Dance Camera West
OVID is proud to present yearly selections from Dance Camera West. DCW is an internationally renowned Los Angeles-based film festival committed to exploring dance in the context of cinema.
“Where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic!” —The New York Times
“Impressive, playful, haunting, sophisticated, sublime, wonderful!” —Dance Magazine
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Best of Fest 2 - Second Seed
Directed by Baye & Asa • Experimental Short • 2021 • 16 minutes
Second Seed is a dance horror film responding to D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Griffith's film is a veneration of the KKK, painting the Klan as saviors of a white race in danger as American culture and politics begin to shi...
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Best of Fest 2 - Lost Horse: Asaf Avidan
Directed by Adi Halfin • Experimental Short • 2021 • 3 minutes
Armed with their own camera, modern dance power-couple Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber set about documenting their intimate daily lives in a new genre of “Musical” style documentary.
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Best of Fest 2 - The King
Directed by Jonathan Redavid • Experimental Short • 2021 • 4 minutes
"A Tribute to The King of Rock’n Roll."
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Best of Fest 2 - Being
Directed by Pablo Destito • Experimental Short • 2021 • 7 minutes
Being captures the restorative power that draws the dancer to the dance. Away from a life of sidewalks and cellphones, where beauty is unnoticed, time stops so it may start again. The dance restores the self, and the senses reconn...
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Best of Fest 2 - The Circadian Cycle
Directed by Garry Stewart • Experimental Short • 2021 • 16 minutes
The Circadian Cycle is a short film conceived and directed by Garry Stewart, with cinematography from renowned director and film maker Cordelia Beresford. Filmed within the stunning South Australian landscape, The Circadian Cycle...
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Best of Fest 1 - 4
Directed by Mariana Palacios • Documentary • 2021 • 12 minutes
4 is an experimental short film featuring music & dance that brings the audience to a research space to identify the source of balance and proportions in the combined art forms. Two pianists and two dancers travel together in a retro...
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L'AMOUR! - Winter Grew Cold
Directed by Cati Jean and Desi Jevon • Documentary • 2021 • 6 minutes
A reminisce of a man's true love that got away before taking his last breath.
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New Inspiration - Floor Falls
Directed by Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay, Abby Warrilow • Documentary • 2021 • 3 minutes
Floor Falls is a collaboration between award winning film makers Lewis Gourlay and Abby Warrilow of Cagoule and aerial dance choreographer Jennifer Paterson of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, featur...
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New Inspiration - A Hard Day's Night
Directed by Benjamin Hoffman, Mathieu Mondoulet • Documentary • 2021 • 4 minutes
This film is a two-way street between architecture and modern dance. It was shot in the very famous Jean Daladier abandoned houses in Burgundy, France with the wonderful dancer and choreographer Thibaut Eiferman for...
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New Inspiration - Pas De Quoi
Directed by Paulo Filipe Monteiro • Documentary • 2021 • 11 minutes
A ferryboat. A meeting between two souls. Hurdles and shadows keep being overcome until the end. Bodies always striving to breathe along the way.
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New Inspiration - Waters Into Wilderness
Directed by Quinn Wharton • Documentary • 2021 • 4 minutes
A short dance film looking at the impact of community space when its not filled with the community. Featuring LED, choreographed by Lauren Edson, Danced by Brett Perry, and music by Andrew Stensaas.
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New Inspiration - Hofesh Shechter's Clowns
Directed by Hofesh Shechter • Documentary • 2021 • 28 minutes
Hofesh Shechter's Clowns is a dance film that plays out a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far we will go in the name of entertainment. Directed, choreographed and composed by Hofesh Shechter, it combines bold, exhilara...
