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Screening + Artist Talk
You’re invited to the opening tour of the Venus Art Gallery! Founded in 2021, the V.A.G. is recognized as one of the most respected and innovative visual arts institutions. The Gallery’s ground-breaking exhibitions showcase both the most progressive young artists of today and the most premium mediocre old masters of yesterday.
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Movement Workshop
A movement workshop with 2021 Commissioned Artist Sophie Dow, whose film Mountain Duets premieres directly following this session as part of the Commissioned Artists’ Friday Film Screening. Listen, gather, explore the reciprocity of the circle and cycles within our stories, memories from the earth and the imprints within our own bodies. This workshop welcomes folks of all ages to move and reflect as they embody understandings through a few of the origin teachings of Turtle Island.
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Artist Talk
Join us after Tanin Torabi’s film In Plain Sight plays in our X MARKS THE SPOT screening for an intimate conversation with the filmmaker. Tanin speaks to her experience of living in Tehran, Iran where dance is illegal, and how these barriers and restrictions have become sources of inspiration for her. Her talk expands on her journey in discovering dance filmmaking, and how this stemmed out of a necessity to share her movements beyond her home country of Iran.
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Workshop
In this workshop we use movement, photography, and storytelling to create narrative portraits. Paired with our OFF-THE-WALL screening (5-6PM PDT), participants will meet at 3:30 PM to workshop storyboard techniques as a springboard to learn how to develop dance portraits and characters for the screen. What is your story? How does framing portray your identity? How do I communicate to collaborators about a vision for a film?
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Conversation
Movement and filmmaker duos (and past and present F-O-R-M Commissioned Artists) Karmella Benedito De Barros + Lexi Mellish Mingo and Kyana Lyne + Siam Obregón reflect on their interdisciplinary approaches to creating a film, highlighting the process of building a shared collaborative language. As filmmakers and choreographers, how can we start to build a foundation that bridges both mediums? How can we communicate across mediums, and in what ways do they inform one another?
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Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite
F-O-R-M is excited to be partnering with Evann Siebens and Keith Doyle, and The Vancouver Art Gallery to present this year’s only in-person exhibition! For the week of the festival, the large-scale LED installation screen will feature a curated screening of dance and movement films from artists across Canada that embody stories of social change and move us towards deeper connection to our bodies, land and community.
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Social Media Event
Our FORMations filmmaking jam invites everyone to join in the movement on Instagram. This year’s FORMations will take place before the festival, for 48 hours beginning on Wednesday, September 8. At F-O-R-M 2020, over 70 movers from around the world contributed to the FORMations chain on Instagram stories—we can’t wait to see what we all create together for F-O-R-M 2021.
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