PDFF x WCPNW
Calling all dance film women choreographers of the Pacific Northwest! 🎥💃
We are excited to announce a partnership between Portland Dance Film Fest & Women Choreographers of the Pacific Northwest!
Did you know? According to Dance Data Project, in the 2022/23 performance season, out of the 1,637 works presented by the top 150 US Dance companies, only 32% were choreographed by women. 👎
WCPNW aims to present works by women artists to an audience of dance professionals, administrators, students, and patrons to help move the needle toward equal opportunity for women choreographers.
Head over to https://buff.ly/3SFQKTu for more info.
Early Bird Deadline
Everyone flock to your computer! 🙃 The Early Bird Deadline is TODAY!!!
#birdhumor
Clip from Iwona Pasińska's Bestia.
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Jury Award AND Picks 3 Audience Award goes to Aura! Congrats to the filmmakers and artists: @siyang_fu, @lancaaaaaa
We are excited to announce that each award winning film will receive a $100 prize.
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Best Long goes to Branché! Congrats to the filmmakers and artists: @janiquette Eric Bates Images @cirque_branche
We are excited to announce that each award winning film will receive a $100 prize.
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Best Mini goes to Forming! Congrats to the filmmakers and artists: @evemcconnachie, @chloe_rosser_, @scottishballet
We are excited to announce that each award winning film will receive a $100 prize.
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Picks 2 Audience Award goes to Future Future - Series! Congrats to the filmmakers and artists: @brinfindlay Company 605
We are excited to announce that each award winning film will receive a $100 prize.
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Picks 1 Audience Award goes to Old Man at the Corner Store! Congrats to the filmmakers and artists: @nadavheyman, Vacation Theory, Cheryl Mann Productions
We are excited to announce that each award winning film will receive a $100 prize.
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1 DAY UNTIL OPENING NIGHT!!
See you tomorrow!
Aura
Aura (China)
Directed and Choreographed by Tang Chenglong
To see. To sense. To feel. To live. And finally, to be. A new duet by Tang Chenglong, Aura features two of the most talented young Chinese artists of this generation – Shi Renqi and Bai Yuhao. Aura hopes to ask the fundamental question of existentialism: who are we? Why are we here? Can you see us?
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Saturday, October 21st at 7:30pm
Forming
Forming (Scotland)
Directed by Eve McConnachie & Chloe Rosser | Movement Director: Madeline Squire
Forming examines the experience of living with a neurological condition and what people don’t see; the minute struggles and frustration inherent when the body will not obey the mind.
A faceless, genderless body moves in tiny motions; twisting, twitching, stretching; transforming into curious, intimate shapes – surreal but also beautiful.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Saturday, October 21st at 7:30pm
The Fell of Dark
The Fell of Dark (United States)
Directed and Choreographed by Marla Phelan
‘The Fell of Dark’ is inspired by the profound and communal strength found in ritual practices. Dancers emerge onto a sacred pavilion, performing a symbolic procession of mourning. Their ritualized movement embodies the healing power of human connection. The Fell of Dark is made in response to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the overdose crisis and to the families silenced by its stigma.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Saturday, October 21st at 7:30pm
Branche
Branché (Canada)
Directed by Janique L Robillard & Eric Bates
Through unique, female-driven circus and movement art, BRANCHÉ traverses time and lush natural landscapes of Quebec in a poetic exploration of our potential to work in harmony with nature in the face of the rising conflicts and chaos of the climate crisis. As diminishing resources and livable land drive an existential collapse, the daring three-high formations and breathtaking falls remind us that a oneness of nature and humanity is undoubtedly worth preserving.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Thursday, October 19th at 7:30pm
Hisin 15
HISIN 15 (Spain/Israel)
Choreographed and Directed by Naya Binghi
Happiness and Pain, despite their antagonistic nature, find a simultaneous coexistence in the human emotional framework, whose idiosyncrasy will serve as inspiration for the development of the creative process of this work.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Saturday, October 21st at 7:30pm
You Are Enough
YOU ARE ENOUGH (France/Austria)
Directed and Choreographed by Lisa Magnan
YOU ARE ENOUGH encourages self-acceptance and growth through embracing imperfection! Follow 4 individuals on their journey sharing life's singular moments and experimenting the beauty and complexity of humanity with poetry, sensibility, and humor.
You are Enough is an ode to self acceptance, it’s a love shoot to accept ourself as we really are and stop being afraid of not being beautiful/legitimate/smart/competent/interesting/... enough, for doing what we really want to do.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Thursday, October 19th at 7:30pm
Luce
LUCE (Canada)
Directed and Choreographed by Valeria Galluccio
Luce is a mysterious alien creature, with both aquatic and human features. After suddenly falling next to a lake in a forested region in North America, she sets out to document her experience on Earth with a video camera. As an empathetic and tender creature, her awakened senses cause her body to make jerky movements as she explores her surroundings, completely isolated from her own species.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Saturday, October 21st at 7:30pm
Future Futures
Future Futures - Series (Canada)
Directed by Brian J Johnson | Choreographed by Company 605
How do we bring our physical bodies with us into our inevitably digitally-bound futures?
As we approach a technological singularity that threatens to replace flesh and blood beings with digital versions of themselves, can we lose our embodied experience and still think of ourselves as human? FUTURE FUTURES embraces the science fiction genre to explore the digital evolution of a future humanity through a series of short experimental dance films, an unfolding choreographic narrative that imagines the human body in a state of unthinkable transformation.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Friday, October 20th at 7:30pm
Of the air
Of the Air (United States)
Directed and choreographed by Alexa Velez
"Of the Air" is a short film that examines our disconnect from the natural world, engaging with the element of air from a physical and emotional perspective. The film is a reaction to the climate crisis in the form of a duet between a living, breathing body and the air. The human-made spaces we inhabit too often erase all traces of the surrounding living environment. "Of the Air" is a reminder that even though we live in structures that isolate us from the natural world, we are part of that environment and depend on it for our survival.
Screening at Dekum Street Theater on Thursday, October 19th at 7:30pm @alex.of.the.east
