biographies: Programme one

Marianna Mørkøre, Rannvá Káradóttir

Rammatik is a Faroese film duo consisting of Rannvá Káradóttir and Marianna Mørkøre. Previous work include both film productions and live performances exploring dance in various contexts and cross disciplinary works. They have developed a distinctive movement vocabulary on screen, with a unique timeless quality where the moving image is the foundation of their minimalistic aesthetics.

Laurens Neels

Laurens Neels is a Dutch film director based in Amsterdam, known for his visually striking narratives. His work contains themes of beauty in contrasting, atmospheric worlds .

KATOAVA Collective

KATOAVA collective is a multidisciplinary platform for young artists working in environmental art. We approach environments through artistic means, understanding them not only as physical spaces but also as essential spiritual resources. Our goal has become to defend areas at risk of destruction by preserving them as part of our art.

Our expression reflects our personal experiences and is built around values that are important to us. We create aesthetic and delicate art with meaningful content. KATOAVA means disappearing.

Sara Jordan

Sara Jordan is a Danish choreographer, director, and cinematographer working at the intersection of movement, image, and identity. Her artistic language is rooted in street dance styles such as hip hop and house, interwoven with African-American cultural influences and shaped by a minimalist choreographic aesthetic.

A versatile dancer, Sara’s first love has always been the foundations of old-school hip hop and house dance. She began her journey in 1998 within the freestyle and battle communities across Europe, and has since lived and worked as a dancer in Los Angeles and London.

At the heart of her practice is a belief in dance as a tool for storytelling, community, and transformation. Her work invites audiences to feel, think, and move differently.

Katie Honan

Katie is a writer, creator and performer from Waterford, Ireland. Her focus is to craft characters representing societal eccentricities, often through use of distinct physicality and movement. Recently, she developed her practice through the lens of neuroscience (supported by an Arts Council Bursary) and took residency with her new play ‘The Far Away Sun’ using binaural technology at Dublin Theatre Festival’s Slingshot (in partnership with Creative Europe).

In 2021, she received a Playwright & Producer Grant from Waterford City & County Council to develop her debut play How To Fall Flat On Your Face and since that time secured Garter Lane Arts Centre as her production partner and been awarded an Arts Council Project Award to stage the play in 2022. The play premiered on International Women’s Day and won ‘Best New Play’ and ‘Best Female Performance’ in The News & Star Green Room Awards, and returned to Dublin’s Project Arts Centre (2023).

Katie’s radio play HURL was an award winner in the RTÉ Radio 1, PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards. HURL is a comedy drama centred around Waterford hurling — produced and aired by RTÉ (2023).

She was awarded an Arts Council Project Award (2023), to write and develop a new one-man play inspired by Lord of the Flies — under the mentorship of Micheal West. She completed residencies in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and ‘A Little Room’ @ Waterford’s Garter Lane Arts Centre working with Laura Honan (Dramaturge), Colin Campbell (Actor) and Rachel Ní Bhraonáin (Movement Director).

In 2024, Katie was awarded an Arts Council Bursary Award to develop her movement practice, through the lens of neuroscience — collaborating with Sue Mythen, Megan Kennedy and Louise Lowe. Supported by the South East Technology University, Katie shot a new short movement film at the SETU Arena, using sports pitches and exploring the manipulation of a ticking clock.

In 2025, Katie will be working with Irish Theatre Institute, as part of their renowned ‘Six in the Attic’ Programme, and taking residency in Dublin Theatre Festival's Slingshot (in partnership with Creative Europe).

This September, she will shoot her new short film 'Swinging June' about how dance can enhance the movement of people living with Parkinson's (WCCC Screenwriter and Producer Award).

Raine Roberts

Raine is a photographer, filmmaker, sculptor, and educator from Chicago, IL. Her work studies themes of repetition, structure, the natural environment, and the body. She uses techniques that involve enacting the same movements over and over again. From this, a shape takes form after repeated actions and what does this look like on the body? Her work heavily involves exploring through lines of internal and external experiences.

She holds a BFA in Film Productions and BA in Communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2019) where she received the Presidential Scholarship. After working in documentary editing, she went on to study at the International Center of Photography (2023) receiving the Director’s Fellowship. Since graduation, Raine has exhibited her works in solo exhibitions with Westlab+Gallery and APStudioBk; group exhibitions with WORTHLESS STUDIOS, Haus Am See in Switzerland, VisualAIDS, and Brooklyn Film Camera. Her work has been profiled in The Woven Tale Press, El Universal, MuséeMagazine, Este País, Bushwick Daily, and BK Reader. She has held residencies with Woodward Residency and as the Photographer in Residence for the FREE FILM PROJECT. In 2024, Raine was commissioned by Mono No Aware and Westlab + Gallery to make a film on 16mm for the 18th Biennial Festival of Cinema Arts. Her films have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, Mono No Aware, Saint Bimbo Film Church, Millennium Film, and FlickersNYC. Raine is a member of the photography group SmallTable Collective and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

Cailin Manning, Nojus SetKauskas

Cailin Leigh is a choreographer, filmmaker, director and educator. With works spanning the stage, immersive theater, and the screen, she enjoys creating works which portray the spectrum of the human condition. Her film Going Down (2022) has screened globally, won Best Film at LA Dance Film Festival and Best of Comedy at Utah Dance Film Festival. She holds a Master's in Screendance from London Contemporary Dance School where she now teaches. Her notable choreographic works include Blended Hues (2015), From Four to Two (2016), & the way i see it (2018), alongside commissions for Seven Dance Company, Found Movement Group, & Found Youth.

Nojus is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and editor. His works are concerned with architecture, urban development, gentrification, large housing association impact on housing market and local residents wellbeing. He has made several short documentary films about architectural heritage community in Kaunas, Lithuania (Modernist Community), gentrification process in Thamesmead (Peabody Houses Nobody) London and photo-journalistic stories in Westbury estate and Lambeth.

Mervi Junkkonen, Mia Malviniemi

Mervi Junkkonen (born 1975) is a Finnish documentary filmmaker and film editor based in Uppsala, Sweden. She studied film at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her debut film as a director was Barbeiros (2001), which won the First Appearance prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2002. She has directed several award winning documentary films and worked as an editor on numerous documentary and fiction films. Mervi has received the Jussi Prize (the Finnish "Oscar") for her editing of the feature films The Visitor (2009), They Have Escaped (2014) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019), respectively. In recent years she has also begun working with video art and dance films.

Finnish choreographer Mia Malviniemi (MA) has been working with dance art since 1996, when she graduated as a choreographer from the dance department of the Theatre Academy in Finland.
She has produced tens of dance pieces during her career and has also worked with theatre, opera and
contemporary circus. Malviniemi is one of the founding members of the dance group Malviniemi Company, of which she acts as
artistic director.