Close your eyes. You have a minute. It’s a lot and not enough. Breathe. Ask your roommate, who is an actress to help you. 50 seconds. Arrange a barter with a friend who will be able to make music in exchange for logos. 45 seconds. There are two ways to do things quickly: short&sweet or quick&dirty and that’s always too dirty loo late and too quick. But don’t worry, you have time. 30 seconds. Run….. a love letter to DIY films.⁠

⁠Directed by: Zuza Marczak

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Echoing the creation/destruction cycle of the Sun and how celestial power manifests in our own nature. Using movement to symbolise the dynamics of power between the individual and collective⁠

⁠Directed by: Ashley Defoe

Choreographed by: Adi Schwarz

While on her way to smoke a cigarette on her rooftop, a young woman is caught by surprise. ⁠

⁠Directed by: Rosalind Joyce

Choreographed by: Annika Voorheis, Pimprenelle Noël & Rosalind Joyce

Ugly Nasty is a satirical critique of the far right political party in the US, as well as it's currently aligning US administration. The work emphasizes the false narratives fabricated by the far right designed to negatively depict marginalized groups advocating for human rights. When creating the work we took possession of these false narratives, and restructured their meaning in ways that not only critique their policy and views, but make fun of them.⁠

The work Ugly Nasty comes from a larger Andrews Movement collection called Tiny Dances. Tiny Dances is a collection of small dance films with large significance that center around shining light on social and political inequities, as well as disrupting gender norms.  ⁠

⁠Directed & Choreographed by: Haley Andrews⁠

A young woman is trapped in emotional limbo after years of social suppression in Iran. She is suspended in stillness as life echoes faintly around her. Distant explosions punctuate her isolation, and every attempt to move forward is disrupted by external forces. As she gradually dissolves into nature, the film meditates on the fragility of human existence. Though the seasons shift from winter to spring, she remains frozen in silence and solitude.⁠

⁠Co-Directed by: Lagha Ghavam & Mohsen Pourusefian

Choreographed by: Lagha Ghavam

(a video catalogue of portraits on intimacy and violence)⁠

PORTRAIT 2: VICIOUSNESS AND VULNERABILITY⁠

This dreamlike portrait follows the seven dancers on an incoherent journey of trying to find belonging and rest in a constantly shifting environment. Exposing yourself to intimacy is vulnerable and demands you to trust. Viciousness as a misleading development can make you doubt this trust. A search of finding comfort and rest in a loaded space of ever changing perspectives where innocence and intimacy are constantly on the verge of getting violent and vicious.⁠

⁠Director, Choreographer, Executive Producer & Concept: Lino Eckenstein⁠

Co-Director, Movement director & Executive Producer: Eden Manga-Nkoy⁠

Bruta is a film that moves through defiance and dominance within a stark, heightened frontier world, where seriousness and absurdity quietly coexist. Three protagonists carry these forces in their bodies and gestures, confronting them until they turn against a mysterious masked man. Starring Rachel Marx, Sarah Boursin, and Drielly Oliveira, the film drifts through extremes of hardness and intensity, tracing how one passes through them, all set to The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell.⁠

⁠Written, Directed & Choreographed by: Sulian Rios⁠

"dust" is a dance film that explores themes of legacy and mortality in the cycle of intergenerational caregiving. It pays tribute to the compassion, reciprocity, and unconditional love present as we guide one another into and out of this life. It depicts the experience of caring for my father as he died of cancer. ⁠

⁠Directed & Choreographed by: Noelle Kayser

Comfort Zone is a choreographic short film blending performance and storytelling through a fashion-inspired aesthetic. It subtly parodies self-improvement narratives and their overblown metaphors, those soft, seductive voices whispering to “become the best version of yourself."⁠

⁠Directed by: Caroline Grimprel & Clara Lie⁠

Between collective motion and inner overflow, one body searches for authenticity beyond choreographed routine.⁠

AKIN examines the tension between collective synchronicity and the hidden inner reality of the individual. One protagonist describes her overwhelming feelings, while three other figures appear as aesthetic mirrors of her inner states. In a world that demands perfection and smooth functioning, everyday life continues like a mechanical system even when the inside has long overflowed. The bodies increasingly come under pressure until the structure discharges in synchronous, yet faulty movements. The encounter with an antagonist opens a moment of silent perception and raises the question of whose emotions are actually at work in the space. AKIN reveals a raw, deeply human choreography between adaptation and authentic expression.⁠

Director of Photography/Edit/Color: Tom Chansiraphet

Choreography: Pelin Terzi, Isa Lientschnigg, Yangjunjie Tian, Selina Sigrist, & Manuel Neubauer

The story of an insecure, kind-hearted young man who finally wants to experience love. To achieve this, he goes dancing. A stop-motion animation of embroidery and thread, rich in patterns and references to the folk culture of Silesia, Moravia, and the surrounding area.⁠

⁠Directed by: Mateusz Denis Pawełczyk

Choreographed by: Wiktoria Krysiak

Two men - meeting at an intersection of alleyways - zoom in and out of their past and present. Mining dance and site, the film WE explores feelings of isolation and belonging, compassion and disdain, and paints a portrait of life and longing on the streets of Venice Beach, California where displacement and scarcity walk hand in hand with abundance.⁠

⁠Directed & Choreographed by: Sarah Elgart