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Showcasing the multifaceted talents of Pacific Northwest performers, these energizing shorts use dance and music to break down barriers. Tango, hip-hop, contemporary, and Ballroom dancers inspire viewers to rethink gender norms and the role of the body in public space. Featuring the world premiere of FORever FeroshUS, the culmination of Northwest Film Forum’s 2024 ACTION! Narrative Apprenticeship Program! This year’s film pays tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a Black dancer killed in a homophobic hate crime.



Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 21 at 4pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!

Peering through a purple chain-link fence, a voyeuristic camera reveals a dancer at play. Confined by a fence, bordering a picnic table that surrounds a tree encased in concrete crosshatches, the dancer explores how this architecture impacts her movement. Like Robert Irwin's Nine Spaces Nine Trees, the public sculpture where it was filmed, External Links invites meditation on confinement and freedom. How can movement of our own bodies become a link to experiences external to ourself? An other-worldly soundtrack by composer Paul Mathew Moore raises the possibility that these links might be portals to other dimensions.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Language
    nonverbal
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    US
  • Note
    (Juliet McMains, US, 2023, 4 min, nonverbal) US premiere!
  • Director
    Juliet McMains