2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival Virtual

Flowers and Bodies - Departures Shorts

Expired October 25, 2022 4:59 AM
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11 films in package
WHEN WE ARRIVE AS FLOWERS
Diovanna, a dancer realizes her transfemme identity through a choreographic journey of self-discovery, celebration, and the poetic metaphor of a flower coming to bloom.
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FREE NOIR PAPILLON
A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the world in 2020.
PANDROG
Pandrog is about the trappings of gender within the diaspora, the hope of a great escape.
DUE NORTH
A dance film about life, embodiment of the wild.
MAY WE KNOW OUR OWN STRENGTH
May We Know Our Own Strength’ is an abstract and expressionistic narrative document centered around artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s similarly-titled piece exploring collective healing after sexual assault within AAPI communities
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INVENTORY
A living inventory of the body.
IN BEAUTY IT IS UNFINISHED
A voice creates a meditative portrait of two tropical landscapes-separated by 100 miles of ocean-and two men dancing at twilight; the distance of their bodies both measured and infinite.
THE PAST
Two people mourn an unsaid tragedy in this silent play in cinematic narrativity and melodrama, telling an elegiac tale in portraiture.
MAYA AT 24
Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya at 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise - as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward.
AD MELIORA
A filmic collage that combines familiar shapes and textures of the natural world with the artifice of animation, enveloping the viewer in a beautiful melange of sound and color.
BREAST FRIEND
When a girl wakes up from having a breast reduction she receives a letter from her former breast fat tissue.
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Ad meliora, or "towards better things" combines hundreds of separate images that create a deep meditation on being, creativity and nature; a mandala of forms that becomes highly symbolic of life, death, yesterday, now, and the next moment. Flowers, plants and textures were photographed in places such as nature conservatories, cultivated gardens, vacant properties and parking lots. The familiar landscape appears molten, luminous and renewed. Ad meliora is suggestive of adaptation, resilience and transformation.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    No Dialogue
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Katherine Balsley, Irina Escalante-Chernova
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