A program of documentary-leaning short films!
Don’t miss this screening featuring work by some artists and companies long in residence at The Light Box, this program also includes additional shorts and a post-screening conversation with the filmmakers.
Organism – Colette Krogol & Matt Reeves (2025, 14 min, FL Premiere)
‘Organism’ explores the friction between human essence and the accelerating pace of the modern world. Centered on a towering pipe organ, dancers erupt with precision, fluidity, and urgency, drawn into orbit by its gravitational pull. Movement emerges not from memory or myth, but from the body’s relentless drive to respond.
W – Lisa Kusanagi & Li-Chin Li (2025, 2 min, World Premiere)
As an overture to our long-term performance research, “W” interrogates the theatrical archetypes of “virgins, witches, and bitches” reductive roles that have defined women across generations. Through feminist and embodied inquiry, this non-verbal work blurs ritual and reality, tracing inherited expectations and silent resistances inscribed in women’s bodies.
your love:beside me – Ali Kenner Brodsky, Rich Ferri (2025, 12 min, FL Premiere)
your love: beside me is a triptych of short dance films that captures the life cycle of love. These works are a film adaptation of three live performance duets created and choreographed by Ali Kenner Brodsky and performed by Jessi Stegall & Ilya Vidrin with music composed by MorganEve Swain.
Grass Stains 2024 – Alexa Caravia & Pioneer Winter, (2024, 6 min)
Grass Stains is a site-specific initiative created by Pioneer Winter that focuses on pairing mentoring with creative process in order to perpetuate site-specific, site-adaptive, and public art works that live outside the boundaries of a traditional space or commission. Beyond the culminating performances, the desire is to facilitate a full experience that focuses on and invests in re/developing site-driven choreographic and transdisciplinary inquiry. Dance cannot ignore context; nor is it merely decorative. This means having deliberate conversations about notions of performance and productivity though race, class, access, and geography.
Adele Myers and Dancers Presents: Miami DanceMakers Documentary – Enrique Villacreses, Adele Myers, Erika Loyola, Clinton Harris and Cecilia Benitez (2024, 13 min)
This film included interviews with MDM Director, Adele Myers and each artist about the program and their creative process. Contextualizing what the audience were about to see at PAMM before the live performance by offering a framework about the source of inspiration and their artistic process.
Raison D’être – Randy Valdes (2024, 10 min)
A short film commissioned by Miami Light Project for Here and Now Artists.
Somber Tides – Chantal Caron (2024, 11 min, US Premiere)
Somber Tides is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements. One last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
> Total length: 57 min + conversation with filmmakers
We are accessible and assistive listening devices are available. To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
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.