Dance Camera West is an annual Los Angeles-based film festival that celebrates the world of dance depicted on film. The films selected are from filmmakers around the the world and are quite often premieres. The festival, held in January, is now becoming available for the first time online.
Dance Camera West has partnered with the various filmmakers and Ovid.TV to make over half of this year’s films available. There is a $12 fee, but you will have access to films for one week.
This Virtual Film Festival is divided into five different programs. The first four programs each offer a minimum of 8 films. The fifth program is dedicated to documentaries and there are three in that program. This virtual film festival starts May 14th and continues through June 1st.
Here is a list of what’s available in the various programs:
PROGRAM #1: In the Anchor Print, Wounded Not Conquered, Screaming Shapes, Kopitoto, The Wait Room, HOME, Save Yourself and Bhairava
PROGRAM #2: Cinderella Games, Kota, Unspoken Spoken, Dialectics, Making Men, If I Sound Happy That’s Your Mistake, But First and FÖLD: Sculpted in the Wind
PROGRAM #3: PungJeong.Gak (A Town with a Blue Hill), Goldfish, ALI, About Face, Maids, Mass, Family Portrait and I See Life Through Your Eyes
PROGRAM #4: Vestiges, Some ways to get rid of a body, Bloodrot, Don’t Miss It, Skin I’m In, Humana, OME, Cielo, One Another, Monk and Her Magnum Opus
DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM: Cipher, From There to Here, Three Dances
Dance Camera West always offers challenging and visionary depictions of dance. The films in these programs present a world view not just of dance, but of our time.
You can get more details by clicking on the link in the opening paragraph.
Photo from Wounded Not Conquered (Courtesy of Dance Camera West)