San Francisco Dance Film Festival: International Screendance Shorts

Opening Night: International Shorts

Celebrate with us as we welcome international filmmakers to San Francisco for the opening of our 5th anniversary season. Films from Finland to Romania, Australia to Israel, are featured in this vibrant celebration of screendance from around the world.

Globe Trot

(USA+ 25 countries, 2013) 4:35
Director: Mitchell Rose
Choreographer: Bebe Miller

An international crowd-sourced dance-film project, as 54 filmmakers on all seven continents each shoot one second of dance by choreographer Bebe Miller.

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Home Alone

(Israel, 2013) 2:00
Director: Adi Halfin
Choreographer: Tamir Eting

Featuring the Bat Sheva Dance Company ensemble, this short film imparts an atmosphere of “parental absence” as the dancers make creative use of the space – an abandoned building – combining planned and improvised choreography.

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Silent Places

(Romania, 2013) 12:00
Director: Simona Deaconescu
Choreographer: Simona Deaconescu

Five strangers are gathered in an unwelcoming space, fighting together for a way out, tired by their confused thoughts, trying to regain strength over their altered bodies. The camera bursts into the heart of the dance whilst the music copes with the cruelty and the fever of everyday warfare.

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ME – Story of a Performance

(Finland, Japan, Estonia, 2013) 7:30
Director: Jopsu Ramu
Choreographer: Johanna Nuutinen

Choreographer/dancer Johanna Nuutinen performs a solo piece, which is photographed from different points of view and set to a haunting original score.

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Off Ground

(The Netherlands, 2013) 12:30
Director: Boudewijn Koole
Choreographer: Jakop Ahlbom

A dance film about a boy that says farewell to his mother.

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Alone? in the theatre!

(Germany, 2013) 2:55
Director: Max Zachrisson
Choreographer: Max Zachrisson

A man finds himself alone in the Staatstheater Nürnberg, his lonely experience becoming a joyful one.

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since you went

(USA, 2013) 3:38
Directors: Ryan T. Smith, Wendy Rein, Lindsay Gauthier
Choreographers: Ryan T. Smith, Wendy Rein

Part dance film and part music video, “since you went” follows the story of a couple where the passing of time, and the history of a relationship is measured in cups of coffee.

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Vanishing Points

(Canada, 2014) 8:41
Director: Marites Carino
Choreographer: Tentacle Tribe

Conceptual hip-hop dancers collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity on the streets of Montreal.

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Ballet Spiral

(Belgium, 2013) 3:17
Director: Sam AsaertStop and pause for a moment. Behold and reflect upon the static beauty, dying movements leave in their wake.Experience the worlds of dance as never before.

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Samba

(USA, 2014) 2:40
Directors: Andrea Lerner, Rosane Chamecki
Choreographer: chameckilerner

In their new video “Samba,” the Brazilians Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner filmed a single samba dancer in extreme slow motion. What you see will change forever the way you perceive the body and it’s motion.

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Rules of the Game

(Canada and USA, 2014) 8:25
Directors: Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman
Choreographers: Jeff Kuperman, Rick Kuperman

Trust dissolves between four factory workers under the unremitting surveillance of the management.