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Primal touch is screening in Saturday September 11, 2025, 7:00 pm Program
Primal touch is a dance film exploring the invisible bonds between people. Through three bodies in motion, the work traces different ways of being close — yearning for fusion, fearing loss, needing distance. Each character moves through their own emotional logic, shaped by the silent patterns of attachment.
Dancers:
Aurora Mitsiani
Elke Kalupar
László Sandig
Camera:
Bren Vasquez
Music:
Safam
Colour:
Shaffim Rohan
Director Biography
Anastasia Shikina is a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker and creative producer with over 7 years of experience exploring stories that move — not always loudly, but deeply.
Anastasia’s work is rooted in connection — with people, places, gestures, and the quiet things we feel but don’t always say. She’s drawn to stories that are intimate, sometimes raw,
and always honest.
Whether it’s a documentary, a branded content, a dance film, or something in-between, she creates space for the story to breathe — and unfold at its own pace.
Director Statement
Primal Touch is a physical exploration of attachment theory. I’ve always been fascinated by how our early emotional patterns shape the ways we seek closeness, navigate intimacy, and respond to vulnerability.
The choreography in this film mirrors the push-and-pull dynamic of human relationships: moments of longing and hesitation, approach and withdrawal, attunement and rupture. Dance becomes the language through which attachment styles manifest — anxious reachings, avoidant retreats, moments of synchrony and collapse.
Rather than telling a linear story, I wanted to evoke an emotional landscape where the body speaks first — before thought, before words. “Primal” refers to the instinctive, embodied responses we carry; “Touch” to the emotional resonance of contact, connection, and its absence.
Primal Touch is not about resolving these dynamics, but about recognizing them — in motion, in stillness, in the spaces between three bodies.
Ratings
- Year2025
- Runtime5:30
- CountryGermany
Primal touch is screening in Saturday September 11, 2025, 7:00 pm Program
Primal touch is a dance film exploring the invisible bonds between people. Through three bodies in motion, the work traces different ways of being close — yearning for fusion, fearing loss, needing distance. Each character moves through their own emotional logic, shaped by the silent patterns of attachment.
Dancers:
Aurora Mitsiani
Elke Kalupar
László Sandig
Camera:
Bren Vasquez
Music:
Safam
Colour:
Shaffim Rohan
Director Biography
Anastasia Shikina is a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker and creative producer with over 7 years of experience exploring stories that move — not always loudly, but deeply.
Anastasia’s work is rooted in connection — with people, places, gestures, and the quiet things we feel but don’t always say. She’s drawn to stories that are intimate, sometimes raw,
and always honest.
Whether it’s a documentary, a branded content, a dance film, or something in-between, she creates space for the story to breathe — and unfold at its own pace.
Director Statement
Primal Touch is a physical exploration of attachment theory. I’ve always been fascinated by how our early emotional patterns shape the ways we seek closeness, navigate intimacy, and respond to vulnerability.
The choreography in this film mirrors the push-and-pull dynamic of human relationships: moments of longing and hesitation, approach and withdrawal, attunement and rupture. Dance becomes the language through which attachment styles manifest — anxious reachings, avoidant retreats, moments of synchrony and collapse.
Rather than telling a linear story, I wanted to evoke an emotional landscape where the body speaks first — before thought, before words. “Primal” refers to the instinctive, embodied responses we carry; “Touch” to the emotional resonance of contact, connection, and its absence.
Primal Touch is not about resolving these dynamics, but about recognizing them — in motion, in stillness, in the spaces between three bodies.
Ratings
- Year2025
- Runtime5:30
- CountryGermany