Category: PEARLS 22

Hofesh Shechter’s iconic stage work Political Mother explodes onto the screen as an UNPLUGGED, unapologetic and exhilarating new short film. From behind the lens, Shechter brings Battersea Arts Centre’s imposing architecture and intimate spaces centre stage, immersing audiences within a fragile world of raw emotions as a group of individuals struggle against the complex structures […]

• #Title: POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut
• #Director: Hofesh Shechter
• #Choreography: Hofesh Shechter
• #Production: Hofesh Shechter Company
• #Country of Production: United Kingdom
• #Year of Production: 2021
• #Duration: 00:36:12
• #Dance and Acting: Jared Brown, Jack Butler, Chieh-Hann Chang, Evelyn Hart, Charles Heinrich, Evelien Jansen, Rosalia Panepinto, Jill Goh Su-Jen, Niek Wagenaar
• #Camera: Hofesh Shechter / Consultant Director of Photography, Sebastian Cort
• #Editing: Todd MacDonald
• #Music: Hofesh Shechter - Musical Collaborators: Nell Catchpole, Yaron Engler
• #Webpage: hofesh.co.uk
• #Trailer: vimeo.com/566157182

Flatland has been made based on a book of the same name written by Edwin Abbott in 1884.
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• #Title: Flatland
• #Director: Alireza Keymanesh, Amir Pousti
• #Choreography: Alireza Keymanesh
• #Production: 33Projects
• #Country of Production: Iran
• #Year of Production: 2017
• #Duration: 00:14:34
• #Dance and Acting: Leaders: Kourosh Mohammadi, Saeed Taherkhani, Pedram Samadi, Sima Sadeghi, Hedieh Bakhtiari, Elham Iravani, Sanaz Eslami, Nasim Arian, Shuka Karimi / Performers: Aila Ahmadi, Anahita Ashtar Nakhaei, Banafshe Ansari, Zahra Asadi, Zahra Etminan, Sara Akbarnejad, Fatemeh Alba, Melina Ale Ali, Mina Ashour, Nazila Ahmadi, Aida Boukani, Parnaz Bonyab, Samaneh Banaei, Samaneh Bigdeli, Samira Bahrami, Fatemeh Bakhtiari, Fatemeh Pourhasan, Mahtab Bakhshande, Heliya Pourkarimi, Arkia Jaberi, Jeyran Jamali Raoufi, Zahra Janmohammadi, Maryam Javanmard, Aida Charkhgari, Marjan Chaharsooghi, Zahra Khozoue, Marjan Khaksari, Negar Khalilzadeh, Negin Khalilzadeh, Elahe Dehghani, Diba Delvari, Sahar Dadban, Mahshid Dabaghkaran, Mona Davarpour, Nafiseh Dehghani, Azin Rafati, Elnaz Rezaei, Amira Rezaei, Shirin Rafiei, Niloufar Rajabalibanan, Zahra Salimian, Farzaneh Soheyli, Mahdieh Saghian, Azadeh Shirmohamad pour, Shima Shahrokhi, Nasrin Shojaei, Roja Sadeghi, Fatemeh Sadeghi, Mona Salavati, Shirin Tayebi, Sara Ebadi, Sahel Alikhani, Hanieh Enayati, Bita Farde Amini, Rabee Fesharaki, Tina Ghasemi, Matin Keymanesh, Mona Karimi, Mahshid Kazemi, Yasaman Kashi, Elham Mahmoodi, Parastoo Moghani Mamaghani, Raheleh Moradi, Samaneh Moradi, Fatemeh Mehrabi, Mahoor Mirzanejad, Nouran Mehmandoozt, Nushin Minaeifard, Yasaman Mohajerani, Samira Najari, Nirvana Naqavi, Aida Valeh, Atefeh Vakilian
• #Camera: Amir Pousti
• #Music: Peter Pirhosseinloo
• #Webpage:
• #Trailer: www.vimeo.com/751018156

I AM HERE is a short film inspired by a real life personal experience. It is a response to the myth of ‘model minority’.
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• #Title: I Am Here
• #Director: William Yong
• #Choreography: William Yong
• #Production: W Zento Production
• #Country of Production: Canada
• #Year of Production: 2021
• #Duration: 00:05:00
• #Dance and Acting: William Yong
• #Camera: Oliver Salathiel
• #Editing: William Yong
• #Music: Kevin Graham
• #Screenplay: William Yong
• #Webpage: www.vimeo.com/wzento
• #Trailer:

Depression, irritability and haze erupted at that moment

• #Title: In an instant
• #Director: Yufan Zhao
• #Choreography: Minyi Wang
• #Production: Yufan Zhao
• #Country of Production: China
• #Year of Production: 2020
• #Duration: 00:02:14
• #Dance and Acting: Minyi Wang
• #Camera: Yufan Zhao
• #Editing: Yufan Zhao
• #Music: Ludwig Göransson
• #Screenplay: Yufan Zhao
• #Webpage:
• #Trailer:

Exploring the vast concept of love from a multidimensional perspective. If love is a frequency, an energetic channel which opens doors for the unknown to manifest, how can we surrender to its magic?
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• #Title: love
• #Director: Petra Ratiu, Johan Planefeldt
• #Choreography: Cristina Negucioiu, Ardian Hartono, Petra Ratiu, Johan Planefeldt
• #Country of Production: Germany
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:06:25
• #Dance and Acting: Cristina Negucioiu, Ardian Hartono
• #Camera: Johan Planefeldt
• #Editing: Johan Planefeldt
• #Screenplay: Petra Ratiu
• #Webpage: www.johanplanefeldt.com
• #Trailer:

Using as reference the phrase by Arthur Rimbaud, “Je est un autre” (I am another) and the traditional Mayan greeting: “In lak’ech”: I am another you” to which the other responds “Hala ken: You are another me “; I was interested in investigating the idea of the reflection in / of the other, of another […]

• #Title: I AM THE OTHER
• #Director: Rita Stepien, Lucio Alberto Baglivo
• #Choreography: Lucio Alberto Baglivo in collaboration with Peter James
• #Production: LAB
• #Country of Production: Spain
• #Year of Production: 2020
• #Duration: 00:01:11
• #Dance and Acting: Peter James, Lucio A. Baglivo
• #Camera: Rita Stepien
• #Editing: Rita Stepien. Colouring: Laurent Poulain.
• #Sound: Voice: Peter James
• #Music: Aiko
• #Webpage: www.luciobaglivo.com
• #Trailer: youtu.be/EetEfWttC6w

A poem, a body that wanders, that expresses itself, that rises.
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• #Title: THUNDER BETWEEN US
• #Director: Emilie Lesgourgues
• #Choreography: Emilie Lesgourgues
• #Country of Production: France
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:02:55
• #Dance and Acting: Laura Arend
• #Camera: Emilie Lesgourgues, Léonard Porché
• #Editing: Leonard Porché
• #Music: MNTCLVA
• #Screenplay: Emilie Lesgourgues
• #Webpage: vimeo.com/emilielesgourgues
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The Spring is a screendance short, bringing together human and non-human bodies to explore and celebrate the complexity of the natural world and our place in it.
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• #Title: The Spring
• #Director: Madeline Shann
• #Choreography: Madeline Shann
• #Production: Sakhile Shann
• #Country of Production: United Kingdom
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:12:39
• #Dance and Acting: Rudzani Moleya
• #Camera: Arushi Chugh, Paul David Scott
• #Editing: Madeline Shann
• #Music: Xavier Velastín, Becky Wilkie
• #Webpage: www.madelineshann.co.uk
• #Trailer: vimeo.com/722548855

A man dreamt a tiger sitting next to him. In his dream, he was lost in the middle of mountain and faced lots of his alter egos. He struggles to understand, what the meaning of dream was and soon starts to look into himself with slow breath.

• #Title: EUPHORIA
• #Director: Hoyoung Im
• #Choreography: Hoyoung Im
• #Production: umzikssi
• #Country of Production: Germany
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:11:51
• #Dance and Acting: Hoyoung Im
• #Camera: Hoyoung Im
• #Editing: Hoyoung Im
• #Sound: Hoyoung Im
• #Music: Hoyoung Im
• #Screenplay: Hoyoung Im
• #Webpage: umzikssi.wixsite.com/2018
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Fragment of two different love stories with the boundaries of belongingness.
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• #Title: Rhythm of Belongingness
• #Director: Mustafa Karadağ
• #Choreography: Mustafa Karadağ
• #Country of Production: Germany
• #Year of Production: 2022
• #Duration: 00:04:01
• #Dance and Acting: Burcu Uçatenik, Natacha Hüfken, Mohamed Ben Salah, Mustafa Karadağ
• #Camera: Mustafa Karadağ
• #Editing: Mustafa Karadağ
• #Music: “Contact” by Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer
• #Webpage: www.karadagmustafa.com
• #Trailer: www.karadagmustafa.com/trailer.mp4