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Land Acknowledgment

"time has no place" is screening in Friday 11, 2024 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:time has no place is a dance film meditation on community and shelter. Shot in the other worldly environment of Mississauga’s Art Shelter, geometric forms pervade the structure and set and are mirrored in the choreography and cinematography. Themes of searching, gathering, touch and support are woven between the polarities of lost and found. The performers are members of the York Dance Ensemble. Credits:Susan LeeDirector Victoria ChadwickKey Cast Clara ChemtovKey Cast Jemima CummingsKey Cast Christiano DiDomenicoKey Cast Danika GeenKey Cast Rosie HalpinKey Cast Jaelyn JonesKey Cast Travis KeithKey Cast Victoria KuronenKey Cast Isabelle LeeKey Cast Sahara ShwedKey Cast Jules VanceKey Cast Stephanie VoinouKey Cast Connie OreamunoDirector of Photography Connie OreamunoEditor Mark DugganComposer

time has no place here

"OFFSIDE TRAP" is screening in Friday 11, 2024 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:"Offside Trap" is a narrative-driven dance film which delves into the gap that often exists between our perception of reality versus actuality.As complex individuals, we frequently interpret reality through our individual prism, shaped by our past experiences, traumas, and memories.Blinded by her triggers, our protagonist is hijacked by her distorted perception. She makes quick assumptions and jumps to conclusions, intensifying her detachment from actual reality. Credits:Sivan ChriquiDirector/Producer/ Key Cast <img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/509/827/original/fbc4d1cb6c-headshot.jpg?1695634399" width="253">

OFFSIDE TRAP

"Once There Was &amp; Once There Was Not" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:An eco-sensual spin on stories adapted from Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run with the Wolves. Credits:Director Biography -&nbsp;Natalie Koski-Karell, Jade Sanchez<a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/657/637/original/f95a4fd7f1-headshot.jpg?1709013185" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/657/637/thumb/f95a4fd7f1-headshot.jpg?1709013185" width="190" style="border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative;"></a>Through her work which spans theatre, dance, film, and social sciences, Natalie explores the medicinal aspects of our relationship to land, plants, and movement. Her artistic practice and storytelling is rooted in improvisation, ritual, and ontology. Natalie Koski-KarellDirector Jade SanchezDirector Natalie Koski-KarellWriter Natalie Koski-KarellProducer Natalie Koski-KarellKey Cast Allison DelgadoKey Cast Amelie Bay CorreaKey Cast Blanca EspinozaKey Cast Derricka SmithKey Cast

Once There Was & Once There Was Not

"Duet" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> ﻿Description:It is a search and recognition of the identity of fraternal twin dancers. We share similar genes, but we are also searching for our own unique identity. We have both harmony and conflict, similarities and differences between us. We Feeling the complexity of identity and the importance of finding one's unique position. This is our dialogue with the environment, as well as our dialogue with our own souls.Ratings Credits:Meng Yi LiuDirector Tong Li QinExecutive Producer Dong Xu WangExecutive Producer Xuan Zi TangCinematographer Yue NiuEditor Yue NiuColor grader Meng Yi LiuDancer Lei Yi LiuDancer Meng Yi LiuVoice-over Lei Yi LiuVoice-over Qian Hui XuVoice-over

DUET

"Noora" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:Noora is a dance short film that follows Noora's movement. She is a dancer. Her body's impulses are generated in the moment from contact with different environments. Noora has congenital bone fragility, Osteogenesis Imperfecta. She uses a wheelchair as a dancing aid and in it, she can move widely, but feels isolated from the surrounding environment. She is searching ways to move, focusing on possibilities rather than on limitations. On the ground, she feels the ground against her skin. In the water she can let go of her wheelchair. Noora's toes sink into the mud bottom, which pulsates with her steps. The water supports her fragile body with its pressure and surrounded by it she dares to move more freely, her body is more elastic, her expressions and range of motion are greater. Credits:Anna KekkonenWriter Jenny TimonenWriter Anna KekkonenProducer Noora VästinenKey Cast Director Biography -&nbsp;Anna Kekkonen<a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/524/732/original/3a193a8423-headshot.jpg?1696087130" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/524/732/thumb/3a193a8423-headshot.jpg?1696087130" width="149" style="border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative;"></a>Anna Kekkonen is a Finnish filmmaker. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Audiovisual Media Culture from University of Lapland, Finland. Beside film making, she is a passionate diver and underwater cinematographer, which has taken her around the world for 17 years. The themes of her films are strongly inspired by her own physical sensations underwater. She approaches her films through physicality, movement, senses and diversity. What emerges when we are surrounded by such an element that forces us to sense beyond what we consider normal. Along with filming her own films her biggest filming jobs were two fulldome nature documentaries “Baltic Sea” and “The Embrace of the Ocean”. Her debut film, a short documentary Surface and alongside short dance film Noora got their premiere in late 2023. Director StatementFor me the water element has always been an impressive element. First time I dived underwater I experienced something so radically different in my body that I felt that I had to learn moving all over again. It gave me the opportunity to experience my body in a way that was not possible before and opened up new perspectives. Through my own experiences I got interested in how people who have some disability and limitations to move on land can take advantage of being in the water and I came up with two films, Noora and Surface.While interviewing people with different disabilities I noticed specifically that they felt that there are still strong misleading beliefs of restrictions towards people who use moving aids and whose disabilities are visible, like people who use wheelchairs. Although for handicapped people wheelchair enables movement, there are a lot of contradictory thoughts towards them because of how they feel people perceive them while using moving aids. In the dance film Noora, Noora herself suggested she wanted to play her wheelchair. She wanted to break the thought of how a wheelchair should traditionally be used by putting herself in active instead of passive role, to the role of the subject instead of the receiving object. It brings us to a question: who has power to tell what people with disabilities can or can't do? Often limitations are made by people who do not have disabilities themselves even though the most valuable knowledge comes from the people with the disabilities, their own personal experiences. Also we have to widen our thoughts that moving can be achieved in many creative ways, there is no one way to do that. That is also why the film strongly emphasizes experientiality, the relationship between the human body, it´s movement and environment. It's shown visually. Water provides the film with a strong expression, an environment where the experience is conveyed strongly through images, without words. Dance movie Noora is about possibilities, not restrictions. All bodies have the opportunity to dance, there are many ways to achieve it.In the film Noora searches for unique ways to move. She uses water to express herself as freely as possible. It allows her freedom to walk and dance bigger. Her movements in water are lighter, wider and more flexible. She says that she feels that water supports her fragile body, it does not judge.Ratings

Noora

"So I" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:This film is a hand-drawn animation exploring the concept of animation through dance movements. In the meanwhile, it gives a perspective about loneliness, the inevitable isolation of the physical body as well as taking an introspective approach, through finding sources on self and self-exploration. “Sometimes the thing I've been longing for doesn't exist in places I can see, So I decided to dance.” Credits:Charlotte SunDirector Flora SunComposer Charlotte SunAnimator Director Biography -&nbsp;Charlotte Sun<a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/782/979/original/da4c4f528f-headshot.jpg?1716367187" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/782/979/thumb/da4c4f528f-headshot.jpg?1716367187" width="187" style="border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative;"></a>Charlotte (Lingtong) Sun is a Chinese animator, and visual artist currently studying Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Growing up in Beijing, China, and pursuing arts for 5 years, her work explores the concept and philosophy from traditional Chinese art to a modern interpretation and is highly connected to her personal experience as an individual who has ineffable emotion and a complex love of people around her. A lot of her work is inspired by the purely sensory experience of life and an existential theme concerning self-awareness and self-exploration.

So I

"you and i are stood" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:Stillness and strength are held between two people while navigating an environment in flux. Credits:Mischa BakaDirector Ella DumaresqKey Cast Shari CohenKey Cast Director Biography -&nbsp;Mischa Baka<a href="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/618/979/original/8e01c29298-headshot.jpg?1706677601" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com/press_kits/headshots/002/618/979/thumb/8e01c29298-headshot.jpg?1706677601" width="141" style="border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 12.95px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative;"></a>Mischa holds a Masters by Research degree from the University of Melbourne, with the project "Writing Dialogue: Stance, Space and Emotion" (2018), and his practice-led research incorporates dance, linguistics and screen writing. Mischa holds an undergraduate degree and honours from the Victorian College of the Arts film school where his graduate film Last Beautiful Friend (2009, 25 mins) was awarded Most Daring and Innovative Production, Best Achievement in Editing and Best Achievement in Sound.The film was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award in 2010. In 2011 Mischa attended the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival where Last Beautiful Friend screened as part of the international program.Mischa was an editor of Tau Seru, a short film that premiered at Cannes Critics Week in 2013, which was winner of Best Australian Short Film at the 2013 Melbourne International Short Film Festival.Mischa Baka is a producer of Yogini Melbourne, a popular Yoga YouTube channel. Mischa Baka’s work has included Dance and Film Work at the 2014 and 2015 Underbelly Arts Festival, Cockatoo Island. Fine art exhibitions include To boldly go where everyone has gone before, 2009, at Blindside, Melbourne. Dance work includes the video aspects of 10,000 Small Deaths at Dance Massive, Melbourne, 2015, and collaborations with Fling Physical Theatre, Stompin and Tracks Dance Company with a community focus.In 2018, Mischa co-directed (with Siobhan Jackson) his debut feature film, You Can Say Vagina (2018, 70 mins). Mischa and Siobhan are currently in post-production on their 2nd feature, Saltbush. Director StatementA great rush of water flowed into the waves. Ella and Shari navigated the water and we explored shapes and holding positions that contrasted against the fluidity of the moving water. A metaphor of trying to find permanence in the persistent flow of time perhaps? Or holding on to other people to find a sense of stability in the chaos.

you and i are stood

"MANCHAS" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:"S T A I N S" is a short film composed of five short videos that use dance as a language to tell the story of a family and the generational traumas that have left indelible stains in their history. This audiovisual work proposes an introspective and empathetic experience for all viewers by exploring the concepts of family and stains as narrative resources in the context of traditional Latino families.As the videos unfold, we witness the challenges and burdens this family has carried over time. Each member of the family, from grandparents to the youngest children, carries with them the stains of previous generations. These stains are physically manifested in improvised dance, through expressive movements and symbolic gestures.Throughout the short film, viewers witness how these stains affect family dynamics and the relationships between its members. The wounds of the past intertwine with the present, creating a complex and often painful emotional tapestry. However, as the narrative progresses, it also shows the capacity for healing and growth that dance provides for each character.That is why all the videos are made from improvisation, where the dancers produced and interpreted the story from their personal experiences and the elements they share in common in their life stories."S T A I N S" invites the audience on a journey of self-exploration and empathy, as the spots represent the struggles and challenges we all face in our families and communities. Through dance as a universal language, this short film offers an opportunity to understand and appreciate the experiences of traditional Latino families, encouraging dialogue and reflection on family relationships and overcoming past traumas. Juan Pablo Zamora-RodríguezDirector Abril JenkinsDirector Indiego UreñaDirector Juan Pablo Zamora-RodríguezWriter Abril JenkinsProducer Juan Pablo Zamora-RodríguezKey Cast José Antonio VenturaKey Cast Victoria CalvoKey Cast Felipe Garzon-PulidoKey Cast Fabiola QuirósKey Cast Andy CarvajalEditors Indiego UreñaEditors Abril JenkinsEditors

M A N C H A S

"RE-COLLECT" is screening in Friday 11, 2024, 7:00 pm Program<a href="https://contactdancefilmfest.eventive.org/schedule/66aceda303f5e30051dd980d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In person</a><a href="https://watch.eventive.org/contactdancefilmfest/play/66cdfd50d3572f005abc65a9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Online</a> Description:RE-COLLECT is an experimental dance documentary that celebrates and interrogates the history of Contact Improvisation at the intersection of performance, Covid-19, and racial justice. Featuring the embodied exchange of intergenerational dance artists, RE-COLLECT brings unspoken histories to the forefront and invites a more inclusive future of the form. Credits:Anya CloudProject Directors Karen SchaffmanProject Directors Tara KnightDocumentation Director Ishmael Houston-JonesKey Cast Darrell JonesKey Cast Makisig AkinKey Cast Karen NelsonKey Cast Elle HongKey Cast Jun AkiyamaKey Cast jose e. abadKey Cast Ryuta IwashitaKey Cast Eryn RosenthalKey Cast Karen SchaffmanKey Cast Anya CloudKey Cast Minnie AtkinsKey Cast Daniel GroveKey Cast Skyla MilesKey Cast Caiser LeBoss OwensKey Cast Lesly RodriguezKey Cast Ray HalmrastKey Cast Anya CloudProducer Karen SchaffmanProducer Tara KnightCamera Kimberly BiancaCamera Pat ClarkCamera Ivan PinaCamera Strina RossCamera Tara KnightEditors Jun AkiyamaEditors Elle HongEditors Karen SchaffmanEditors Anya CloudEditors Christopher PetilloLighting Designer Emett CaseyColorist Paulus van HorneAudio Engineer and Sound Engineer Website:&nbsp;<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinkgravitydancetank.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7Cbca3d03cb37040afdc0e08dccc6196a8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638609966713372076%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=o%2FpSwBZB%2BYLVuQRsnSDWJVl9%2Btw25HhG6h0QouSfOsg%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thinkgravitydancetank.com/</a>

RE-COLLECT

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