In partnership with grunt gallery & Simon Fraser University
Location: Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Intersection of Broadway & Kingsway, Vancouver, on the side of the Independent Building, and on screens around SFU Downtown, Burnaby and Surrey Campuses
FREE EVENT
The program will run on the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen over the weekends, specifically Saturdays and Sundays, throughout the festival:
November 4th and 5th
November 11th and 12th
November 18th and 19th
The program will run at select SFU campuses.
SFU Woodward’s Lobby:
November 4th - 18th: 9am - 5pm PST
Screens of all shapes and sizes have become a part of our daily lives — encounters with a screen have become inevitable. Our Public Screens program urges you to look up and beyond the screens at your fingertips, observe your surroundings, and engage with movement-on-screen as you move through your day.
This collection of genre-defying short films invites passersby to embark on a unique visual journey. Within each film, distinct filmmaking approaches craft captivating visual experiences, compelling us to reshape our perceptions and re-evaluate the familiar. As you engage with these films, we invite you to rediscover the hidden beauty within your daily transitions, one step at a time.
In partnership with Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (grunt gallery) and SFU, we invite you to find, pass by, witness and enjoy a selection of vibrant films throughout the festival week. Stay for a minute, for half an hour or come back the next day.
If you see these screens, we invite you to snap a pic, or take a video and tag @formvancouver with #FORMvancouver2023
List of Films:
SATURATED
Kristen-Innes Stambolic (Canada) EMERGING
Vancouver Premiere
PMS: PEPPER MENSTRUAL SYNDROME
Jasmine Mohan Zhu (Canada) YOUTH
World Premiere
HERBARIUM
Regina Lissowska-Postaremczak (Poland) EMERGING
GARGANTA
Ysadora Miranda Dias (Canada) YOUTH
IL COSTUME DI VALDRADA
Silvia Autorino (Italy) EMERGING
Vancouver Premiere
Be Vardų, Be Kojų
Brigita Gedgaudas (Canada) YOUTH
Vancouver Premiere
A SEQUENCE OF MOVING PIXELS
Kaila Bhullar (Canada) EMERGING
INTREPIDITY AND EXISTENCE
Haley Jacques (Canada) YOUTH
UTATU
Andy Dongan Liu (Canada) EMERGING
opaqueREFUSALS
danielle Mackenzie Long (Canada) YOUTH
World Premiere
NETTE - A KINESIC EXPERIMENT
Artemis Pyrpilis (Greece) EMERGING
Canada Premiere
FASHION BLOGGER
Iris Gao (Canada) EMERGING
World Premiere
A SEQUENCE OF MOVING PIXELS
Kaila Bhullar | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 6:58
An experimental audiovisual work that explores the constructed nature of perception, and some of its nutritive factors, i.e. images and media. Using a non-linear form and collage aesthetic, the work aims at expressing a disjointed narrative coming from personal feelings and observations.
Director, Creator: Kaila Bhullar
INTREPIDITY AND EXISTENCE
Haley Jacques | CANADA | YOUTH
Duration: 3:09
Independent screendance artist Haley Jacques from Calgary, Alberta in collaboration with Contemporary dance artist Jolie Che from Calgary, Alberta, brings you "Intrepidity and Existence", an abstract, experimental dance short film which explores an internal conflict around a desire to live a life apart from societal pressure and expectation. Filmed on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia). Soundscore derived from "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean.
Director: Haley Jacques
Cinematographer: Haley Jacques
Editor: Haley Jacques
Dancer: Jolie Che
Soundscore: "Seigfried" (instrumental) by Frank Ocean
UTATU
Andy Dongan Liu | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 2:52
The short film introduces Isaac, Clement and Serge, who are well established members from the Afrobeats dance community in Vancouver and have been actively promoting this part of art culture around the city through dance classes and public shows. Through the lens of a first-time filmmaker and close friend to the three dancers, the film seeks to explore ideas behind their passion for Afrobeats dance and share the genre and its vibrancy to the public with impromptu performances.
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Andy Dongan Liu
Dancers: Isaac Gasangwa, Clement Rugwiro, Serge Biriteye
opaqueREFUSALS
danielle Mackenzie Long | CANADA | YOUTH | WORLD PREMIERE
Duration: 1:30
A ribcage embodies a dance, refusing to allow its movement to be constrained by a diaphragm made of bubble wrap.
Using animation software and motion capture data from a non-binary dance artist’s movement a dance is presented through non-gendered means of performance. opaqueREFUSALS is the first volume of a work-in-progress interdisciplinary project combining movement, digital media, installation, online game design and live performance. The work aims to empower genderqueer dance artists to exist in a world where gender is neither binary, nor defined.
Director, Animator, Dancer, Editor: danielle Mackenzie Long
Sound Designer: Miya Kosowick Mawatari
New Media Support: Freya Björg Olafson, Casey Koyczan
NETTE - A KINESIC EXPERIMENT
Artemis Pyrpilis | GREECE | EMERGING | CANADA PREMIERE
Duration: 11:38
In 2019, 7 years after my grandmother’s passing, I went for the first time to the house where she was born and spent her childhood. Searching through the rooms, drawers and boxes I discovered previously unseen pictures of her when she was a young girl in the 40s. A dancer, a gymnast, a restless girl whom her close ones called Nette. Who was she really and what is my connection to her? Through her death it became clear to me that there were much more things uniting us than I had ever imagined. I decided to interact with these archival images through my body.
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Performer : Artemis Pyrpilis
SATURATED
Kristen-Innes Stambolic | CANADA | EMERGING | VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Duration: 5:14
SATURATED combines dance and animation to explore colour. Each section of the film takes you to explore and feel different colour, ending in an explosion of saturation. Abstract, hand drawn line animation dances across the screen and creates a playful duet with Sasha. I invite you to feel each colour.
Director, Editor, Animator: Kristen-Innes Stambolic
Cinematographer: Jacob Rodier
Dancer, Choreographer, Wardrobe: Sasha Speed
Composer: Alex Gluch
Colorist: Anthony Zor
Special thanks to the RT Collective
PMS: PEPPER MENSTRUAL SYNDROME
Jasmine Mohan Zhu | CANADA | YOUTH | WORLD PREMIERE
Duration: 3:26
PMS: PEPPER MENSTRUAL SYNDROME is an experimental film highlighting women's struggles during monthly cycles. The pepper, shaped like a womb, symbolizes pain, frustration, and exhaustion caused by monthly cycles. It aims to raise awareness of this overlooked hardship which is often normalized and expected for women to overcome. The film prompts reflection on attitudes towards menstruation, fostering empathy and understanding. It contributes to the dialogue on gender, health, and social justice through visual motifs and body language.
Director, Cinematographer: Jasmine Mohan Zhu
Performer: Katharine Jinyan Zhao
HERBARIUM
Iwona Pasińska | POLAND | EMERGING
Duration: 13:00
ZIELNIK/HERBARIUM is the fifth choreographic film directed by Iwona Pasinska. It is a fairy-tale episode, told with tenderness, gushing with the intense colours of flowers and élan vital. Choreography composed to a suite by Edward Grieg and presented by the artists-dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre takes the audience into the world of flora. It allows to explore a day in the life of a plant from the moment it blooms to the end, drowned in warm nostalgia. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful world of flowers and leaves, in the greens, reds and purples transitioning to the greys and browns of the autumn. And all this told with movement to the rhythm of the dynamic sounds of the suite Peer Gynt op. 1 performed by Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera.
Script, Direction: Iwona Pasińska
Scenic Design, Costumes: Andrzej Grabowski
Score: Edward Grieg
Cinematographer: Marek Grabowski
Editor: Edyta Pietrowska
Colour Correction, Post-production: Mirosław Feliks Mamczur
Costume Assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz
Cast: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Julia Hałka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kaźmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo Namkung, Pau Perez-Pique, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryańczyk
GARGANTA
Ysadora Miranda Dias | CANADA | YOUTH
Duration: 1:29
The song "Garganta" comes to life through movements that explore the inner struggle between the mind and the heart. It represents the complexity of human emotions and the challenge of expressing oneself fully. The performance culminates in a moment of realization, understanding that doubting one's own voice doesn't diminish one's essence, conveying a message of liberation and empowerment.
Dancer: Ysadora Dias
Cinematographer, Editor: Igor Gomes
IL COSTUME DI VALDRADA
Silvia Autorino | ITALY | EMERGING | VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Duration: 3:15
Freely inspired by the Valdrada story from Italo Calvino's "Le città invisibili", the video work aims to lead towards an emblematic thought over the reality of the individual and his appearance. We are in a world full of images that shapes and reconstructs emotions and actions. An occult and deceptive reality that is reflected in our daily life.
Director: Silvia Autorino
Performer: Roberta Fanzini, Mariangela Milano
Videomaker: Sara Grasso
Music: Daniele Gherrino
Assistant Director: Vittoria Guarracino
Editors: Silvia Autorino, Sara Grasso
Be Vardų, Be Kojų
Brigita Gedgaudas | CANADA | YOUTH | VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Duration: 2:55
“Be Vardų, Be Kojų”, meaning ‘without names, without legs’, is an experimental, animated, dance film investigating queer movement in Lithuanian folk dance. Using photograms made from scanning dancers performing specific gendered folk dance steps, each dancer has been glitched by the computer’s inability to put moving bodies into one space and time. Transforming into aliens, these bodies don’t conform to earthly physics, boundaries, and rules; they act as disruptive agents stripping folk dance of binary roles and structures assigned to dancers. Unrestricted, these glitches can create new forms of folk dance that reinvent traditions to imagine queer futures and dreams.
Director, Dancer, Animator, Editor, Sound Designer, Writer: Brigita Gedgaudas
FASHION BLOGGER
Iris Gao | CANADA | EMERGING | WORLD PREMIERE
Duration: 2:30
Your fashion is THE fashion! In this dance film, dancers from punking, w*acking and voguing culture come together to showcase their unique movements as well as their favourite outfits. As all of these dance genres originate from LGBTQ+ culture, we convey through our movements that everyone is the star of their own stage by being their authentic selves!
Director, Designer: Iris Gao
Dancers: Rosie M. Richard, Katria V. Phothong-McKinnon, SINUHÉ, Maria Belen de Rama, Shelby Tan, Stephanie Li, Juan Imperial, Ivan Lo, Iris Gao
Cinematographer, Editor, Lighting: Jullian P. Visco
Soundtrack: Fashion Blogger - RHYME SO