Shorts Prog 2: The Feels

Shorts Block

October 28, 2023

¡Dímelo Rapeando!
Dir. Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Germany | Cuba

Where daily practices become ritual, repetitive, looped, and sequenced. A transatlantic, experimental Hip-Hop collaboration between Germany and Cuba…Read More

 

Dance Lime
Dir. Juliette McCawley
Trinidad & Tobago

Dance and music come together on a hot summer night on the Island of Trinidad, as Caribbean creatives share their feelings on identity and the bonds of culture…Read More

 

Felt But Never Glimpsed
Clavia McClain
The Bahamas

Paradise is nice but the mundane is truly real and worthy. We feel this intrinsically and yet we never fully realize it, experience it, live it out. Felt but never glimpsed. It’s time we celebrate what is and who we are, our everyday, in its rawest form…Read More

 

Bomba Ancestral
Dir. Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Puerto Rico

We gathered on the beach. The moon was full and we could feel the connection to the four elements. The FIRE that purifies, WATER, AIR and EARTH. Honoring all of our ancestors from whom we inherited this beautiful dance of Bomba…Read More

 

Jonkonnu Nuh Dead
Dir. Ryan Eccleston
Jamaica

Jonkonnu Nuh Dead is a dream like exploration into the world of Carlton Walters’ experiences into what drew him to the world of traditional masquerade. It is one of the oldest dance forms found in Jamaica, but over the decades it has been marginalized…Read More

 

Something More than Masquerade
Dir. Shamica Ruddock
UK

Here we meet a young boy dressed as Pierrot Grenade as he reflects on how with contemporary carnival celebrations—such as Notting Hill Carnival which features—many fail to realise these origins…Read More

 

Burnt Milk
Dir. by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst
UK/Jamaica

Burnt Milk centers around Una (voiced by Tamara Lawrance), an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, working as a nurse on a maternity ward. Read More …