Connections Across Distances

Alfonso Luis Sales
Duration: 3:57

During a hot summer day, a Taho vendor is surprised to see two other street vendors (Buko vendor and Balut Vendor) at his usual selling place in the park. Tensions rise when a potential customer arrives. The three vendors end up competing against each other showing their wits and skills with a mix of charm, showing why it’s always more fun in the Philippines.

Credits:

Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Alfonso Sales
Choreographers: Erik Cruz, Jigoro Gragasin, Elijah Mendoza
Producer: Sky Solitude Pictures
Production Manager, Colorist: Raine De los Reyes
Camera Operators: Shim Abrio, Kyle Chu, Raine De los Reyes
Production Assistants: Debie Rose Tiamson, Iñigo Abaya, Julia Rebollido, Karla Urquiaga, Marco Profeta

Annika Wong
Duration: 3:09

A young woman explores her personal understanding of the mood and feeling associated with nostalgia, the longing for something past, and the humble acceptance of a profound love that was always meant to end. Movement based visuals combine with spoken word narration through an intimate letter that discusses the melancholy and joy that embodies what it means to live in New York City.

Credits:

Director, Performer, Writer, Editor: Annika Wong
Cinematographer: Anneliese Wong
Music: Finesse by Django Reinhardt

Roberto Cherubini
Duration: 3:10

IN-CONTRO is a project that arises from the desire to investigate the relationships and correlations between the concept of space and time. The aim is to offer a vision of reality that assumes an illogical logic, for which two same bodies share the same space at the same time. The idea aims to provoke reflections upon the illusion of experiencing a shared and concrete reality online, where what we perceive as tangible is rather surreal, as it is subjected to personal interpretation and variations of space and time.

Credits:

Director: Roberto Cherubini
Choreographers: Ilaria Ignesti and Roberto Cherubini
Dancers: Ilaria Ignesti and Roberto Cherubini
Cinematographer: Roberto Cherubini
Editing: Roberto Cherubini
Music: Dark Anthem (live in Paris) by Apparat

Lisa Kusanagi
Duration: 8:34

Between past/water and future/desert, a woman warrior dances to bring the water back.

A wintry forest comes to life in this delightfully weird collaboration between Lisa and JuJu Kusanagi and Yvonne Meier. Their choreography of snow and ice, trees and sunlight, body parts and forest creatures evokes the playful illusionism.

Credits:

Director: Lisa Kusanagi
Choreographers & Cast: Lisa Kusanagi, JuJu Kusanagi, Yvonne Meier
Cinematographer: Koichi Makino
Producers: Yvonne Meier, Lisa Kusanagi
Editor: Lisa Kusanagi
Composer: Ran Bagno

Jarren Lau Zong Xian
Duration: 6:26

Against the backdrop of William Blakes's "The Echoing Green", PASSING PHASES is a dance narrative film that celebrates the moment of now, the act of living.

Each dancer portrays the different phases in life; Birth, Growth and Death. Each with their own unique style and place, they exist together as a whole, much like the poem itself; the 3 stanzas that describe the act of living and it still seen as a whole.

Credits:

Director: Jarren Lau
Choreographers & Dancers: Chan Chao Peng, Cheryl Grace Wee, Pang Xue Jing
Cinematographer: Lee Jing Wei
Editor: Jarren Lau
Gaffer: Kester Kiew
Production Design: Sandra Sek

Hayden Rivas
Duration: 4:21

Rivas writes: “This film was made with the intention of trying to showcase my own feelings of feeling isolated but consistently trying to brush it off. I'm surrounded by so many wonderful people that it feels as though I should have no complaints; however, at times I feel lost. I wanted to use movement to showcase the feelings that I wish I could express with words.”

Credits:

Director, Choreographer, Cinematographer, Editor: Hayden Rivas
Choreographer, Performer: William Okajima
Music: Gabriel Jon Griswold
Additional Music Editing: Michael Naffier