Movement Workshop

A movement workshop with 2021 Commissioned Artist Sophie Dow, whose film Mountain Duets premieres directly following this session as part of the Commissioned Artists’ Friday Film Screening. Listen, gather, explore the reciprocity of the circle and cycles within our stories, memories from the earth and the imprints within our own bodies. This workshop welcomes folks of all ages to move and reflect as they embody understandings through a few of the origin teachings of Turtle Island.

Artist Talk

Join us after Tanin Torabi’s film In Plain Sight plays in our X MARKS THE SPOT screening for an intimate conversation with the filmmaker. Tanin speaks to her experience of living in Tehran, Iran where dance is illegal, and how these barriers and restrictions have become sources of inspiration for her. Her talk expands on her journey in discovering dance filmmaking, and how this stemmed out of a necessity to share her movements beyond her home country of Iran.

Workshop

In this workshop we use movement, photography, and storytelling to create narrative portraits. Paired with our OFF-THE-WALL screening (5-6PM PDT), participants will meet at 3:30 PM to workshop storyboard techniques as a springboard to learn how to develop dance portraits and characters for the screen. What is your story? How does framing portray your identity? How do I communicate to collaborators about a vision for a film?

Conversation

Movement and filmmaker duos (and past and present F-O-R-M Commissioned Artists) Karmella Benedito De Barros + Lexi Mellish Mingo and Kyana Lyne + Siam Obregón reflect on their interdisciplinary approaches to creating a film, highlighting the process of building a shared collaborative language. As filmmakers and choreographers, how can we start to build a foundation that bridges both mediums? How can we communicate across mediums, and in what ways do they inform one another?