CreateART Dance Film Night - AUGUST

CreateART Dance Film Night

Tuesday, August 13th

Doors 7:30pm // Films 8:00pm

@Millennium Film Workshop

167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Suggested donation $15

About:

CreateART invites you to kick off our 2024 dance film screening series with our first program: The Surreal in Shadow. This collection of films delve into fantastical, dark and curious new worlds, pushing the medium of dance film into new territories. Please join us for a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers led by curatorial team member Julia Discenza.

CreateART Dance Film Nights and Dance Film Incubator are sponsored, in part, by Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Featured films:

AGITA

AGITA | 2021 [AGITA — aj·​i·​ta | \ ˈa-jə-tə : a feeling of agitation or anxiety.]

Brad Tang, an Asian American male in his mid-30's, seemingly alone in his Brooklyn apartment, begins to experience sinister visions of a former self. Part horror short, part psychological thriller, AGITA brings to light severe panic disorder and an oncoming episodic anxiety attack. Directed by Peter Cheng.

BKM008

The daily life of a wandering soul. Directed by Enrique Villacreses.

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony follows a businessman and dancer roused from their daily routines to undertake a playful journey through Upper Manhattan. Via a magical portal, they soon find themselves surrounded by a troupe of bohemian artists, tricksters, and fools inspired by the free-wheeling spontaneous style of French New Wave cinema. Directed by Manon Manavit

Up To The Light

A pair wrestles with the contradictions of their evolving needs for privacy and intimacy in a surreal overnight encounter. Through a blend of site specific improvisation and narrative world building, Up To The Light leans into the ambiguity of the relationship between these two men and their entanglement with the house that seemingly envelopes them. Created by Piper Morrison & Jonah Belsky.

These Waters Bleed Deep

This is the first short film in a trilogy titled “Fluid.” “These Waters Bleed Deep” touches on the psychological and physical turmoil that the enslaved African people faced as they crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, a tragic journey known as the Middle Passage. Still, we want to bring to light the vivacious splendor that is the African culture. Through dance, fashion, lighting, and spoken word, this project aims to show the horrors of the past and the magnificence of what is and can be. Directed by Michael Bishop.