Screening + Artist Talk

The second of two screenings from F-O-R-M’s 2021 Commissioned Artists—the final event of the festival. Followed by a live, ASL-interpreted artist talkback facilitated by Nancy Lee.

Featuring:
Aion - Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd
மனசாட்சி (Heart is a Witness) - Mirusha Yogarajah
Baby Teeth - Emma Morris
Roca Morena - Kyana Lyne + Siam Obregón
Motherland - Alger Liang 梁家傑

Screening + Artist Talk

You’re invited to the opening tour of the Venus Art Gallery! Founded in 2021, the V.A.G. is recognized as one of the most respected and innovative visual arts institutions. The Gallery’s ground-breaking exhibitions showcase both the most progressive young artists of today and the most premium mediocre old masters of yesterday.

Screening + Artist Talk

The first of two screenings from F-O-R-M’s 2021 Commissioned Artists. Followed by a live, ASL-interpreted artist talkback facilitated by Aria Evans.

Featuring:
Wide Stance Dance - Amanda Sum + Justin Calvadores
Booty Freedom - Sebastian Hill-Esbrand
Shouldering Intervals of Desire - Danielle Mackenzie Long
Mountain Duets - Sophie Dow

Movement Workshop

A movement workshop with 2021 Commissioned Artist Sophie Dow, whose film Mountain Duets premieres directly following this session as part of the Commissioned Artists’ Friday Film Screening. Listen, gather, explore the reciprocity of the circle and cycles within our stories, memories from the earth and the imprints within our own bodies. This workshop welcomes folks of all ages to move and reflect as they embody understandings through a few of the origin teachings of Turtle Island.

Screening

To do something “under your own steam” is to take your journey into your own hands. These films all have a level of innate independence, embodying the joys and hardships of uncovering the meaning behind one's own identity.

Featuring:
Flow Tide
In Spirit, In Reality
Leher
Princess
Jontae

Artist Talk

Join us after Tanin Torabi’s film In Plain Sight plays in our X MARKS THE SPOT screening for an intimate conversation with the filmmaker. Tanin speaks to her experience of living in Tehran, Iran where dance is illegal, and how these barriers and restrictions have become sources of inspiration for her. Her talk expands on her journey in discovering dance filmmaking, and how this stemmed out of a necessity to share her movements beyond her home country of Iran.

Screening

This screening will transport you to different locations around the world. Each environment plays an important role in each artist's journey, informing the ways in which they embody their stories. A conversation between space, body and camera.

Featuring:
In Plain Sight عیان
If
can u feel me thru the screen
Isabel Said...
HINGA (BREATHE)

Screening

Off-the-Wall features eccentric and quirky characters that embody expressive interpretations of the self, utilizing narrative and experimental approaches to storytelling. Each story brings you into the intimate spaces of the characters' worlds and invites us to look beyond the ordinary.

Featuring:
Smokestack Lightning
Betsy
It Cries Too Loudly
for fear of (overflow)
Duel

Workshop

In this workshop we use movement, photography, and storytelling to create narrative portraits. Paired with our OFF-THE-WALL screening (5-6PM PDT), participants will meet at 3:30 PM to workshop storyboard techniques as a springboard to learn how to develop dance portraits and characters for the screen. What is your story? How does framing portray your identity? How do I communicate to collaborators about a vision for a film?

Screening

A collection of films that blur the lines between technology and the body. Through editing techniques and dancing with technology, these films explore the fusion of movement and cinematic language to uncover new possibilities and potentials for the body in motion.

Featuring:
SYNC
Salty
CTRL_R
WIRES
In Media Res

Conversation

Movement and filmmaker duos (and past and present F-O-R-M Commissioned Artists) Karmella Benedito De Barros + Lexi Mellish Mingo and Kyana Lyne + Siam Obregón reflect on their interdisciplinary approaches to creating a film, highlighting the process of building a shared collaborative language. As filmmakers and choreographers, how can we start to build a foundation that bridges both mediums? How can we communicate across mediums, and in what ways do they inform one another?