Installation Films
The Moving Body-Moving Image Team is committed to making the Festival as accessible as possible. All of the films with dialogue have integrated open captions. To access the audio description version of the films please go to the Installation Films Audio Description page.
Re:collections / 再次·回顧
USA | 2021 | 20:48
Director and Writer: Yo-Yo Lin
Translator: Annette An-Jen Liu
Music: Despina
Re:collections / 再次·回顧 remembers lost language in the body, across land and in alternate universes. Following a recent return to the artist’s motherland in Taiwan during the pandemic, the film is a first-person account of returning to a site of medical and familial trauma years later. Moving through the artist’s intimate thoughts, Re:collections explores the fallibility of time and ambiguousness of placehood in an ever-shifting disabled, immigrant body. Melding together new media performance, self-documentary, and frameworks of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Taoist cosmology, the film interweaves the mundane with the magical, offering openings for grief, wonder and radical multiplicity.
Sense-8
Scotland | 2001 | 10:40
Director: Katrina McPherson
Camera Team: Neville Kidd, Simon Fildes, Katrina McPherson, Rick Nodine, Steven Mochrie
Soundtrack: John Cobban
Movement Director: Katy Dymoke
Dancers: Jo Blowers, Katy Dymoke, Alan Foster, Jovair Longo, Ricky Nodine, Mary Prestidge, Scott Smith, Holly Thomas
Multiple layers of perception emerge through the moving cameras, editing and soundtrack, creating a multi-perspective experience of contact improvisation dance. Sense-8 is a moving image production experimenting with light, dark and color to capture moving bodies, with integrated audio description and amplified movement sound. Filmed using multiple cameras including CCTV, hand-held and dolly. For visually impaired audiences. Sense-8 was made with Touchdown Dance, working with sighted and visually impaired dancers, and was commissioned as part of the Arts Council England’s ‘Capture’ series in 2001.
Yo Obsolete
USA | 2021 | 23:40
Installation, Writer, Designer, Audio Description, and Performer: Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
Cinematographer and Editor: Alex Romania
Sound: Danny Cudd, Edward Karl Hanson, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
Childhood memories intertwined with intergenerational trauma. Escapism from reality to worlds of fantasy and symbolism. Parallels between the mystical and embodied experiences. Yo Obsolete meditates on the intersections of imagination in disabled children as a survival mechanism and experimental Audio Description. The film navigates through altered states of consciousness, reaching deep levels of ancestral memory embodied in the form of poetry, songs, movement, installation, story telling.
Exit Strategy #2
USA | 2017 | 5:18
Director, Producer, Choreographer, and Performer: Kym McDaniel
Thanks to: Cecelia Condit, Carl Bogner, and Jesse Mclean
Audio Description: David Linton
I seek treatment for a head injury and a memory is triggered from years earlier. In resistance to my past ways of coping, I release this stored body memory.The second in a series examining how I dissociate in order to cope with emotional and physical trauma.
Infusion No. 1
USA | 2020 | 3:00
Director, Writer, and Producer: Lauren Henschel
Performer: Lauren Henschel
Audio Description: David Linton
Infusion No. 1 brings consciousness around the “condition,” of residing in the temporary shelter of a body and of the impermanent and illusory concept of being well. The film is hand-processed in my own bodily fluids and medications as a visible reflection of my internal struggle with an invisible disability.
Reading Through the Body
Austria | 2016 | 7:42
Director and Writer: Mersolis Schöne
Reader, Performer: Lena Schramek
Camera, Cut, Sound Design: Christan Venosa
Assistant Director, Dramaturgical Support, Camera Assistant: Emanuel Megersa
Production Assistant, Interviewer: Ronja Thum
Interpreter for Austrian Sign Language: Hanna Boesch
Poem: “O man! Take care!” by Friedrich Nietzche
Audio Description: David Linton
What happens when philosophical thoughts are translated into body movements? Reading Through the Body is a short documentary film. It shows how a woman who is deaf tries to understand and embody a text by Friedrich Nietzsche (from the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra").
