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Stabat Mater

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Marina Sagona

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United States | 2021

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Runtime/Duración 0:05:08

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Stabat Mater is a work about motherhood and separation.
It is built upon the repetition, for fifteen times, of an eighteen seconds film.
The nude portrait of the woman, the artist herself, shown in the film is a painting by the artist’s former husband, Bernardo Siciliano.
The audio of the film is the mix of a dialogue in Italian, between the artist’s daughter and the artist’s former husband, with the first movement of Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
The text of the Italian dialogue translated into English is superimposed over the footage in a gigantic sized type which grows smaller with each repetition until it disappears, while the voices subside and the music takes over.

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Répétitions

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Yann les Jours

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France | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:03:43

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RÉPÉTITIONS is a french expression that names the act to repeat something, it’s also the word used for rehearsals.
2 dancers, a choreographer and the director play their own role in this short movie showing a team in the act of making. Micro and meta directions given by the choreographer and the director are being appropriated by dancers, making those indications an expression of their own. And, in between the execution of those tasks is emerging a short term system of affects and common energies that paths the way to a deeper mutual field of understandings.

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Spiralling Into Desire

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Roohi Dixit

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India | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:15:00

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The Desire Project explores how we hold desire in our body. Of the firm belief that reclaiming and having agency around our desire is a path towards true empowerment, the project invites us to imagine what is possible for the community when eros is equally prioritised as logos.
The latest iteration of the Desire project is a Movement x Film collaboration titled Spiralling into Desire. This film traces a woman’s descent into her deep body to access and retrieve her true autonomy.
The film also draws parallels from the first epic poem ‘The descent of Innana’ which narrates the story of the Sumerian goddess Innana’s descent into the underworld, to visit her sister Ershikegel – the queen of the dead. Separated, the two sisters represent the Madonna/Whore split, a dangerous consequence of patriarchy. The descent begins the journey towards healing this split.

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Elles s’élèvent, ces forteresses éponges | They rise, these sponge fortresses

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Guillaume Vallée

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Canada | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:07:13

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The cameraless animated short ”they rise, these sponge fortresses” is made from a 35 mm trailer of the feature film ”Water Lilies” (2007) by Céline Sciamma. Experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée explores and questions his sensory memory as a teenager, partially lost. This process of resuscitating buried experiences and forgotten memories is carried by the materiality of 35 mm film, the nature of the images filmed and the interventions of the filmmaker painting and scratching the film emulsion directly. In this reverse journey, the memory-images, the affects reveal their plasticity, their imperfections, their chaos, their sensuality and their significance. The soundtrack is by Stephanie Castonguay and the texts by author Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay.

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Language Unknown

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Janelle VanderKelen

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United States | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:06:10

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This film embraces plant sentience as fact and speculates how beings of the vegetal variety might approach interspecies communication with humans (who are far more sensorially limited). Leaves, mycelium, and roots playfully examine how humans experience the world, and the (supposedly) silent watchers consider what language those swift blurs of human might possibly understand.

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futile/gestures

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Yolanda Tianyi-Shao (韶天怡), Aaron Holmes

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United States | 2022

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Runtime/Duración 0:07:44

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Two dancers entangled—conversation to conflict to dissolution. / A hand-drawn animated film for which all the frames were drawn simultaneously by 100 people over the course of a 30-minute performance.

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