Film Categories: dance

  • RIFF

    RIFF is a short portrait of a Chicago-based tap dance team; three women who call themselves ‘Rhythm Iss’ These Bold women use dance as their voice, choosing to express themselves through tap. Their movements give life to a message of empowerment and celebration. In this film we drop into their practice space to experience the raw beauty of their dance rehersal.

  • Figs in Motion

    Two men become six ballerinas and several horses in a bestial, impromptu corps de ballet. A delightful riff on the imagery of Edgar Degas and Eadweard Muybridge, featuring original music by Bryce Kulak and the Wet Secrets. “Figs in Motion” is a collaboration between Edmonton filmmakers Trevor Anderson and aAron munson which was originally commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta.

  • Strips

    A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and then reassembled. As the strips are displaced and manipulated, an abstraction occurs. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • Believe it.

    “Believe it.” is an experimental work exploring the relationship between Christianity and homosexuality, inspired by the perspectives of queer people living in South Australia. Movement has been generated as a response to the findings of audio interviews and is presented through a hybridization of film, dance and documentary.

  • ABSTRACT RANDOM “COWBOY” feat. ILL NANA DiverseCity Dance Company

    “Without girls there’d be no world!” “COWBOY” is about gender bending, questioning authority, and challenging the norm. The film is an Abstract Random Production featuring the amazing and beautiful, Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company. Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. Abstract Random is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.

  • Les Nanas

    Shot on one reel of Super 8mm and edited in camera, “Les Nanas” is a visual interpretation of a piece of music by avant-garde musicians, the Artie Smudges Trio, which follows a day in the lives of three doll-like women.

  • La Revue

    Art forms have been killing each other off for centuries. In an artistic autopsy, Aiken and Majzels examine the death of vaudeville. Through dance, performance and music, this film uses the trappings of vaudeville to tell the story of its demise. With a cabaret of sad double acts, aging burlesque dancers and tired magicians, the film takes a humorous and macabre look into the forgotten arts.

  • Fabric

    “Fabric” is an experimental narrative about a woman’s attempts to reconnect with her family. The film uses magical realism to visualize a physical process of grief, exploring both real and imagined spaces.

  • Go Go Reject

    A skinny, naive go go dancer meets with unexpected rejection when he attempts to fulfill his childhood “Flashdance” fantasy.

  • Do I Belong?

    “Do I Belong?” is singer/songwriter Joel Gibb’s latest visualization for The Hidden Cameras’ pop song by the same name. In the spirit of DIY low budget filmmaking, “Do I Belong?” choreographs numerous scenes into one whimsical take. The shot culminates into psychedelic mayhem, where Gibb finds himself at the mercy of a mob of queer characters, many of whom are Toronto-based perennial favs (featuring artists Regina the Gentlelady, Luis Jacob, and Andrew James Paterson, among others).