EXPERIMENTAL

Animation and experimental film explored through analog media and technology.

Dance is taken to thrilling new heights on the screen in these thirteen innovative films. Filmmakers get creative with a variety of media like never before, creating transportive shorts with stop-motion animation, slick editing, and new approaches to 16mm film.

Co-Presenter: Gray Area

Program Info

Runtime: 57 minutes

October 15 - October 24

Venue: Streaming on Marquee TV

$8.99 / $45 (shorts pass) / $50 (festival pass)

Program Films

People In Cities

Short stop motion dance film which assembles over three thousand still images.

Rosie Trump

Contemporary

Emergent System

An experimental animated film exploring the boundary between abstraction and narrative and ways in which one can emerge from the other

Joshua Frankel

Faye Driscoll

Contemporary

OME

OME is an 8 mm choreographic portrait of a Mexican dancer in Brooklyn, New York.

Camila Arroyo

Contemporary

Chimera

Chimera evokes a world in which the lines between reality and fiction are blurred. Through shifting, morphing, and unfolding images, the film calls into question how we capture that flux

Laura Bachman, Gogolplex

Laura Bachman

Contemporary

True Sound Facade

True Sound Facade is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realizes their digital self feels truer than their real world self

Laura N-Tamara

Kino McHugh

Contemporary

Time Garden: Dawn Replica

Dawn Replica is a choreographic animation that presents a chimeric vision of the human body. This film is the first movement in a larger suite of works called Time Garden which was created at the intersection of music, visual art and dance in virtual reality

Scotty Hardwig

Contemporary

Null Objects

Null Objects explores technology’s ability to swallow the human form to create a cyber being and how this phenomena relates to the plastic unknowable nature of the self. Through collaged and fractured imagery, a cyber dreamscape emerges.

Katherine Helen Fisher

Contemporary

The Ghost Of New York

With Times Square storefronts shuttered and stages gone dark, a New York City dancer uses neon soaked streets as his canvas and transforms a year of pain into a symphony of beauty

Dominic Lahiff

Ghost

Hip-Hop/Street

Attention Span

Shot from 16 different camera angles and edited at a rapid pace, Attention Span seeks to challenge its audiences' perception of perspective and passage of time.

Mitchell Rose

Emily Arden Jones

Contemporary