Silent Salvoes
2003/ 10'
director, choreographer, editing: Ana Baer. music: Victor Jendres. photography: Victor Jendras / Ana Baer, Juki Ojika. production: Ana Baer. USA
Silent Salvoes is a silent cry, a rare film experience: sound, image and subject matter achieve a harmony that makes spectators uncomfortable instead of seducing them. The house as a metaphor for the world that is torn apart and removed behind barbed wire, the female body that barely allows a glimpse of protest behind subtle movements, all these create a moving dramatic background seen through a woman's eyes, and along with an extraordinary image processing make for an extraordinary film.
Silent Salvoes is a collaboration between filmmaker Victor Jendras and video maker Ana Baer. Victor Jendras received a Film Degree from Colorado University. Ana Baer has been creating video at the Boulder Community for 5 years. Being a dancer, she has taken up the video dance route.

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Soluble Self
2003/ 19'
director, choreographer: Vanessa Fassie. performers: Amy Frost / Meredith Glisson. production: Vanessa Fassie. USA
"This video was created for the completion of my thesis. It was played live during a multimedia performance at the Hollins University Theatre. The performance involved modern dance/video and sound.The full title of my thesis is: Soluble Self: Discerning Identity in a Technologically Enchanted Society.
During the process of creation I was interested in creating a continuous visual landscape that would not undermine the movement of my dancers. The environment was one that deceptively appeared seamless and effortless. However it is a place filled with isolation, tension, and disconnection. I created an environment that criticized and supported our use of technology for connection. The one medium that was outside of this technology was the physical use of the body in time and space.
I feel that Soluble Self is solely about the beginning of a process of communication (with ourselves/ the world around us).
My greatest motivation is to somehow engage the audience through my work by altering their conception of space and time. This time of reflection is needed to understand the work and our world."
V.F.

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Lincoln in the Hood
2002/ 4'
director, choreographer, photography, editing: Arianne Hoffmann. music: "Τhe Revolution will not be Televised" by Gil Scott - Heron. performers: A. H.'s left hand as "finger dude". production: Arianne Hoffmann. USA
" A grainy, imaginary encounter of Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator of the Slaves, and today's racially motivated police violence. Lincoln, or my left hand, is skating through the Τhood and becomes the eyewitness of the police beating of a 16-year Donovan Jackson at a gas station in Los Angeles in June 2002. Lincoln gets chased after, just like the amateur photographer who happened to have filmed the incident, but gets away through the LA River.
Outraged by police violence, I decided to take action with Fingerdude Π an activist element in most of my latest performance art pieces. I was interested in exploring the issue on a different scale, using representations (such as: the hand representing Lincoln, known in history as the "emancipator"; or the news footage representing the actual conflict; or images representing LAΙ)"

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No One
2004/ 15'
director, choreographer, editing: Arielle Javitch. music: sound designer: Matt Rocker. photography:Zachary Levy. performers: Hristoula Harakas, Anee Lentz, Takemi Kitamura, Johari Mayfield, Paulina Danilczyk. production: Arielle Javitch. USA
No One is a visual meditation on the genocides that occurred in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s and the response of the international community.
Arielle Javitch lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first film.

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Weapons Factory
2004/ 4'
director, photography, editing: production: Stephane Berla, music: OTX. performers: Brume Records Π the machines. production: Stephane Berla. France
The destruction of a weapons factory.
Stephane Berla is hyperactive and impassioned by all forms of creativity. He was quick to realise that the only way that enables someone to do everything was to be a filmmaker! Since then, he has produced many shorts, always different and always creating their own, unique universe.

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Continuum
2004/ 6'
director, choreographer, editing: Chris Clow. music: Ruby Colley. performer: Laura Dredger. UK
" Continuum" was part of a video/live performance installation, situated in two separate rooms, in which what was happening in the street through the choreography and was shown in one room, was exactly repeated in the other as a live dance.
The film is about consciousness and not accepting what is considered as "the norm".

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Vox Populi
2004/ 18'
director, editing: Richard Sylvarnes. choreographer, performer: David Neumann. music: Sylvarluxe. production: Richard Sylvarnes. USA
Vox Populi captures in sound and movement the angry and silenced voices of opposition to the Iraqi war within America. The music was made by the band Sylvarluxe and uses recordings from a peaceful turned violent anti war protest in New York. Miho Miho designed the costume specifically for this piece.
Vox Populi is a uniquely created experimental dance piece for the camera. It is described as a true collaboration between an editor and dancer wherein the dancer's movements are heavily manipulated in the editing process.
Richard Sylvarnes is an experimental and narrative filmmaker and photographer. His first feature film "The Cloud of Unknowing" was produced by Hal Hartley. David Neumann is a Bessie award winning dancer/choreographer. His choreography has been seen in works by Laurie Anderson. Miho Nikaido is a fashion designer. His company Miho Miho was launched in 2001.

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[left] between us
2004/ 35'
director, choreographer: Luc Dunberry. performers: Davide Camplani, ClŽmentine Deluy, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Jo Dudley, Luc Dunberry, Cristin Kšnig, Grayson Millwood, Alexander Schršder, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Michaela Steiger, Sigal Zouk-Harder. production: Luc Dunberry, SchaubŸhne am Lehniner Platz. Germany
Ten characters meet for a special event. Is it a party, a gala, a contest? (The TV is here anyway so just look your best!) Amongst them, friends and strangers, winners and losers, sweets and sours, all wanting something different: change, fame, happiness? All their desires, longings, ambitions and phobias are bubbling up as the champagne is being served.
Meetings occur, partings as well. Business or private, social conventions lead them through the moves but there's something nasty scratching in the corners.
As the night progresses, we'll lose most of them to it, unresolved. The next day might bring a little hint of hope...

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