REELING: DANCE ON SCREEN
May 29 – 10 PM MDT
Drive-in Movie Screening: Departures

Available to watch on demand from May 29 until June 5.

$25 per car

Curated by Gerry Morita and Shawn Tse
Co-presented by Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre
(Total duration: approximately one hour)

REELING: Dance on Screen is a series of short film screenings produced by Mile Zero Dance, every second year. Each time the breadth, scope, and quality improves greatly along with technical knowhow, as the form expands and more filmmakers become aware of dance as a viable medium.

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***NOTE Regarding COVID-19 Restrictions

All guests are required to remain in their vehicles for the duration of the event. There will be no food venders or public washrooms onsite once the mall closes at 9:00 PM. Guests are restricted to attending with members of their own household or their two close contacts if they live alone.  

PROGRAM:

Go! (Italy)
Director - Vittorio Campanella, Riccardo Maione
Dance Credit - Emanuele Piras
2019
6:41 minutes
The dancing migration through a day, periphery and body.

The Sash Maker (Canada)
Director - Rebecca Sadowski
Dance Credit - Rebecca Sadowski
2020
8:16 minutes
An act of decolonization- Sadowski and Lessard put Métis and contemporary dance, Cree poetry, and traditional finger- weaving on the screen as a cinematic Lesson in Canadian History.

The Great Unifier (Portugal)
Director - Joana Soares
2020
3:35 minutes
The great unifier, that devilish liar is movement.

Calcar (Romania)
Director - Georgeta Corca
Dance Credit - Georgeta Corca
Dance Credit - Georgeta Corca
2021
5:39 minutes
The rock reveals a hidden character, that takes on a precise trajectory. Her manner of moving mirrors the fragmented, layered structure of the rock, reminding at times of an animal, a climber, a dancer.

Erêkauã (Brazil)
Director - Paulo Accioly
Choreographer - Ernane Ferreira
Dance Credit - Kauã
2021
1:00 minute
Kauã dances in the hill, like a bird of prey.

Downriver (Switzerland)
Director - Andrea Boll
Choreographer - Andrea Boll
Dance Credit - Ivan Blagajcevic, Andrea Boll, Chris de Feyter, Hella Immler, Emeric Rabot
2020
10:00 minutes
Water - Leonardo da Vinci called it 'the blood of the planet'. A group of people emerges from the water. They try to resist the current of the river and the stream of people in the city, but have to surrender to the flow and are washed ashore.
On the shore, the stranded seek for hold and refuge. In the course of the film ‘against or with the flow', ‘resistance and devotion’ manifest as a primal instinct, as a survival strategy.

We are all on the same bus (Portugal)
Director - Nuno Serrão
Dance Credit - Luis Daio
2019
2:00
We are all on the same bus, but some of us are more awake than others. If we consider Einstein's space-time concept, we end up with an object where everything that happened and everything that will happen, is understood inside. Through it, we are driven by a vehicle, let's call a bus, completely autonomous, that goes in a single direction, to the front, and has a single window, the rear.

Circus Movements (Ethiopia)
Director - Lukas Berger, Mário Gajo de Carvalho
Dance Credit - Circus Debere Berhan
2019
15:00 minutes
Circus acts surrounded by beautiful Ethiopian landscapes and music, that has its place in music history.

CHAOTIC (Indonesia)
Director - Densiel Prisma Yanti Lebang
Dance Credit - Ferry Lesar, Try Anggara
2020
5:14 Minutes
The character of chaos in an urban context is a contestation of the capital. Temporality operates in a chaotic framework not only through the relationship between body and material but also through the relationship between body and space (spatial), and by distance. The issue of materiality does not only talk about objectivity but can reveal other things through physical relations and also spatial relationships. Space influences events and also gives meaning.

My Heart, My Traveler (United States)
Director - Julia Zanin de Paula
Dance Credit - Agnes Artych
2020
3:00 minutes
Mere Dil Mere Musaafir (My Heart, My Traveler) is a visual expression of the unknown through the eyes of different cultures and languages.

CASA (Cuba)
Director - Henry Labrada Rodriguez
Dance Credit - Henry Labrada Rodriguez
2020
9:21 minutes
With the honorable collaboration of Adnan Jerbi as a cinematographer and Lisbet Pérez Roldán as a visual artist (body art), CASA sets out to experiment with various forms. Through a multidisciplinary line combining plastic arts, dance, music and film, I aim to dive into the contemporary situation of Cuban society. CASA means home and it also responds to recent protests led by young Cuban intellectuals and artists at the doors of the Ministry of Culture in Havana, demanding freedom of expression.