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Therese Pasquesi
corps minéral
Charline Dally & Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin
Montréal, Canada | 2021 | 5 | Digital File
corps minéral proposes an introspective experience inspired by geological transformations and layers of memory, whether they are contained in the rock or in our cells.
Decay
Arseny Bezrukov
St. Petersburg, Russia / Beaconsfield, UK | 2022 | 12 | DCP
World Premiere
Three presentable young people in complicated relationships went to a villa deep in the forest on a winter night, experiencing frustration, anger, and loathing, but still, a strange desire to get closer, which will never be satisfied.
Neighbour Abdi
Douwe Dijkstra
Zwolle, Netherlands | 2022 | 29 | DCP
North American Premiere
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor, the filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.
Bird in the Peninsula
Atsushi Wada
Tokyo, Japan | 2022 | 16 | DCP
Children are dancing to music under the supervision of their teacher. A young lady witnesses the scene and disrupts their rituals.
A wind grazes your door
Jorge Castrillo & Pablo Paloma
Iznájar, Spain | 2021 | 8 | DCP
An approach to the liturgy of an Andalusian village through a delirium of images impregnated on celluloid. In A wind grazes your door, tradition mixes with the songs and voices of the past and present, which begin to rise from the earth like little dusty reminders, speaking of a violence perhaps premonitory, perhaps forgotten.
Syzygy
Joanna McNamara
Detroit, MI | 2019 | 3 | Digital File
A crisscross of people and machines in time. This dance film grew out of a curiosity about work spaces, the tasks therein, and the consequential mechanization of humans. I discovered this cold storage warehouse in Detroit. We rehearsed on location and in a dance studio, then filmed it in two days.