Description

Eight films examine what it means to inhabit a body—through vulnerability, ritual, surveillance, memory, and joy. Together, they reveal how movement transforms isolation into connection and the ordinary into the extraordinary.

DYAD

Katherine Helen Fisher, 2025, USA, 6:23m

World Premiere

A poetic exploration of the resilience and fragility of the human form set against the stark beauty of California's Mojave Desert towns.

the desire of a body toward the center of the earth

Tara Knight & Rebecca Salzer, 2025, USA, 6:25m

NY Premiere

Two dancers move toward connection while navigating the fundamental disorientation of being human.

FRAMES

Claire Marshall, 2025, Australia, 12:23m
US Premiere

Delving into the surveillance, scrutiny, and framing of women in a post-feminist context, this film disaggregates the coherent body so that a whole person (a woman) becomes dissected, fragmented into a composite of datasets.

BOLERO.S (short version)

Mehdi Kerkouche, 2025, France, 4:15m

New York Premiere

Ravel's Bolero transcends generations and cultures. Mehdi Kerkouche brings us his version of BOLERO.S, choreographed in the spirit of his inclusive and visual universe.

The Crossing

Mike Tyus, 2025, China, 13:55m

New York Premiere

At the meeting of four roads stands a house caught between worlds. Its halls echo with the last rites of mortals, each soul bound to a fragment of their ending. Here they wait, guardians and prisoners alike, until the gods decide their crossing.

Stuck In The Middle

Aubyn Armstrong, 2025, USA, 4:25m

A nostalgic short dance film set in the early 1970s following four young girls stuck at home during a record-breaking heat wave. As boredom turns to creativity, they dance through their house with playful energy, transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary.

SCRY

Paul Flè, 2025, France, 4:35m

New York Premiere

Two women, cocooned in their private world, explore the transformative potential of repetition, the power of union, and the perpetuity of ritual.

Spoken Movement Family Honour

Daniel Gurton, 2025, United Kingdom, 9:48m

New York Premiere

In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. A heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.