Join Miami Light Project and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2023 Open Call Official Selections, featuring short films from Miami and beyond. ScreenDance Miami is an international dance-on-film festival featuring choreographers and directors who are working with emerging and new concepts with movement and dance on film and dance on camera.
Open Call Official Selections | Schedule
1–2:30pm | Program 1: Open Call Official Selections
ScreenDance Miami 2023 Festival Trailer
Play Where We’re Going (2019, 3 min, FL Premiere)
Dir. Heidi Duckler and Katherine Helen Fisher, Chor. Heidi Duckler
Filmed on the rooftop of the historic Bendix Building in Downtown Los Angeles where HDD has its offices, Where We’re Going is choreographed by Heidi Duckler and performed by HDD dancers, staff, and several workers from the building. This work explores a sense of belonging and how we define family.
Liquid Path (2013, 4 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Mena Rusciano
Wore the dress of courage, the migrant’s hope floats restlessly in the sea as a crammed message in a bottle that runs on uncertain trajectories.
Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film (2022, 13 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. Vanessa Sanchez, Dir. Vanessa Sanchez and John Jota Leanos
Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film explores the history of labor in the US–Mexico borderlands through Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho, Afro-Caribbean movement, and music. This work brings together polyrhythmic movement and an original score to examine labor and the power and joy of collective resistance.
NYX (2021, 4 min)
Chor. and Dir. Miami Movement Collective: Enrique Villacreses, Maya Billig, Cecilia Benitez and Natalia Marie Rocamonde
NYX explores an inter-dimensional encounter between wandering entities. Through missed connections and crossing paths, the wanderers find themselves individually traveling through a sacred location hoping to encounter a greater purpose for their explorations. Using their curiosity and freedom, they discover that their journeys are interwoven across separate dimensions of space and time.
Skyscrapers – Skin Deep (2020, 3 min, US Premiere)
Chor. Faizah Grootens, Dir. Ayra Kip, David van Delden
KIPrepublic presents an original poem (the Legendary Black Ice) and an interpretive dance, choreographed and performed by Faizah Grootens. Skindeep expresses one’s daily battle to turn noise inside one’s head into music, screeching voices into a choir, emotional clumsiness into dance, and the paradox of this repetitive loop in search for belonging.
Seers (2021, 3 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. Faith Morrison, Dir. Robert Uehlin
Featuring original choreography from Faith Morrison and music from Michael Wall, Seers is a screendance exploring the feeling of a desert ecosystem and the frantic stillness of its inhabitants.
One Shilling (2022, 5 min, US Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Monica Nicolaides
One Shilling is a short dance film, inspired by true encounters of people in WWII; where 4 strangers from different backgrounds came together to enjoy a night out, in one of the underground places in London during the Blitz.
In-Visible (2021, 8 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Jesse Obremski
Stemming from the AAPI hate crimes and initiating the development of Obremski/Works’s AAPI Support Fellowships, In-Visible touches on the common experience of AAPI individuals and feeling unheard, unrecognized, and unseen. Through this incredibly personal work, the full AAPI cast brings in experience, concepts, ideologies, trauma, and more to deepen this work.
OPEN DOOR/SECOND DOOR (2021, 3 min, US Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Flakorojas
After a long period of waiting, the doors finally open, but whoever was behind them no longer knows how to get out. Again, and again he approaches the edge, the boundary between the enclosure and the outside world, while an inquisitive clock records the moments.
I AM NOT OK (2022, 12 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. Gabrielle Lansner, Pat Hall, Dahsir Hausif, Dir. Gabrielle Lansner
A mother and son respond to the unending killings of Black Americans amidst the backdrop of the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Dance and archival photographs are woven together to evoke fear, outrage, and anger and the need for communities to come together and find solutions.
Q&A to follow the program.
3–4:30pm | Program 2: Open Call Official Selections
ScreenDance Miami 2023 Festival Trailer
La Galerie (2021, 11 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. Dir. Loup-William Theberge
During a nighttime visit to a museum, an unforeseen connection between a woman and a painting triggers an unexpected journey between the real and the unreal.
Further III (2020, 8 min, World Premiere)
Chor. Hanna Kahrola, Dir. Mia Tiihonen
A ScreenDance film about getting further, oncoming challenges, and an individual’s relationship to an environment that humanity has left behind. It is inspired by the everyday life superheroes, the elements stuck in a person, and the challenge of standing on their feet.
Calling Me (2021, 5 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Kerine Jean-Pierre
“Black Women can be soft too.” Calling Me is a short dance film about women of color owning a small piece of Heaven on Earth. These women are limitless and free from any intimidation or struggles. Just like the Sun, their truest essence peaks through collectively highlighting each beauty without comparison.
Rock (2022, 3 min)
Chor. & Dir. Amanda Whitworth, Vivian Beer, Christina Pitsch
Offered as a live performance or video installation, Rock is an exercise in feeling, sensing, and watching risk. Weight, energy, and time are shared between objects and humans to provoke feelings of uneasiness or awe in viewers.
Gliff (2021, 4 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. Anya Cloud, Eric Geiger, Dir. Rebecca Salzer
Gliff is a weaving of time and place and sound and bodies. Initiated six years ago in Alabama, the work reflects how our individual volumes of change, grief, and love intersect. The choreography was made first and the music was made last, with many layers of composition and dialogue in between.
In Capsule (2021, 10 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. and Dir. Chelsea Ainsworth, Jessica Smith
In Capsule is a short dance film exploring the concepts of reality and perception. The film follows two women who are stuck in man-made, monochrome boxes, searching for meaning in the confines of their prescribed spaces.
Inner Bloom (2021, 6 min, US Premiere)
Chor. Stephanie D. Handjiiska, Dir. Kosta Karakashyan
A young female protagonist unexpectedly encounters her own sexuality and passes through stages of unrestrained pleasure, shame, purification, and acceptance of her own female divinity.
Face the Fear (2021, 2 min, World Premiere)
Chor. Michelle Stone, Dir. Claudia Calle
This is a dance performance dedicated to one of the most obstructing feelings in life—”fear.” The action to face it and dance it out will bring liberation, feelings of freedom, and powerful self-awareness.
Bronx Magic (2022, 5 min, FL Premiere)
Chor. & Dir. Marta Renzi
The everyday magic of dance is everywhere in a Bronx neighborhood. Near the ice cream truck, under the elevated train, and at the subway station, everybody becomes part of the daily dance.
Q&A to follow the program.
