I wanted to be me

Walks with Me(fi)

Old woman looks outside her apartment window and sees her life passing, or dancing, in front of her eyes.

Húmus(en)

A videodance short-film of the avant-garde / experimental dance group of the same name based on the book "Húmus" (released in 1917) by Raul Brandão.

Shadow / Self(en)

Shadow / Self is a film project that combines dance, fashion and music to explore the darker side of the feminine psyche. A story of human struggle told with movement, beauty and light.

The Gold Wedding(fi)

An old couple doesn’t talk to each other anymore. They express their hatred through dance.

I Play Dead(xx)

A woman visits a deserted old industrial building. Once there, she encounters two children. They lead her deeper inside the building and closer to their dark secret. What started as an innocent game, has suddenly become an odd ballet.

When the Night Falls(en)

The dance film When the Night Falls tells the story of a woman fleeing the horrors of a collapsing society in the near future. Along the way, she encounters people on whose trust her entire future depends on.

Utanför(sv)

Cecilia dances inside a forest. She moves in front of a film crew who direct her movements.

Reconstruction(xx)

Reconstruction tells about a certain night in 1982, reconstructed in 2020 by the people who lived it through together. The film combines dance, drama and documentary, but most of all is a story of a friendship of a boy and a girl, and how jolly situations can turn sour and how, even though close, friends do not share same experiences – and that can have an effect on their friendship.

The Threshing Floor(en)

Set to a score by Mauricio Pauly (The Threshing Floor), multiple microphones, choreographic sequences, scores, and projected images, we are enveloped into a multimodal experience of two bodies in space.

The Little Marchioness(gl)

A video-dance adaptation of the short story "A Marquesiña" (The Little Marchioness), from the book "Cousas" (Things), by Castelao.

Surface Waves(en)

A wordless woman rises to confront herself through a dance of self-liberation. Featuring choreography and dance by Carolyn Pavlik, along with an original soundtrack by Robin Guthrie, the film evokes a mystical story-line of struggle and release.

Piyesa (Piece)(en)

An ambitious dancer hallucinates her other self while practicing the piece.

Stillness in the Wave(en)

The documentary portrayed one of the most established dance companies in Hong Kong which has a history of over four decades. With a tradition of blending Chinese dance and ballet together in the training, the dance company has set sail to re-evaluate its artistic essence by adapting new physical disciplines and philosophy, picking up different cultural traces, meditation and Chinese martial arts. Through monologues of the company members, the film unveiled their fears, self-doubts, and findings in their quest to refine their dance forms and express their cultural roots. It's an uncertain journey towards the cultivation of inner peace and the essence of movement and stillness.

Distant Nixa(en)

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance of VHS video. Their bodies, sometimes two and others four, are always connected with a rope, influenced by white noise retro interference, sound scratches and pauses. They approach each other until they connect and then finally completely disappear, nullifying the distance between them. The reverse movement of these similar bodies-idols aims to compose a dance of the two and the one, our close and more distant self and to reach to the void in between them.

Still Awake(en)

Still Awake is a film that explores resistance and stasis through the consciousness of the body movement and the stillness of a woman in bed.

La Timidité des Cimes(xx)

Bye(en)

BYE (AJÖ), a new dance film, is choreographed and directed by acclaimed Swedish choreographer Mats Ek. " About a woman (Sylvie Guillem) who takes leave of a certain stage in her life. It is a conversation that she has with herself that leads to new experiences.

Someday I Will Become a Rock(en)

We see a rock. It transcends languages and cultures. It traverses time and space. Perhaps it has its own nature and memories.

Follow the Fleet(en)

When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Yakana 1(es)

Dance film made in Arica with the Tobas Internacional Gigantes Alados group.