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CUT THE CAKE OR TAKE THE CUT CAKE
Lauren Brady, Thomas Kassian
What will Sue do when she is overcome with anxiety as she meets the ultimate dilemma at the office birthday party? Will she just cut the cake? Or take the cut cake and RUN.
Director & Editor - Thomas Kassian
Choreographer & Writer - Lauren Brady
Sue: Lauren Brady
Office Workers: Candice Holloway, Hamna Tahir, Roxie Malone, Brynn Kassian, Douglas Macdonald, Gavin Wilkes
Production Assistant: Zachary Strom
Colourist: Cameron McCutcheon
Special thanks to: Vertical City and Creative Cottage.
SÓNG XÔ (BREAKING WAVES)
Solara Thanh-Binh Dang
Strobe Warning
At the border of land and water, the ghost of a young Vietnamese woman moves through the echoes of her country’s trauma, seeking solace in the ocean's caress.
Sóng Xô is a collaboration between mother and daughter, a healing dialogue between generations.
Writer, Director, Performer: Solara Thanh-Binh Dang
Co-Director: Ella Nguyen
Choreographer: Solara Thanh-Binh Dang and Kim-Nhung Harris
Producer: Nic Altobelli
Director of Photography: Belen Garcia
Vocalist: Tanya Thanh Dang
Composer: Jay Shun
Editor: Lawrence Le Lam & Solara Thanh-Binh Dang
Gaffer: Austin Kwok
Grip: Dylan Prendergast
1st AD: Lesha Vescio
1st AC: Kelly Chow
2nd AC/Swing: Siska
Production Sound Mixer: Alex Shamku
Key Hair & Makeup: Julia Ho
Stills Photography: Chris Carvajal
Colourist: Cameron McCutcheon
Thank you to my mother for collaborating on this project with me with an open mind and heart. Thank you to all my collaborators, friends, family, and the local businesses who helped make this project happen!
PROWL
Ankita Alemona, Raam Kumar
PROWL delves into the journey of two huntresses' determination, fragility and willingness to fight. With slow agile crawls and fast decisive attacks, they weave intricate webs to enchant their prey, revealing the immense power, readiness and emotional preparation needed to pursue the hunt. The immense uncertainty as to whether they themselves will become prey pushes them, again and again, to prove their ability to survive in a brutal world. This piece thus visually and somatically depicts the various realities of the burden of becoming and staying ‘The Huntress.’
Director & Choreographer: Raam Kumar
Concept by: Ankita Alemona
Dancers & Collaborators: Ankita Alemona, Johanna A. Rodrigues
Executive Producer: Nautanki Creations
Creative Producers: Kalaathmika Productions in collaboration with: The New Normal
Director of Photography and Editor: Priyanshi Vasani
Composer & Sound Designer: Padmanabhan J
Grips & Lights: D&A Productions (Goa)
Lightmen: Masoom Shaklen, Sandeep Kumar
Driver: Sunil Yadav
Filmed in: Goa, India
Special thank you to: CVN Kalari, Trivandrum, KalariGram Temple of Kalaripayattu & Ayurveda, Hindustan, Kalari Sangam, Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research, Aaloka Mehndiratta, Nimmy Raphael, K Sarveshan, Anasuya Sengupta
A CONVERSATION IN RHYTHM
Kevin Jin Kwan Kim, Jullianna Oke, Seth Kitamura
A CONVERSATION IN RHYTHM is an experimental movement film which centers around a tap dancer and a drummer in a jam session. The exchanges made between these artists in an improvised jam parallels qualities to a verbal conversation; the introduction, questioning, challenging, balancing, and most importantly, the trusting of one another. The film aims to display their unspoken dialogue as what it is, a conversation. Using traditional dialogue coverage, A CONVERSATION IN RHYTHM will accentuate the varying intensity of the artists’ movements and rhythm on film to express a scene of communication.
Director: Kevin Jin Kwan Kim
Tap Dancer: Jullianna Oke
Drummer: Seth Kitamura
Director of Photography: Isaac Sanchez
Gaffer/Grip: Jacob Haldane
Sound Mixer: Ayana Madi
1st AC: Apurv Swami
2nd AC: Vilma Ek
B Cam Op: Deniz Somuncuoglu
We'd love to thank our mentor Ben Brown for his guidance throughout the project as well as the F-O-R-M team for creating this opportunity!
THE MEETING PLACE
Juan Imperial | CANADA | YOUTH | WORLD PREMIERE
The meeting place is a spiritual celebration, gathering and ceremony honouring the QTBIPOC dance cultures of vogue and whacking. The meeting place offers the protest and medicine of these sacred dances to all audiences, and hopes to reflect the beauty of queerness to all queer and trans youth.
The Meeting Place is an archival recording of three work-in-progress solos reflecting Juan Imperial's awakening into their queer, femme identity. They weave connections between land, spirituality, and ancestry with queer identity and share their ideas through writing, dance, and ritual that has brought them home to the knowledge that queerness is divine.
Director & Performer: Juan Imperial
Dancer: Joanne Park
Director(s) of Photography: Jun PoChun Chen & Kenny Welsh, Luis Villarreal
Music: “Chrysalis Wrath” by X/O
Editor: Kaya Tsurumi
Makeup Artist: Xander Terrin Chen
Mentors: Nancy Lee, Simran Sachar, Sophia Gamboa
Special Thanks: Erin Lum, Keiichiro Hara, Joanne Park, Mariel Olaguer, White Lotus, Ralph Escamillan, Sophia Wolfe, & Vancouver’s Vogue and Waacking Scene
F-O-R-M is based in so-called Vancouver, in what is colonially known as Canada, on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. F-O-R-M continues to reflect on and bring attention to connection to bodies, land and movement through filmmaking, documentation and storytelling. We are grateful to share and witness these stories together while inspiring movement towards positive change, wherever you may be.