateur artists from various disciplines, explore the inner and outer landscapes of music, movement, dreams and trauma through this 20min collaborative experimental film.
FOLLOW LIMINAL
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