Open Call Shorts & Invited Short Film
Join Miami Light Project at Perez Art Museum Miami for our Open Call Official Selections featuring two programs of short films selected by the ScreenDance Miami Festival director and panelists.
Screenings included with Museum Admission.
Program 1 • 12:00 pm
The Rooster (2023, 8 mins, Florida Premiere)
Rolly Dib, Chadi Younes
“In our neighborhood, lives a rooster. In our neighborhood, lives a sadist slaying rooster!” Based on Nizar Qabbani’s poem AL Deek (The Rooster), this dance film experiments with the Baladi form to portray the journey of a dictator’s rise to power and their inevitable downfall.
Batientes (2024, 2 mins)
Roxana Barba, Claudio Marcotulli
Batiente: part of the frame of a door, a window or something similar, where it stops and beats when it closes.
Immortelles (2023, 5 mins, Florida Premiere)
Bettina Szabo, Mark Durand
Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature.
Inter-Library Loan (2024, 8 mins, Florida Premiere)
Marta Renzi with Dancers
From quiet reading to rambunctious display, 15 members of the Rhode Island College Dance Company inhabit elegant spaces in the Providence Public Library.
Sameness: Magnificence (2023, 10 mins, Florida Premiere)
Jacqueline Cousineau, Alana Waksman
One woman: two worlds. How do they collide? A woman is stuck in a claustrophobic sameness. She is magnificently present. She finds her strength in the softness of air and light. It is between the push and pull of the two worlds that she can become herself.
M E S A (2023, 5 mins, World Premiere)
Syncopate Collective
Spellbound (2024, 5 min, World Premiere)
Nicola Hepp
A woman walks slowly through a dark, untouched forest, following a figure she can’t quite see. Uncertain if she is being pursued, regret sets in as she realizes her desperate escape might have been a mistake. Approaching the point of no return, she is drawn into a dire decision.
Silencio (2024, 2 mins, World Premiere)
Cristina Candela
A dreamy encounter in New York´s high line over an Alegria´s silencio. As in traditional flamenco this is a dialogue between guitar and dance, adding the camera and the New Yorks´s horizon to the conversation
SOURCE (2023, 5 mins, World Premiere)
Mike Tyus, Luca Renzi
Like the oceans of the world pumping water through the veins of the earth, the heart is the source of human life. It’s the symbol of love and courage. When we act from our hearts, we are connected to the source of life that is found in all things.
>> Total length: 1 hr 5 min + a brief conversation with the filmmakers
Program 2 • 2:00 pm
Kankantri (2024, 25 min, Florida Premiere)
Gabri Christa
In “Kankantri (The Silk Cotton Tree),” a woman is transported to the parallel universe of all her different ancestors where she dances and takes part in rituals until she feels whole.
>>> Total length: 25 min
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Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.