San Diego / Tijuana DANCEonFILM Festival

An ancient woman moves like a praying mantis as she blends gracefully through changing landscapes. She leaps through a cornfield to lure Man into one final battle.

A delirious, chameleon woman gets carried away by the Parana River stream.  She becomes one with the plants or the fish; is at times a heroin and at times a victim, until she is rescued by a fisherman.

Two women negotiate the confines of a sleek, modern bus stop shelter on a gritty urban street at night.

Lo-Fi live visual effects light up the dancer as she takes over the dance floor.

A busy dancing man takes a nap in two realities. His live self dreams and his avatar self dreams. Neither reality is quite so simple when they wake.

A little girl discovers a praxinoscope, where she observes animated images of a ballerina. The animated image transforms into a real dancer who transports us from Paris to Montreal in a surrealistic magical world.

Inspired by the noir films of the 1940s and 1950s and the posters that publicized them, “The Last Martini” plays out the rain-soaked reverie of a man whose psyche becomes tangled in a broken dance of passion and heartbreak.

A new take on a classic piece of choreography conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb. Through the use of the camera, we remove obstacles to the conversation between performer, environment and witness, taking this inspiring and athletic movement out of its typical context.

SUNSCREEN SERENADE Kriota Willberg, USA, 2009

This innovative homage to Busby Berkeley celebrates the merits of skin protection. An EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2008, supported by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts – Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.

SHE Kathy Rose, USA, 2009

An insectoid fantasy adapted from a live performance into a mesmerizing short using puppetry, collage, and dance.

Out of the Void.In complete darkness, the presence of light is a synonym of life.

An insomoniac is kept awake by her partner’s odd habit of singing in his sleep.

The daily routine blinds us to opportunities that lead us to realizing our dreams.

TAKING LIGHT Eran David Hanlon, USA, 2008

Exploration of the disembodied within a surreal landscape of otherness.

A response to the 20^th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo Astrid Riecken.

Filmed indoors, underwater and at sand dunes. An expressionistic journey that follows a dancer’s pregnancy. The video is a sensual and visual poem celebrating life that evokes the magical and transformational nature of creation.

Directed by choreographer Jody Oberfelder, Lineage contrasts the lines of our bodies with lines in landscapes – imprints of time in nature and human nature, from tabula rasa to wrinkles. Martha Myers, 80 years old, looks through time passed. The dancers are her heroes and memories of time passed. Photo: Jillian Patterson

Four Men Share an apartment, unaware of each others presence.  They are all one and the same man at different stages of his life.

What the Dance Floor means to students of The Wooden Floor.

www.thewoodenfloor.org

Collection of dance films geared for young audiences.