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.

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?