A playful look at office class structures, power dynamics, and sexual tensions. Through the common vehicle of an elevator, an executive and a bike courier are temporarily trapped and come undone in a confined space.
A series of dancefilms produced by Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video A series of dancefilms produced by Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video
"Aerobia!" explores the absurd phenomenon of wanting to obtain physical and psychological perfection by emulating and parodying the notion of obtaining excellence through mass consumption. With a confluence of music, dance, choreography, and graphic elements, this short film satirises a cultural desire through the late-night infomercial aesthetic.
A transformational dance film that tells the story of a young woman who becomes possessed by spirits and, through this experience, finds her history, her 'self', and her power.
A highly choreographed cinematic piece that raises questions about the way we celebrate the effects of appliances, computers, and the Internet on our bodies.
A comedy about a group of aspiring pilots who go through training drills communicating primarily through body language, incomprehensible sounds and military songs.
Created for The National Ballet of Canada, James Kudelka's The Four Seasons is an abstract ballet exploring the journey of life. Winter is rich with emotional conflict and connection.
The remarkable music of Joni Mitchell forms the narrative backbone for a series of films that charts the emotional arc of a woman's life through the idealism of the sixties, the sexual experimentation of the seventies, the social fears of the eighties, the global turbulence of the nineties, and the promise of the new millennium. Directed by Moze Mossanen, Choreography by Ginette Laurin
Pairing the gestures of contemporary and interpretive dance to this ecstatically high-energy pop song, this film depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behaviour gone awry.
A tribute to the movement and talent of figure skater Petra Burka, this short uses 1960s footage and original music inspired by the performance to create a moving design, etched on ice.
The mundane transforms into the sublime when a man gets trapped in a glass revolving door. The word mandala, loosly translated from Sanskrit, means 'circle' and represents wholeness.
In a studio, with no theatrical adornments, a dancer and musician move from a soft gentle beauty to a taut macho sexuality with the most simple of means: a body and a cello.
A black man and white woman, both nude, engage in a power struggle of opposites: males versus female, hunter versus hunted, black versus white, light versus dark.
Dancers perched on the curves of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in upstage New York merge with the unique architecture and make this man-made landscape sing.
The Riders weaves the poetry of Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen and images of Marino Marini's The Horses and Riders sculpture series in a contemporary dance duet. A tension between two individuals in counterbalance is revealed in a sensuous exploration of strength and vulnerability. Shot simultaneously for two same sex couples, The Riders touches on explorations of gender roles and assumptions.
The last moments of an affair between a man and a woman. Tony Chong's choreography, as well as Martha Wainwright's musical composition, suggest the characters' deep melancholic relationship.
Artists: Julia Aplin, Learie McNicolls, Michael English, Michael Sean Marye, Philip Drube; Director: Michael Downing; Producer: Mihkel Harilaid, Trisha Emerson
At a table set for a luxurious dinner, a physical and emotional exchange unfolds. Someone may be leaving. Someone is trying to stay. Whatever twists and turns their relationship takes, something keeps them coming back to the table.
An ode to a healthy vegetarian lifestyle through a courtship dance between the masculine Tofu and the feminine Greens, who swing to the music of Denzal Sinclaire.