
The 2nd edition MUSIC DANCE SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL CONSONANCE
The 2nd live screenings film festival for music dance videos and films
When:
June 23rd-24th, 2023
PRESELECTED FILMS
VIDEOMUSIKING AL ÁNDALUS
Italy
2022
Runtime, min
71
Documentary, Feature, Music Video, documentary, music film, ethnographic film, research film
Director:
Dario Ranocchiari
The film tells the story of three groups of Sufi music, Mediterranean fusion and rap, who accept the challenge of the ethnographer-filmmaker of producing each one a videoclip.
CANNIBALIZING THE CONDUCTOR
Germany
2022
Runtime, min
30
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Dance, hybrid, horror, art, trance
Directors:
Derek Howard, Emma W. Howes, Justin F Kennedy
Cannibalizing the Conductor is a hybrid film that combines dance with narrative and documentary filmmaking techniques to encourage deep observation of trance.
LOS XEY, A REAL MOVIE HISTORY
Argentina, Mexico, Spain
2022
Runtime, min
96
Documentary, Blues, Classical, Flamenco, Folk, Jazz, Music
Directors:
Eneko Olasagasti, David Berraondo
Los Xey was one of the most famous musical groups worldwide. Viewed through today’s eyes, it’s difficult to gauge the musical career and life these Basques enjoyed from their creation in 1940 until they disbanded in 1961.
劫, SELF-DECONSTRUCTION
United States
2021
Runtime, min
10
Experimental, Short, Student, Other, Dance film, thriller, horror, Mystery, dance, film, mfafilm, women, womenfilmmaker
Director:
Linxin "Kisa" Li
The film follows the journey of the protagonist (Kisa), who has severe mental disorders: depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia.
ECHOS IN MOUNT WA
China
2023
Runtime, min
47
Documentary, Music
Director:
Pengyu Li
This film portrays the journey of Lao You, the leader of the "Cave Living band" in Yunnan Province, adapting Wa folk music into pop music, while reflecting on and exploring the original culture of the Chinese Wa ethnic group.
BIND
Ireland
2022
Runtime, min
14
Short, Dance, Music
Director:
Eileen Mcclory
A sumptuous poetry and dance film set in the exquisite Robinson Library in Armagh, BIND explores the legacy of binds between past and present, the tension between elevation, elites and access to knowledge, progress and change, the visibility and constraints on women, and how a visionary institution contributes to progress in the modern world.
DISPARATE FRAGMENTS FORM PATTERNS
Australia
2022
Runtime, min
4
Animation, Experimental, Art, Classical, Ecology, Electronic, Environmental, Music, Nature, Peace, Spiritual
Director:
Paul Fletcher
A mysterious, intricate but simple sensory journey or moment of reflection. Isolated units or acts of positive action, kindness, interesting forms shapes and colors, while at first may seem like a patchwork of disconnected or even random features, actually find strength as they emerge and are noticed as patterns.
REVELATION
Italy
2021
Runtime, min
4
Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Blues, Classical, Identity, Jazz, Music, Poetry, Politics
Director:
Michele Bernardi
Allegorically, this can all represent the invitation to listen to one's conscience, one's one's vocation, listening to one's instincts or even listening to the people who are close to us: it is an awareness, a new awareness of ourselves or of what is surroundings.