A terrific festival where every single film showcased received multiple votes for BEST FILM. Each film is the best of the best of Experimental/Dance/Music films from around the world in the last year.
Best Film: The Sweater
Best Experimental: Oasis
Best Dance Film: Matter
Best Music Video: Chaton – From the Future
Best Performances: Cabaré
Best Story: clipping. – Run It
Best Direction: Echo of Silence
Best Cinematography: Plié (On Eggshells
Best Sound & Music Everyone Wants A Tight Pussy
Best Visual Design: Khimairas of the Kinesphere
SEE THE LINEUP OF FILMS:
Cabaré, 6min., Brazil, Music
Directed by Emerson de Lucca Brandt
Drama, body, poetry. Dude São Thiago breathes new fire into brazilians João Bosco & Aldir Blanc’s classic “Cabaré”—a standout from his debut double album O Sexo do Vento. This isn’t just a cover—it’s a reinvention. A ritual. A reclamation.
https://www.instagram.com/dudesaothiago/
Khimairas of the Kinesphere, 9min., USA, Dance
Directed by Eric Souther, Kelsey Paschich
Khimairas of the Kinesphere explores the extension of the mediated body. Human movement choreographed for digital avatars which work as sites for artificially generated images. The crises of climate change demands a hybridization and reexamination of the relationship between humans and nature, a redesign, a second nature. We are forced to reimagine our co-existence and our role in shaping the future.
https://edge.aditude.io/safeframe/1-1-1/html/container.html
Chaton – From the Future, 3min., USA, Music
Directed by Marcus CB Soori
Chaton’s super-danceable and hard-punching debut track is inspired by futurism, the aspiration to create technologies seemingly from the future, to enable a better life for us all today.
Plié (On Eggshells), 14min., Spain, Dance
Directed by Virgo Martinez
From dawn to dusk, set in the Danish countryside, ‘Plié’ captures the beauty of youth combined with the absurd and inevitable lack of presence when a heart goes through loss. The heart, like the ballet movement of a plié, is extra careful and delicate when faced with a fragile situation. This film portrays a refreshing perspective of love and lust behind the scenes of the high-level ballet culture.
Oasis, 9min. Mexico, Experimental
Directed by Hugo Hernández Jiménez
An immersive and vibrant journey into the heart of Mexican lucha libre, where Arena Querétaro emerges as a living protagonist, welcoming its spectators and inviting them to delve into the essence of the fight. Through the accounts of local wrestlers, the magic and myth of pancracio intertwine with the culture and emotions of a community that gathers around the ring, rejoicing, cheering, and raging alongside the protagonists of the fight.
Echo of Silence, 14min., Poland, Experimental/Dance
Directed by Mateusz Wawrzyniak, Patrycja Wasiak, Piotr Kuniewski
In a world where everyone is surrounded by many yet feels alone you struggle to stay afloat. Echo of Silence is a story about overcoming inner darkness and finding strength to stand against all odds.
clipping. – Run It, 5min., USA, Music
Directed by Lawrence Klein
Sub Pop Music Video – International Spy Game of Shadow characters and conspiracies set to the clipping. style of cyberpunk future.
Everyone Wants A Tight Pussy, 1min., Canada, Poem
Directed by Sofia Auza
A poetry video about living with chronic vaginal pain.
MATTER, 21min., USA
Directed by Gabe Katz, Mike Murphy
A young woman enters into a journey of self-exploration, discovery, and identity. As she travels through the ephemeral, working through her understanding of self-perception, other travelers within the same universe try to join.
https://www.gabekatz.com/matter
The Sweater, 9min., Canada, Experimental
Directed by Maziyar Khatam
Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.
https://www.instagram.com/funnybonepictures/
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