Join Miami Light Project at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2025. This international dance-on-film festival features choreographers and directors working with emerging and new concepts with movement and dance on film and dance on camera. Official Selections will be screened at PAMM and include two programs of short films selected by the ScreenDance Miami Festival curator and panelists.
First Film Program
12pm
1-hour 5 minute with a brief conversation with the filmmakers
The Rooster (2023)
Rolly Dib, Chadi Younes
“In our neighborhood, lives a rooster. In our neighborhood, lives a sadist slaying rooster!” Based on Nizar Qabbani’s poem AL Deek (The Rooster), this dance film experiments with the Baladi form to portray the journey of a dictator’s rise to power and their inevitable downfall.
Batientes (2024)
Roxana Barba, Claudio Marcotulli
Batiente: part of the frame of a door, a window or something similar, where it stops and beats when it closes.
Immortellis (2023)
Bettina Szabo, Mark Durand
Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature.
Inter-Library Loan (2024)
Marta Renzi with Dancers
From quiet reading to rambunctious display, 15 members of the Rhode Island College Dance Company inhabit elegant spaces in the Providence Public Library.
Sameness: Magnificence (2023)
Jacqueline Cousineau, Alana Waksman
One woman: two worlds. How do they collide? A woman is stuck in a claustrophobic sameness. She is magnificently present. She finds her strength in the softness of air and light. It is between the push and pull of the two worlds that she can become herself.
M E S A (2023)
Syncopate Collective
Spellbound (2024)
Nicola Hepp
A woman walks slowly through a dark, untouched forest, following a figure she can’t quite see. Uncertain if she is being pursued, regret sets in as she realizes her desperate escape might have been a mistake. Approaching the point of no return, she is drawn into a dire decision.
Silencio (2024)
Cristina Candela
A dreamy encounter in New York´s high line over an Alegria’s silencio. As in traditional flamenco this is a dialogue between guitar and dance, adding the camera and the New Yorks’s horizon to the conversation.
SOURCE (2023)
Mike Tyus, Luca Renzi
Like the oceans of the world pumping water through the veins of the earth, the heart is the source of human life. It’s the symbol of love and courage. When we act from our hearts, we are connected to the source of life that is found in all things.
Second Film Program
3pm
Kankantri (2024)
Gabri Christa
In “Kankantri (The Silk Cotton Tree),” a woman is transported to the parallel universe of all her different ancestors where she dances and takes part in rituals until she feels whole.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Pioneer Winter (he/they, b. 1987) is a Miami-based choreographer and artistic director of Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice and community, queer visibility, and beauty beyond the mainstream. Recognized in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, Winter’s work democratizes performance in public spaces, museums and galleries, stage, and film. An extension of his creative practice, Winter has curated and directed ScreenDance Miami Festival since 2017, presented by Miami Light Project; Winter’s own films screen internationally. Winter serves as assistant teaching professor in the Honors College and College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University. Winter is affiliated faculty at the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment (CHUE) and an inaugural Fellow in the Miami Studies Program.
