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BEYOND THE BLACKOUT, 9min., Australia
Directed by Setareh Mehrdad
As an Iranian choreographer living away from my homeland, I created this dance film in response to the theme of “home.” For me, home is Iran: a place of memory, love, grief, and resistance.
https://www.instagram.com/setareh_mehrdad7/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-beyond-the-blackout
MY SKIN, 3min., USA
Directed by Daniel Han-Shiang Young
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-my-skin
POI (Primary Ovarian Insufficiency), 8min., Australia
Directed by Zoee Marsh
Premature menopause at 28 — a movement film tracing seven years of unanswered symptoms, where the whispers of the body sustained balance through the unknown, until it was diagnosed at 35.
https://www.instagram.com/zoeemoves/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-poi
GRAPPLING GRACE, 20min,. UK
Directed by Alexander Kiehl, Misha Novak
A jazz-dancing Iranian-British wrestler opens a healing dojo inside a church in Bristol, armed with a belief that wrestling might just save the world.
https://www.instagram.com/alex_kiehl/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-grappling-grace
Death by Passive Aggressive Interpretive Dance, 11min., Ireland
Directed by Dylan Delaney
In a land where interpretive dance is a religion, dancers must not commit blasphemy against the Dance Deity. Dance dogma decrees that blasphemers be killed…by interpretive dance.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-death-by-passive-aggressive-inter
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