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A SEQUENCE OF MOVING PIXELS
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INTREPIDITY AND EXISTENCE

INTREPIDITY AND EXISTENCE

Haley Jacques

Duration: 3:09

Independant screendance artist Haley Jacques from Calgary, Alberta in collaboration with Contemporary dance artist Jolie Che from Calgary, Alberta, bring 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

opaqueREFUSALS

opaqueREFUSALS

danielle Mackenzie Long

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

PMS: PEPPER MENSTRUAL SYNDROME

PMS: PEPPER MENSTRUAL SYNDROME

Jasmine Mohan Zhu

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

GARGANTA

GARGANTA

Ysadora Miranda Dias

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

Be Vardų, Be Kojų

Be Vardų, Be Kojų

Brigita Gedgaudas

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

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FORM is based in so-called Vancouver, in what is colonially known as Canada, on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. FORM continues to reflect on and bring attention to connection to bodies, land and movement through filmmaking, documentation and storytelling. We are grateful to share and witness these stories together while inspiring movement towards positive change, wherever you may be.