About Us
The Moving Body–Moving Image Biennale Festival gives voice to societal and social justice themes in the hybrid form of dance filmmaking, known as ScreenDance. The Festival was founded in 2018 by Gabri Christa, who is also the curator. Each Festival includes film screenings, installations, and roundtable discussion with guest speakers.
The inaugural Festival explored the depiction of the Moving Brown Body on screen. After a successful opening at Barnard College, the 2018 Festival went on to tour at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC and at Screendance Miami, where it was presented at the Perez Arts Museum Miami (PAMM).
The 2020 Moving Body–Moving Image Festival, while initially conceived as a live event, was moved to place completely online, taking advantage of widespread and freely accessible platforms to help ensure equitable access. The 2020 Festival focused on representations of Aging & Othering on screen and in society, and its astonishing reception proved how important showing curated films around a social theme can be (11,231 Festival Page visits and 5,265 views from a total of 61 different countries).
The 2022 Festival focused on the Moving Body with Disabilities on screen was a 3-part hybrid event including a week-long Live Installation at the Barnard College Movement Lab, a Main Live Screening Event at the Barnard College Glicker Milstein Theater on April 3rd from 12-6pm EST, and Online Screening Access to all films from April 3rd-11th. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us both in-person and online!
Questions & Festival Touring Requests
Contact Us:
moving.body.moving.image@gmail.com
The 2022 Team
Gabri Christa
Festival Director, Producer & Curator
Guy de Lancey
Program Technologist, Installation Designer, & Adjudicator
Allison Costa
Associate Producer & Website Designer / Developer
Josalynn Smith
Assistant Producer & Adjudicator
Noa Rui-Piin Weiss
Assistant Producer
Katie Glasner
Artist Liaison
Abby Lee
Editor
Diane Roe
Administrator, Dance Department Assistant
Emily Alexander
Finances
David Linton
Audio Description
Yo-Yo Lin
Adjudicator
Marjorie Burnett
Adjudicator