Join us for our annual showcase of films by Bay Area artists, with new work from established dancers and filmmakers and by newcomers venturing behind the camera for the first time.
Viewing Details: This digital screening is available to stream between 12:00 pm Sunday, October 18 and 11:59 pm Sunday, October 25. Suggested Viewing Time: Sunday, October 25 at 7:00 pm. Co-Presenter: Dancers’ Group
During a time of isolation and restraint, the need for human connection has only grown stronger. Technology can only bring us so close, but nothing can compare to physical touch.
GOLDEN is a wordless screen-dance in which a woman discovers, after years of domestic life, that her independence, intellectual curiosity, and sexual vibrancy are as powerful as ever. In dream-like sequences, she encounters the self she has been and the self that she can become.
Shot in Pacifica, Calif., to the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, Pacifica is a short film of 8 dancers exploring community-centered movement, emotive expression, and the spiritual elements of dance.
“Another Sky” follows one woman’s journey from static confinement to life more momentous. Floating between the feminine nature and the manufactured environment, “Another Sky” explores fluidity and restrictions using choreography and the visual frame.
A beautiful girl goes to work in her beautiful outfit and high heels working for hours and hours until she gets overwhelmed by paperwork and falls asleep on it. She dreams of being in a gorgeous green environment where all she has is the freedom to move freely and joy herself.
Lotus Dickey wrote The Storm, adapted and arranged here by Evie Ladin for her all-female Body Music Moving Choir – MoToR/dance. Filmed and edited by Chafic Saad & Kris Lee of Kind Motion at the Albany Bulb, California – a public land rich with folk art and abandoned ad repurposed spaces.
Oakland, California natives KrowtheGod and SnooptheShooter collaborate with a fellow Bay Area native and dancer @dooli-J. The trio masterfully creates Contention, an emotion-stirring production that details struggle.
Algerion “KrowtheGod” Bryant II , La Ron “SnooptheShooter” Gardner
Directed, filmed, and performed by Connor Alhart, “Lovely” is an experimental film that uses modern dance techniques and elements of contact improvisation. The film tells a simple story of what it feels like to look into the mirror can not recognize the person looking back.
Choreographer laura e. ellis in collaboration with the artists of Dimensions Dance Theater and MIJIS Productions; exploring through body memory and physical expression: resilience, grief, loss, hope in being… black, woman, mother, child.