Open Form by M.Lohrum X Calvin Richardson

Open Form is a collaboration between visual artist M.Lohrum and dancer and choreographer Calvin Richardson exploring the intersection between dance and performative drawing. Filmed by Ray Moody, the short film captures the two artists exploring the potential of their bodily gestures as well as the resulting marks in a kind of ‘open form’. The piece investigates perception and the limitations of the body, as well as understanding dance as a form of corporal expression without the need to necessarily create ‘beautiful’ shapes, but rather explore the possibilities of movement. At the same time, drawing here is used as a way to record a trace of these movements, without pretending to represent a pre-defined ‘figure’. The film is accompanied by the song Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds, composed and performed by Quinta.

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Hinge Girlband by Nadine Muncey

A first date from an app is hard. It’s energy, it’s time and, more often than not, it’s comedy. Between the crazed-euphoric intensity of projecting one’s self into a highly romanticised future and remaining logical and steadfast, there is a sweet spot, where a first date feels good and energetic. Hinge Girlband by Nadine Muncey channels that ‘high on life' energy - looking at the space between the nostalgia of a phenomenal first date and the future unknown of where a relationship could go. Through feel good, physical ensemble movement, the film tries to capture that hopeful, beautiful moment of possibility. With an all female identifying team, this work was created and filmed in only two hours.

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Home Improvement by Rebecca Moss

Home Improvement is a video work by Essex-based artist Rebecca Moss. During the covid pandemic lockdown of 2021, Moss built a low-fi smile machine in her back garden in Romford, using a variety of everyday household objects such as buckets and coat hangers. When activated by the artist, who performs in the work, the buckets slowly fill with water, pulling the mechanism and contorting her face into a smile that becomes increasingly torturous over time. Home Improvement was originally commissioned by Jerwood Foundation for Survey II, an exhibition that toured to g39 in Cardiff, Site Gallery in Sheffield, and Jerwood Gallery in London.

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Excavation by Ella Posti

Excavation is a collaboration between a Finnish construction company HV-Maarakennus and a dancer Ella Posti. The film captures an excavator and a dancer in a duet. This work delves into the relationship between the human body and the machine, exploring how both can simultaneously embody immense power and delicate sensitivity. Excavation breathes life into the excavator and explores the possibilities of the human-machine connection through a posthumanist perspective. What does it mean for a human and excavator to engage in physical contact? How can they show care and support for each other and on the other hand seek autonomy from one another?

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Prelude: A recounting of two futures & a past by Anouk Jouanne X Scarlett Gardner

Prelude: A recounting of two futures & a past is a surreal depiction of atmospheres within partnerships. Shown through glimpses of moments represented by two semi-anonymous beings, seemingly belonging to 'nowhere' and 'no time'. Created in collaboration by director Anouk Jouanne and director of photography Scarlett Gardner, the concept of the film is born from an experiment of analogue filmmaking. Working together with dancers Carly Oskar and Samara Langham, the film depicts themes of trust, care, independence and self-assurance through movement and imagery. The piece is accompanied with an original improvised track by composer Joanna Ward.