BLACK.ECO | Screendance Films & HAMAPAH/THE MAP DANCE-ON-FILM

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DIRT is a special invitational selection and will not be considered for a People's Choice Award. HAMAPAH/THE MAP DANCE-ON-FILM"

is part of the Short Narrative film category and may receive votes for the People's Choice Award for Best Short Narrative.

Using movement as a force, BLACK.ECO is a dance film that dives into the many worlds that exist within a Black woman.

We open on a self-assured and poetic guide, whose sculptural hair is adorned in constellations. With her invitation,

we dive into four ecosystems that reside within her, each with distinct movement, casting, color and sound worlds exploring

four forms of Black joy. We return to our guide one final time to find her transformed. Touching on the divinity of the body,

sisterhood, and being, BLACK.ECO invites us to experience Black fantasy as a shiny vehicle for transcendence

Year
2021
Runtime
0:12:00
Language
English
Country
United States

Director
Shauna Davis
Screenwriter
Shauna Davis
Producer
Shauna Davis, Anna Bulbrook
Cast
Shauna Davis, David Freeland Jr., Chani Bell, Emara NeyMour-Jackson, Chawnta' Marie Van, Damontae Hack, Derion Loman

9 films in package

Dirt

Through the fusion of text, movement, layered visuals, and sound, this work presents a meditative exploration of identity and Blackness in a heightened time of unrest and uprisings fueled by issues of police brutality and systemic racism in America.

ÌBÀ OBÍNRIN

ÌBÀ OBÍNRIN investigates the influences of ritual, nature and place in Black women's traditional practices to care for community.

BLACK.ECO

Using movement as a force, BLACK.ECO is a dance film that dives into the many worlds that exist within a Black woman.

Des/Aria

Created via online collaboration process between Italy and South Africa, and filmed in March 2021, Des/Aria is one musician and one dancer in conversation.

A'we deh ya (All of us are here)

In a Crucian sugar cane field, three Black women converge, dancing through an inherited liberation code.

Closed captions available

Lacuna

Lacuna traces the unfilled spaces of the brutalist architecture enveloping the dancer. It is a cinematic study of light and shade, seen and unseen.

Melanin Vibes

Melanin Vibes is the discovery and conscious awareness of your skin and being proud of the layers of your existence.

Whiteout

Natasha Gilmore is the founder and Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet, one of Scotland’s most exciting and successful contemporary dance companies. Whiteout gives resonance to the complexities of bi-racial relationships. Informed by her personal experiences as a white European who married a black African and as the mother of bi-racial children, Natasha Gilmore explores this issue with honesty and humour.

HAMAPAH/THE MAP/DANCE-ON-FILM

HAMAPAH/THE MAP DANCE ON-FILM chronicles dancer and choreographer Adam W. McKinney's return to his ancestral homelands of Benin, Poland and United States (Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, and Wisconsin) to trace the intersections of his African, Jewish and Native American heritages.