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No Less Asian
Melissa Lam (Vancouver, BC) YOUTH
Duration: 1:36
“No Less Asian” explores the struggles and triumphs of being a 2nd Generation Asian-Canadian, portrayed through the medium of dance.
In honor of this year's AANHPI History Month in May, I wanted to showcase the rich diversity of the Asian-Canadian experience through the art of dance. As a Chinese-Canadian who grew up in Singapore and later moved to Vancouver, I faced my own challenges in navigating my cultural identity. Today, I feel more grounded and embrace my multicultural heritage. Dance provides a vibrant way to celebrate our unique stories, connect with our roots, and build a shared understanding with others.
Director, Editor, Mix Media Artist: Melissa Lam
Producer: Ann Dinh
DP, Cam Op: Stefan Feldmann
Post Supervisor: Bronwyn Davies
Sound Designer: Adam Johnson
Colorist: Tyson Rider
Designer: Andy Burdin
Kite
Virginia Duivenvoorden (Vancouver, BC) EMERGING
Vancouver Premiere
Duration: 6:03
Content warning: Thunder and lighting
This piece was developed by Virginia as an interdisciplinary piece. The dance was choreographed in collaboration with the performer. The film is directed by Jerry Trieus. The performance centers around a character who has a mission to experience flight through kiting. The journey is filled with challenges leading to a transformation from the kite as the object of flight to the human body as the dancer achieves a sense of flight through movement.
The piece included audience engagement through workshops to create art for the film. The art projects are windsocks created by the community. The art offers a more multi- sensory experience to the dances and also serves as additional access points to the choreography. The use of tulle is repeated from Virginia’s previous works investigating the fabric and a prop reminiscent of a cloud.
Choreographer: Virginia Duivenvoorden
Director: Jerry Trieus
Performer and Assistant Choreographer: Brynne Harper
Composer: Sarah Blair
Supported by: The Dance Centre
In association with: PHT Creative Hub
Judas Icarus Twists His Wrist
Kerr Holden (Vancouver, BC) EMERGING
Duration: 13:30
Content warning: Violence, images of bone related injuries, blood, strobing images.
When Vancouver based pro-wrestler Judas Icarus sustains a dramatic injury, he must go through the arduous process of recovery so he can continue his practice in staged combat. This small portrait of Judas Icarus is expressed not through a continuity of events, but through the human touch, forms of light, and repeated movements which surround his recovery.
The body houses every experience we endure. With "Judas Icarus Twists His Wrist", I aimed to make an experimental action film which explores this concept through the sensorial experience projected light, flickering images, and moving pictures can deliver to a body.
Director, Producer, Editor: Kerr Holden
Starring: Judas Icarus, Sho Blunderfield, Travis Williams
Cinematographers: Suz Friesen, Jessica Johnson, Ryan Ermacora, Kerr Holden
Camera Assistant: Sidney Gordon
Assistant Directors: Phoebe Parsons, Karan Sandhu
Sound Design and Re-recording Mix: Mark Dolmont
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.