Documentary • 2024 • 100 minutes

Dance Camera West presents the 22nd edition of its internationally renowned Los Angeles-based film festival committed to exploring dance in the context of cinema. The films in this collection are- Offering - directed by Marlene Millar, Sany Silva; Canada. Creates...

Documentary • 2023 • 82 minutes

OVID is proud to present a selection of the 2023 experimental shorts program for Dance Camera West, a festival that aims to foster ground-breaking creation of dance film.

Yurodivy - directed by Ryan Renshaw, choreography by Kyle Page. Based upon the legend of Sis...

Documentary • 2022 • 75 minutes

Featuring behind-the-scenes, rehearsals and personal stories of the artists we often only see on stage. Learn how dances are made from the people who make them. As Covid shutdowns forced dancers to take time away from performances, they used the time and space to ...

Documentary • 2022 • 33 minutes

DCW received a NEA grant to mentor BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists. The participants were shortlisted from the three LA based dance festivals with the potential for a strong cinematic impact on the choreography by partnering them with experience...

Documentary • 2022 • 150 minutes

International Shorts Programs features short experimental dance films from Canada, U.S., Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Iran, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom.

On Mending, Dir. Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Emilie Louise Leriche, Italy,14:55,Color
In Plain...

Directed by Talia Woodland • Documentary • 2021 • 15 minutes

Showcasing one of Toronto’s best up and coming Hiphop dancing stars, All It Gives follows the story of Kosi Eze, a Nigerian immigrant who moved to Canada when she was 14. Her transition to the country brought immense culture shock, lon...

Directed by Orit Novak • Documentary • 2021 • 21 minutes

‘CHEN’ tells the story of Chinese Australian dancer Chengwu Guo (Chen), who at the age of 10 was thrown into the strict and rigorous training world of the Beijing Dance Academy. Whilst enduring long periods of time away from his family and...

Directed by Marcat Dance & Mario Bermudez Gil • Documentary • 2021 • 10 minutes

A stage piece.

Directed by Matthew McKee • Documentary • 2021 • 6 minutes

A short dance film inspired by themes of loss and conflict.

Directed by Amélie Gagnon, Julia-Maude Cloutier • Documentary • 2021 • 6 minutes

It is carried by a reflection on the interior and exterior places. Two women-landscapes merge into one another and transpose themselves into distinct places, from winter landscapes to squeaky uninhabited places, in ...

Directed by Alayna Jennings • Documentary • 2021 • 3 minutes

Domestic Violence has an extensive and painful impact. Nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States alone. On any given day there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic viol...

Directed by Lois Norman • Documentary • 2021 • 6 minutes

Swivel is a short gender fluid dance story by Award winning director Lois Norman, starring the trailblazing Iron&Sparks.

Directed by Tuixén Benet • Documentary • 2021 • 8 minutes

Through a dialogue between movement and landscape, Lazarus reflects on the objectification of the woman body in film. The famous quote by Edgar Allan Poe "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the w...

Directed by Henrique Pina • Documentary • 2021 • 50 minutes

Outstanding Achievement Award-Winning Film!

BODY-BUILDINGS brings together dance, architecture and cinema, merging identities and concepts. Six choreographies — by Tânia Carvalho; Vera Mantero; Victor Hugo Pontes; Jonas & Lander; Olga ...

Directed by Cass Mortimer Eipper • Experimental Short • 2021 • 6 minutes

‘Id’ follows six dancers in communion, each driven by their own instinctive impulses which manifest fast and slow. Propelled like machines through dispositions and space, oscillations of awareness illuminate shared conflict...

Directed by Rachel Barker • Experimental Short • 2021 • 6 minutes

This dance film shot in Moab, Utah explores relationship between the moving body and outdoor environment, asking "what movement belongs here"? How are our bodies and physical histories connected to the landscapes that resonate wit...

Directed by Alex Murrull • Experimental Short • 2021 • 10 minutes

Two strangers share a room for hours in different shifts. Their loneliness is broken as they both find each other’s objects. A relationship that inhabits between fantasy and reality emerges.

Directed by Adi Halfin • Documentary • 2021 • 4 minutes

Earth Odyssey was made by dancers from different continents filming themselves in their confinement with their personal phones and computers. It was made in the first week of April 2020 while almost 2 billion people around the globe were un...

Directed by Henrique Pina • Documentary • 2021 • 10 minutes

"Beast" portrays an encounter between the choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes and Braga Municipal Stadium, by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Order and disorder. Men and beasts in flocks. Wild conquest among mute roars. Concrete and ...

Directed by Jennifer Petuch & Annali Rose • Documentary • 2021 • 7 minutes

Liminality is inspired by reimagining what Odette may have experienced upon plunging to her death in the lake from the classical ballet "Swan Lake". It is a moment of suspended reality and a story of disenchantment, self-...

Directed by Holger Mohaupt • Experimental Short • 2021 • 3 minutes

A physical response to the memory of architecture set in the ruins of an abandoned paintball arena in Scotland.

Directed by Heidi Duckler • Documentary • 2021 • 13 minutes

In November 2019 Heidi Duckler Dance performed as part of the international programming at the Centro de Experimentación Escénica in Valdivia and at the LOFT International Dance Festival in Concepción, Chile. The company arrived at a ti...

Directed by Henrique Pina • Experimental Short • 2021 • 8 minutes

"Dusk" portrays an encounter between the choreographer Olga Roriz and Mudas – Contemporary Art Museum, in Madeira island, by the architect Paulo David. Horizon. Sea. Sky. Rock over the sea. A spiralling run from an interior to an ...

Directed by Robbie Synge • Experimental Short • 2021 • 5 minutes

Shot in Abernethy Forest in The Cairngorms, “Forest Floor” considers different bodies and physical access challenges in a rural location. Close friends Julie and Robbie sit quietly together on the ground, a simple idea requiring a ...