Dance short films (Code Dans- Lens Dans Festival - Shortwaves Festival)

Code Dans - Lens Dans Festival - Shortwaves Festival

Lens Dans Festival

SOMA (11:00 MIN)

By KWAM collective – GBR – 11 min

SOMA is an experimental short film employing movement and dance as its primary medium for story-telling.

Produced and choreographed by KWAM Collective, the film explores contemporary myth on the genesis of the human body. The piece oscillates between two distinct dimensions: an infinite black hole, in which bodies exist outside linear space and time; and a labyrinthine house, where a strange decadent gathering is taking place. As the free-associative, dreamlike narrative unfolds, different characters go through visceral bodily experiences of love, enchantment, pain and death. The film premiered in 2023 and has been selected at 40 international festivals and won 11 awards.

1st prize – SOMA – Kwam Collective – 10:59 @kwamcollective / soma@kwamcollective.com

Fresh oranges into the ocean (11:30 MIN)

By Silvia Giordano – NLD, PRT, JPT & ITA – 11 min 30

While merging and intertwining with nature, three young girls create a metaphorical and visionary narrative of their present condition and their projections towards the future. Through their lightness, disorientation, vitality, and strength, they embark on a choreographic journey facing high and low tides, turbulence and contradictions, calm and turmoil. Guided by absurd questions the oranges reflect the path of the protagonists in their delicate passage to adulthood and guide us in a poetic reflection on our lives.

2nd prize – Fresh Oranges into the ocean – Silvia Giordiano – 11:29 @la_cap_rehub / silvia.giordano.sg@gmail.com

RESET (06:46 MIN)

By Guido Sarli – 6 min 46

RESET is a short dance film that investigates the magnetic force that unites two people. A dialogue between bodies and artificial matter. A peek at the relationship between two persons and what remains when this bond is no longer evident.

3e prijs – RESET – Guido Sarli – 6:56 @guido_sarli / guidosarli@gmail.com

Shortwaves Festival

NEW MOVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Curated by Ygor Gama in cooperation with Short Waves Festival.

This screening travels Brazil – Rwanda – Malaysia, celebrating south-to-south dialogues and perspectives. Mixing experimental cinema, performance, and video dance, the film works examine traces of colonial history in the present and question the Western perception of time and its representation in moving images. Unveiling the weight of a persistent history of oppression, the artists respond with a variety of gestures – from beating hair to hearing an old song or becoming trans-human. Rebellion and tenderness are both responses to a dystopian world.

A BELA É PLOC 

Brazil / 2022 / Video-performance / 3’ / Director: Rafael Bandeira & As Themônias

The drag-queen artist Tristan Soledad beats her hair to the sound of the band Calypso in the aristocratic palace Bologna, built during the rubber boom in the Brazilian Amazon.

TERRA MATER

Rwanda / 2023 / Fiction / 10’ / Director: Kantarama Gahigiri 

For our land and bones. At the end of the world. Technology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?

LATEX LABYRINTH 

Malaysia / 2025 / Video-dance / 13’ / Director: Wey Yinn Teo

An old man awakens in a deforested rubber estate and finds himself in the past – a distant old folk song ripples as he falls into the eternal loop of rubber tapping, finding the secrets behind the trees..

CODE DANS

Color the world – DTFY Crew – 6 min 17

You are not alone

You are never different

You are beautiful

You are worthy of love

You deserve a peaceful home

You are entitled to growth

You are enough,

you always have been

and you always will!

Please, color the world

Wat als we samen bewegen op het ritme van Nieuw-Gent? – KAA Gent Foundation – 2 min 26