SCREENDANCE IS BACK
ADMISSIONS
$12 per film screening
FILM SCHEDULE
Tues April 9
7 pm
Program 1: Tania Hernández Velasco
Eclipsis 16 min.
Our Body is an Expanding Star 4 min.
Titixe 60 min.
Wed April 10
7 pm
Program 2: Disability Dance Shorts
One + One Make Three
25 min.
Rhizophora
17 min.
Run time: 42 min.
Program 3: The Body As An Archive
Crip Mad/Archive Dances
30 min.
a so-called archive
20 min.
Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off the Dance Floor
21 min.
Run time: 1 hr 11 min.
9 PM
Program 4: Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations 花花世界
Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations 花花世界
Run time: 82 min.
Thurs April 11
7 pm
Program 5: Dance Animation Shorts
Delivery Dancer’s Sphere 25 min.
Bird in the Peninsula 16 min.
Moving or Being Moved 11 min.
Run time: 52 min.
Program 6: Rhythms of Resistance
Moune Ô 16 min.
absent wound 10 min.
Bury My Heart on Kit Carson’s Land 5 min.
Dance Dance Evolution 18 min.
Run time: 49 min.
9 PM
Program 7: University of Utah Student Shorts + The Truss Arch
Why Do I Always Survive 7 min.
Un Poquito 7 min.
What She Is 3-5 min.
The Truss Arch 35 min.
Run time: 55 min.
VISITING GUEST
[Image Description: Tania, a Mexican filmmaker with brown skin and long brown hair, peers down at the camera, a small smile on her lips and in her eyes. She wears a dark blue long-sleeved top with small white dots. Behind her, an angular glass building reflects green and whites of the landscape and sun.]
Tania Hernández Velasco is a filmmaker born in México City. Through a poetic, ludic and sensory approach, her work explores questions of territory, nature, legacy and identity that traverse her intimate sphere.
Titixe (2018), her first feature documentary in which she holds directing, editing, producing and cinematography credits, has been selected in more than forty international film festivals and collected several awards.
In 2019, she was selected as a Flaherty Seminar – Professional Development Fellow (Flaherty Seminar, NY) and was awarded the Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award (Full Frame FF, NC).
In 2022, she debuted as an opera stage director for Opera Lafayette’s Silvain which premiered in NYC’s Museo del Barrio and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center. That year, she also premiered “Eclipsis”, in which she holds directing, editing and producing credits, a short film produced by Mexico’s National University Cinematheque (Filmoteca UNAM).
She is working on her second film Our Body Is an Expanding Star (2024), in collaboration with Semillites Hernández Velasco. This project has been supported by FOCINE-IMCINE (2021)and Firelight Media’s William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021). Hernández Velasco imparts documentary workshops and is currently a recipient of México’s Jóvenes Creadores grant (2023).
PANELS
Screendance online program also offers two pre-recorded conversations, spotlighting different themes of the tour. These will be made available online at slfstix.org starting April 9.
SCREENDANCE 2024 PANEL: THE LEGACY OF SCREENDANCE IN SALT LAKE CITY On our first conversation, Screendance lead curator and moderator, Kym McDaniel, engages with Tania Hernández’s work, as well as with disability activist and artist Petra Kuppers, and U of U student Devin Etcitty, to discuss integrating poetry and voice in their screendance practices. Click here for FREE Panel.
SCREENDANCE PANEL: Poetry, Identity and Voice in Screendance On our second conversation, Kym McDaniel and U of U Screendance Program Founder, Ellen Bromberg, discuss the legacy of screendance in Salt Lake City and the journey of the Tour to this day. A candid, joyful discussion, that will surely be cherished for many years to come. Click here for FREE Panel.
FILMS
absent wound
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 6: RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE
10 min | 2015 | Iran | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Maryam Tafakory
The rituals of warrior training are seen in combination with the recitations of a girl.
a so-called archive
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 3: THE BODY AS AN ARCHIVE
20 min | 2020 | United Kingdom | Not Rated | Short | ALL FILMS CAPTIONED FOR ACCESS
Directed by Onyeka Igwe
a so-called archive imagines the ‘lost’ films from the archives of the Colonial Film Unit (1932–1955) in Lagos, Nigeria and the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (2002-2009) in Bristol Temple Meads, U.K. Using distinctive soundscapes, choral arrangements and a radio play within the confines of images from a disembodied tour of the exquisite corpse of an archive building.
BIRD IN THE PENINSULA
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 5: DANCE ANIMATION SHORTS
16 min | 2022 | Japan | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Atsushi Wada
Children are dancing to music under the supervision of their teacher. A young lady witnesses the scene and disrupts their rituals.
BURY MY HEART ON KIT CARSON’S LAND
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 6: RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE
5 min | 2024 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Devin Etcitty
Filmed on Dinétah, the body and land converse with each other. In this experimental film, the landscape enthralls viewers with it’s vastness, beauty and isolation. Inspired by their upbringing on the Navajo Nation, the artist seeks to answer questions about trauma in the body.
CRIP MAD/ARCHIVE DANCES
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 3: THE BODY AS AN ARCHIVE
35 min | 2024 | USA | Not Rated | Short | ALL FILMS CAPTIONED FOR ACCESS
Directed by Petra Kuppers
The Crip/Mad Archive Dances address disabled and mad presences in asylum spaces and in dance archives through participatory performances grounded in disability culture.
DANCE DANCE EVOLUTION
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 6: RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE
18 min | 2022 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Jules Rosskam
In Dance, Dance, Evolution six trans-identified people explore their relationship to dance over time. As one participant says, “What I feel when I’m dancing is the very decomposition of myself.” This short, joyful documentary looks at the ways in which the body in motion opens up the spaces between gender, race, and time, producing pleasure in indeterminacy. This begs the question, how do we take that idealized moment on the dance floor—where nothing matters but the beat—and take it with us everywhere we go?
DELIVERY DANCER'S SPHERE
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 5: DANCE ANIMATION SHORTS
25 min | 2022 | Korea | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Ayoung Kim
Ernst Mo works for courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine Seoul. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack – with all the attendant consequences. In her own unique style, artist Ayoung Kim creates a fascinating and pretty disturbing world.
ECLIPSIS
TUESDAY, April 9 | 7:00 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 1: TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO
16 min | 2022 | Mexico | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Tania Hernández Velasco
HUAHUA’S DAZZLING WORLD AND ITS MYRIAD TEMPTATIONS 花花世界
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 9 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 4: FEATURE IN FOCUS
82 min | 2022 | China, Canada | Not Rated | Feature
Directed by Daphne Xu
Huahua, an eccentric and exuberant woman from Xiongan New Area, livestreams herself dancing, singing, and chatting with fans on Kuaishou for a living. Cell phone screens, beauty filters, and digital soundscapes reveal a world that Huahua creates with her own image.
MOUNE Ô
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 6: RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE
16 min | 2022 | Belgium, French Guiana, France | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste
“I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that’s the end” By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film “Jean Galmot aventurier” by Alain Maline, where the filmmaker’s father played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes. From little gestures of daily life, the resistance toward oppression comes in its own rhythm.
MOVING OR BEING MOVED
THURSDAY, April 11 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 5: DANCE ANIMATION SHORTS
11 min | 2020 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Sabine Gruffat
The everyday performance of domestic labor is teleported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot provides no answers. In this world, motion capture technology translates movement into data that can be unbound from the human body. Yvonne’s No Manifesto becomes a framework for understanding the existential impact of this new dataset. What happens to movement when it is divorced from affect and feeling? What happens to dance without the basic premise of embodiment and breath?
ONE + ONE MAKE THREE
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 2: DISABILITY DANCE SHORTS
25 min | United Kingdom | Not Rated | Short | ALL FILMS CAPTIONED FOR ACCESS
Directed by Kinetic Light
Commissioned and presented by ALL ARTS, this Emmy-nominated experimental documentary-dance film — directed by Katherine Helen Fisher of Safety Third Productions — takes audiences behind the scenes and into the studio as Kinetic Light creates their aerial dance production, Wired. Wired is an immersive work that explores the gendered, raced, and disability histories of barbed wire and traces the fine line between “us” and “them.” Dancers partner, spin, and soar as they reflect on art, dance, and disability as a creative force.
Kinetic Light’s ongoing research and development of aesthetic artistic accessibility can be flexibly experienced in One + One Make Three through two streams of ASL interpretation, multi-voiced enhanced audio description, and integrated open captions. We craft these access approaches as an integral part of our art, in collaboration with other disabled artists and community members. They are intentionally designed to be as challenging, provocative, and beautiful as the art itself.
OUR BODY IS AN EXPANDING STAR
TUESDAY, April 9 | 7:00 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 1: TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO
4 min | Mexico | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Tania Hernández Velasco
Two siblings make an imaginary pilgrimage through the memory and geography of their Brown bodies in order to discover their beauty and dignity. As they journey through the seas of their stretch marks, the fields of their hair, and the constellations of their moles, their ancestors emerge to accompany them.
RHIZOPHORA
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 2: DISABILITY DANCE SHORTS
17 min | 2015 | Vietnam, Germany | Not Rated | Short | ALL FILMS CAPTIONED FOR ACCESS
Directed by Davide De Lillis & Julia Metzger-Traber
Dancing between waking and dreaming, a day seen through the eyes of eleven young residents of the Friendship Village in Vietnam who are living with disabilities caused by Agent Orange.
SLIPPED, FELL AND SMACKED MY FACE OFF THE DANCE FLOOR
WEDNESDAY, April 10 | 7 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 2: DISABILITY DANCE SHORTS
20 min | 2022 | Ireland | Not Rated | Short | ALL FILMS CAPTIONED FOR ACCESS
Directed by Lisa Freeman
Drawing on the town’s history as a site of leisure and respite, this work positions the human body in this now-defunct site of relaxation. The actors create intimate moments of dialogue in this public space, where the script touches on ideas of therapeutic infrastructures, tourism and the body as an archive. These moments are woven through this site of failed architecture, set to a live musical score performed by a saxophone player.
THE TRUSS ARCH
THURSDAY, April 11 | 9 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 7: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SHORTS + THE TRUSS ARCH
35 min | 2021 | Canada | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Sonya Stefan
Somewhere between an autobiographical piece, a heartfelt tribute to an immigrant mother whose fate is out of her hands, and a dance film rich in poetry and symbolism, this ode to freedom bubbles with reflections and experimentations—all set against the imposing backdrop of factory chimneys and a truss arch bridge.
TITIXE
TUESDAY, April 9 | 7:00 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 1: TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO
60 min | 2018 | Mexico | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Tania Hernández Velasco
UN POQUITO
THURSDAY, April 11 | 9 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 7: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SHORTS + THE TRUSS ARCH
7 min | 2024 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Roxanne Gray
A mother and daughter explore borderland identity, community, and lineage through folklórico dance in San Antonio, TX.
WHAT SHE IS
THURSDAY, April 11 | 9 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 7: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SHORTS + THE TRUSS ARCH
3 min | 2024 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Constance Anderson
A 16mm film that explores freedom in female sexuality through the aesthetic of “cool,” inspired by the 1960s Americana beatnik movement. The film plays with tension between analog and digital and physical and metaphysical.
WHY DO I ALWAYS SURVIVE
THURSDAY, April 11 | 9 PM | Screening as part of PROGRAM 7: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SHORTS + THE TRUSS ARCH
7 min | 2023 | USA | Not Rated | Short
Directed by Irishia Hubbard
A presence hangs suspended, a bridge between epochs and dimensions. Within this immersive experience, the ancestral voices reverberate through her essence, whispering secrets of our heritage. Why Do I Always Survive is a colorful exploration of corporeal existence through the unique perspective of the Black moving body.
