Still from “Floating Departures” by Shannon Cuykendall
In partnership with grunt gallery & Simon Fraser University
Location: Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen - Intersection of Broadway & Kingsway, Vancouver, on the side of the Independent Building (168 BC-1A, Vancouver, BC V5T 3J2) and on screens around SFU Downtown, Burnaby and Surrey Campuses
FREE EVENT
Screens of all shapes and sizes have become a part of our daily lives — encounters with a screen have become inevitable. Our Public Screens program is one of the newest additions to the festival, urging you to look up and beyond the screens at your fingertips, observe your surroundings, and engage with movement-on-screen as you move through your day.
In partnership with Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen (Grunt Gallery) and SFU, we invite you to find, pass-by, witness and enjoy a selection of vibrant films throughout the festival week. Stay for a minute, for half an hour or come back the next day.
If you see these screens, we invite you to snap a pic, or take a video and tag @formvancouver with #FORMvancouver2022
AION - Sevrin Emancen-Boyd (Canada) EMERGING
FLOATING DEPARTURE - Shannon Cuykendall (Canada) EMERGING
SHARDS OF SELF - Roya Pishvaei (Canada) YOUTH - World Premiere
FORTHCOMING - Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (Canada) YOUTH
CEREBRAL SILENCE - Julia Ozdych (United States) YOUTH
IN-CONTRO - Roberto Cherubini (Italy) YOUTH - Canadian Premiere
ABBIOSIS - Lucía García Paz (Spain) EMERGING - Vancouver Premiere
MAY THE BEST LOSER WIN - Cheline Lacroix (Canada) EMERGING - Canadian Premiere
WIDE STANCE DANCE - Amanda Sum, Justin Calvadores (Canada) EMERGING
BUSH WAACKERS AND PADDY - Clarence Tang (Canada) EMERGING
AION
Sevrin Emancen-Boyd | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 6:27
AION refers to a concept developed by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze which denotes "the indefinite time of the event, the floating line that knows only speeds and continually divides that which transpires into an already-there that is at the same time not-yet-here, a simultaneous too-late and too-early". It refers to a time-sense that is outside of Chronos or the chronological, linear, everyday measure of time which both organizes and is organized by "normality". These twin concepts demonstrate that time is anything but neutral, and that it organizes our perception of reality and our visions of the future.
The film AION plays with the conceptual disruption of Chronos by molding together both forward and reversed movement while creating an ulterior continuity between night and day. It is a dance that refuses the constructed time-sense of the everyday, one that is instilled in us by capital and has remained mostly imperceptible for many until COVID-19. As we edge closer to normality, AION serves to remind the viewer of the possibility of constructing time and ultimately our lives outside of "the normal" that drove us here in the first place.
Credits:
Director, Performer: Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd
Cinematographer: Alinar Dapilos
Sound Design: Amine Bouzaher
FLOATING DEPARTURES
Shannon Cuykendall | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 8:54
FLOATING DEPARTURES, an independent dance film and meditation, is a response to life during the pandemic. It was created remotely during lockdown, January-May 2021, and recorded with smartphones. Through dance movement, poetry, painterly styles, and sound, we seek to find meaning in an ever-emerging illogical world and take the audience on a journey through multiple layers and abstractions of reality. Using everyday objects (e.g., balloons and bubble wrap) and AI art systems, we transform our everyday spaces and demonstrate how technologically-mediated dance collaboration can provide a new lens for understanding our body and movement beyond physical barriers.
Credits:
Video/Movement Director, Editor, Sound Designer: Shannon Cuykendall
Performers, Movement/Text Creators, Recorders: Shannon Cuykendall, Alexandra Pickrell, and Roya Pishvaei, AI Painterly Styles
Poetry Director: Steve DiPaola
SHARDS OF SELF
Roya Pishvaei | CANADA | YOUTH | CANADIAN PREMIERE
Duration: 7:45
Authentic self-reflection takes vulnerability, but it is necessary. SHARDS OF SELF explores the bitter-sweet nature of examining one’s self-image; where do our value and worth come from? There is both pain and beauty that comes with answering this question, and it is so vital to have others who will walk alongside you in the most challenging moments.
This film is an interdisciplinary collaboration by dance, film, and music students at Simon Fraser University. Featuring a 90% POC cast and crew, "shards of self" was conceptualized and choreographed by Roya Pishvaei, with artistic contributions from Mikela Vuorensivu and Andrea Isea Galindo.
Credits:
Choreographer, Dancer: Roya Pishvaei
Dancer, Collaborator: Mikela Vuorensivu, Andrea Isea Galindo
Director: Kevin Jin Kwan Kim, Ren Yue
Producer: Cathy Huynh
Cinematographer, Editor: Peter Lee
Cinematographer: Lauren Yim
Composer: Aysha Dulong
Editor: Niall Creegan
FORTHCOMING
Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 | CANADA | YOUTH
Duration: 5:11
FORTHCOMING explores how the glorification of overstimulation and overconsumption will shape and transform our bodies in 300 years from now. This work is a collaboration between Sarah and the machine learning process (VOS system). This film centers on speed, dynamism and restlessness of the modern body. Sarah is grateful for the support of ArtStarts Ignite and The Dance Centre in the early stages of this work.
Credits:
Choreographer, Performer, Editor: Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴
Music: "Among Us pt 4,9", remixed by Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴
CEREBRAL SILENCE
Julia Ozdych | UNITED STATES | YOUTH
Duration: 2:56
CEREBRAL SILENCE is a film about overstimulation, overthinking, and the challenge of finding stillness in our realities. It is difficult to stay in touch with ourselves when we are surrounded by chaos and swimming in a multitude of thoughts everyday. How can we resist this cognitive brain and find a state of silence? Our daily routines and predictable experiences can be useful in moderation, but if we can limit thoughts and float into a space of allowing, then maybe new and exciting occurrences can take place. We will drive ourselves crazy if we do not feed our bodies with silence.
Credits:
Director, Dancer, Editor: Julia Ozdych
Videographer: Cari Ann Shim Sham
IN-CONTRO
Roberto Cherubini | ITALY | YOUTH | CANADIAN PREMIERE
Duration: 3:10
IN-CONTRO is a project that arises from the desire to investigate the relationships and correlations between the concept of space and time. The aim is to offer a vision of reality that assumes an illogical logic, for which two same bodies share the same space at the same time. The idea aims to provoke reflections upon the illusion of experiencing a shared and concrete reality online, where what we perceive as tangible is rather surreal, as it is subjected to personal interpretation and variations of space and time.
Credits:
Director: Roberto Cherubini
Cinematographer: Roberto Cherubini
Choreographers: Ilaria Ignesti and Roberto Cherubini
Dancers: Ilaria Ignesti and Roberto Cherubini
Editor: Roberto Cherubini
Music: Dark Anthem (live in Paris) by Apparat
ABBIOSIS
Lucía García Paz | SPAIN | EMERGING | VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Duration: 9:59
How many realities can coexist in the same place, without ever realising each other?
Which are our limits to perceive the world around us?
A silent invasion that only can be noticed when it’s too late.
Two parallel realities that advance, ignoring each other.
ABBIOSIS shows us an imperceptible, inaudible and invisible being that expands through our world (without limits). The movie uses cinematographic and contemporary dance language to guide us to different places that, even if they are known to us, invite the viewer to look at them from another perspective. A mirror that offers us multiple realities, making us wonder if we know which is the real.
Credits:
Director, Choreographer: Lucía García
Dancers: Edurne Salas, Ainhoa Otero, Berta Pascual, Judith Capdevila
Producer: Andrea Vilches, Lluïsa Puig
Cinematographer: Xavier Julià
Sound designer: Marc Vilaseca
MAY THE BEST LOSER WIN
Cheline Lacroix | CANADA | EMERGING | CANADIAN PREMIERE
Duration: 7:55
Judith Halberstam proposes in his book The Queer Art of Failure, that “[failure] could be the source of misery and humiliation…it also leads to a kind of ecstatic exposure of the contradictions of a society obsessed with meaningless competition”. MAY THE BEST LOSER WIN subverts our conventional definitions of success and failure, characterising uncontrollable events as absurd, unseen opponents that play both with and against us in the game of life. Throughout the film, tribulations are met with curiosity and intrigue, losing is celebrated, and the preconceived rules of winning are twisted to become a rapturous, inspired failure.
Credits:
Choreographer: Chéline Lacroix
Artistic Direction: Chéline Lacroix
Dancers: Mathieu Herard, Madelleine Bellefeuille, Solene Bernier
Cinematographer: Louis-Philippe Michaud
Montage: Louis-Philippe Michaud, Anny Gauthier
Composer: Al Haytame Farsane - Monsieur Madame
Assistant Production: Noam Auger
Mentor: Alexandre Morin
WIDE STANCE DANCE
Amanda Sum, Justin Calvadores | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 4:32
Wide Stance Dance addresses Asian Canadian identity with the objective to confront stereotypes, internalized belittlement and the sense of estrangement within the framework of whiteness. Two humorous clowns overcome the challenges felt within their identities of race, queerness and general awkwardness. Directed, choreographed and performed by Amanda Sum and Justin Calvadores, Wide Stance Dance aims to overcome distorted ideas of self and traits in character that are conceived through the experience of being defined as other.
Credits:
Directors, Choreographers, Dancers: Amanda Sum and Justin Calvadores
Cinematographer, Editor: Jo Hirabayashi
Music: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Colourist: So Young Park
Crew: Dan Loan
Special Thanks
Sarah Wong and Linda Sum
THE BUSHWAACKERS AND PADDY SHOW
Clarence Tang | CANADA | EMERGING
Duration: 1:43
Conceptualized while practicing vogueing* at Robson Square behind a bush, The Bushwaackers and Paddy Show features Banana and Strawberry as they try their hand at gardening. Armed with an unwavering enthusiasm, and a good tune to dance to, they show us that there is always a good time to be had with the right friends by your side!
*Please note that although we were practicing voguing when we had this idea, this video features waacking, not vogueing. If you want to understand the difference, we encourage you to take your local waacking or vogueing class! Knowledge is power!
Credits:
Choreography/Concept: Clarence Tang
Strawberry Dancer: Rina Pellerin
Banana Dancer: Antonio Somera
Paddy Operator: Kaylea Mercer
Editing & Graphic Design: Rina Pellerin