Free Monthly Screendance Features

Regard Hybrides and F-O-R-M are partnering to feature two films each month from each of our collections. From Regard Hybrides, they will feature a film from their online collection, and from F-O-R-M, we will feature a film from our collection of commissioned films from the past 9 years.

Together, Regard Hybrides and F-O-R-M will be making monthly collaborative posts to highlight a film from each of our collections, as an effort to uplift and celebrate screendance/dance film works throughout the year from artists across Canada.

 

June 2025 Feature

Where We Meet
Karmella cen Benedito De Barros & Lexi Mellish-Mingo

Where We Meet is an experimental film exploring the Black femme body and its relationship to space through conscious movement on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam people. The story follows our protagonist as they navigate isolation and seek a sense of belonging in a conflicting and new environment. Drawing on themes of double consciousness and experimental embodiment, this story explores the relationship between Blackness and the environment in which this concept exists. Drawing from community dialogue to address the filmmakers’ own subjective relationship to public space as mixed race Black identifying people, this film intends to hold space for diverse experiences of Blackness in so called “Vancouver”. In times where racial politics exist in every crevice of society, the filmmakers escape temporal confines by decolonizing our situated experience, delving into the untold past, dreamy memories and future imaginings.

Filmmaker: Karmella cen Benedito De Barros
Filmmaker and Mover: Lexi Mellish-Mingo
Music Composer: Isaia Dobbs
Mover: Janessa St. Pierre
Mover and Interviewee: Kafiya Mudey
Interviewees: Felix-Marie Badeau, Chelene Knigh and Rubie Smith Díaz

The creation of this film was supported by the 2020 F-O-R-M Commissioning Funds, in partnership with Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, and Charles st. Video (Toronto). We would like to thank the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver.

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