Feed My Soul
Artur Gevorgyan
United States
Well, he had only one day to just go and do nothing on the beach when someone just fell into his life from the sky, shaked the hell out of him and left? Really?
UK Premiere
The Way You Make Me Feel
Maria Fatima Sastre
Argentina
The Way You Make Me Feel is a dance Microfilm that combines movement and conversation to explore the experience making art in colonialist countries.
In The Middle
Saba Khatami
Iran
In the Middle is a short dance film captured in the streets of Tehran and London, exploring the emotional experience of living between two worlds. In Tehran, where dance is prohibited, movement becomes an act of quiet resistance—a gesture of freedom within restriction. In London, dance is free, but this freedom can feel anonymous and isolating.
The film traces a dialogue of the body with two cities, capturing how it navigates urban spaces and reflects the tension between belonging and dislocation. Through shifting cityscapes and expressive movement, it explores the internal push and pull of being caught between past and present, home and elsewhere. It is a personal reflection on what it means to exist “in between,” where nothing fully fits, but everything leaves a mark.
World Premiere
DESEO
Anna Paola Bacalov, Marco Rinaldi, Jonny Rosch
Italy
A miniature
Shadowy shreds of my story reflected in the light of gesture
and sound of voice.
UK Premiere
Organized Hope
Amy Seiwert
United States
Inspired by Kintsugi, the traditional Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer mixed with gold and the belief that something can be more beautiful through the stresses endured. Seiwert asked herself: coming out of an era that broke many of us, can we be re-formed? Can we create something both stronger and more beautiful?
Organized Hope features dancer James Gilmer with choreography by Amy Seiwert, a libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and an original score by Daniel Bernard Roumain. Created in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Estabrook and Stop-Motion Artist Aaron Kierbel.
UK Premiere
FRAUDULATIONS
Caroline Grimprel
France
Sonia works for a cubicle rental company.
Her passionless job chains her to a soulless screen where she mechanically executes tasks under the trance of neon lights, lost in the shadows of corporate servitude. When a fraudulent call triggers the void of her work station, Sonia's pent-up frustration erupts, unleashing a storm of chaos, It's the breaking point she's been waiting for.
Fraudulations humorously explores her descent into madness, through the endless, winding corridors of her workplace propelled by an uplifting soundtrack.
UK Premiere
BIRDS
John Degois
France
Birds is a short digital choreographic piece imagined thought directed by John Degois. With this piece he tries to transpose live performance into film. He thus chooses to make a sequence shot in order to keep the notion of "live", slow motion to allow the spectator to have time to watch where he wants. He also breaks the perspective by not necessarily centering the main action in the middle of the image. Against a background of melancholy, Birds evokes a time when the question of freedom did not arise.
From the archive LISDF 2021