Dhumkkudiya
Nandlal Nayak | India | 01:49:00 | 2019 Hindi Budhwa – a native tribal realizes his true identity while serving to his rich masters. Despite being an integral part of the Tribal Community, Budhwa sabotaged its own people, culture, Identity, and beliefs in pursuit of his greed. Cast Rajesh Jais Subrat Dutta Vinod Anand Gita… Read more »
The Web Opera
Kate Jopson | United States | 00:40:00 | 2020 English “ENGROSSING & DISTURBINGLY REAL …” Cut Common, the New Generation of Classical Music “HIGH VOLTAGE MUSIC! A BEAUTIFULLY, POIGNANTLY CONSTRUCTED & BRILLIANTLY REALIZED NEW OPERA!” – Fanfare “GROUNDBREAKING … A GREAT 21st CENTURY OPERA” – RANDY NEWMAN With THE WEB OPERA, composer Michael Roth has… Read more »
“Caramujo”
Diane Belquer | Brazil | 00:05:00 | 2020 Portuguese It’s 2020 and the Corona Virus epidemic is making huge changes in our perspectives, our lives, our thoughts and our plans. Is everything really going to change when all of this is gone? Who are those people who have been invisible for so many years in… Read more »
Death Offers Life – last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
Saheer Abbas | India | 00:08:00 | 2020 Malayalam The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully…. Read more »
“TH SR” Second Version
Mimi Garrard | United States | 00:15:25 | 2020 English “TH SR” is a dance created for video featuring the dancer Samuel Roberts and the composer Tom Hamilton. Cast Samuel Roberts Producer The Mimi Garrard Dance Company, Inc. Music Tom Hamilton
I see everything
Brad Overbeck | United States | 00:05:23 | 2020 A structural cinema video using “found” clips from other cinematic works. There is no narrative (no-story-to-tell). Clips move to and from (by montage) one space to another with only minor associations. Some cuts are almost reflexive (up/down, loud to soft, micro to macro.
Dreaming Tango
Frances Barth | United States | 00:15:15 | 2020 English, Spanish A film about Argentine Tango and its place in the lives of five people: a young girl having to leave her country and lose her friends and family finds dance, a woman far from Argentina listens to her uncle’s orchestra all the time playing… Read more »
The road of the weather
Afroditi Tavri | China | 00:11:11 | 2020 Chinese Between the mountains of Xunhua, there is a very beautiful lake, Mengda Tianchi. This lake is magical. But, if someone wants to find it, it has to do a difficult and long way. Salar people know this road well. They are moving back and forth to… Read more »
Twisted Gift
In this film short, Melissa Michaels dances through her healing journey from late stage ovarian cancer to no evidence of disease. Weaving together images from her surgery, chemotherapy, and unique creative process, her story of liberation is transparently shared. Vulnerable, raw, and inspiring, a picture of what is possible when movement becomes medicine and faith… Read more »
The Love of Statues
Inspired by the Automata museum in Souillac, the film uses automata and puppets as human surrogates, and combines original material with found-footage and archive photographs. The idea of hypnosis occurs throughout.