ADRA
10AM Screening
Mam I Fod / Mum To Be - Natasha Dawkes
The film reflects on identity, holding space for who she has been and who she is becoming as she prepares to welcome her beautiful daughter into the world.
Bhramri (The Turn) - Sugandh Lamba, Siddharth Kumar
In the Indian cultural art fraternity, gurus position themselves as demigods and ultimate rule makers. So artists often find themselves at cross-sections - of the mind's voice or the heart's calling, of the norms or the extraordinary, of the discipline or the unruliness.
Do You Like My Fleece? / Wyt Ti'n Hoffi Fleece Fi? - Eluned Owens
This is a film about love of homeland and heritage, and what we have on our doorstep.
Mamko Moja L’uba - Alexnder Bodnarchuk
Shot on location in Marine on St Croix, MN two women dance through a field, weaving around each other with steps derived from folk and contemporary dance vocabulary. Clad in costumes that reimagine elements of women’s wear from the Medzilaborce district of Eastern Slovakia, Bodnarchuk and collaborators explore their relationship with matrilineal lineage.
underneath is us - Iona Hannagan Lewis, Anno Bolender
A tactile constellation of digital intimacies produced with queer FLINTA* communities across Germany and the UK. Weaving self-recorded footage recording movement and freewriting, this montage dance film is a patchwork of answers to a question - what can a surface tell us of what is underneath?
Forest, Sea, City, Rock - Catherine Bennett, Lucy Cash
A community project between Volcano Theatre and St Joseph's Cathedral Primary school to create a dance film with choreographer, Catherine Bennett.
All That We Are -Dir. Eloïse Frey
‘All That We Are’ represents a search for authenticity of movement through reconnecting with nature. The deliberate decision to exclude the human body and human movement from the images encourages the viewer to reflect on their own relation to the natural flows, cycles and dynamics.
Local People - Dir. Rachel Parry, Jack Lunt
Local People is a short screendance, made and filmed in Westside, Galway (Ireland), by Speckled Egg Dance.
All of the performers have an intellectual disability.
7 company members asked choreographer Rachel Parry to work with them, initially to experiment with repetition as a choreographic framework, using the design and use of chairs.
Ancestors Are Watching - Dominika Rau
Synthesis - Lucy Knowles
Synthesis is a contemporary dance film that explores the evolving relationship between human creativity and computer art through 3D rendered, motion-captured ballet and modern dance.
Lune - Camila Serrano
Beneath a vast, watchful moon, several figures emerge from a shifting terrain of luminous lines.
In this brief meditation, the dancers navigate a landscape shaped by both human intention and machine imagination-offering a glimpse into possible future pathways of creating with a new medium.