virtual screening available for free on our website
Given the times we’re living in, we’re delighted to once again be able to offer online screening options for those who may not want or be able to attend in-person events. These films will become available on this page during the screening window, free of charge for the public around the world, except where noted otherwise (some films are geographically restricted).
As part of our efforts to move toward a more racially just and socially equitable landscape for dance cinema, SSF has celebrated heritage months for the last few years with screenings highlighting artists from communities underrepresented in the field, and from marginalized communities. These screenings have always been free of charge to our local community in Boulder, Colorado, USA, but since the pandemic began, we’ve taken them online to share with the wider dance cinema community. Sans Souci presents our 3rd annual Black History Month Screening, featuring the work of directors and dancers of color, as well as films that examine or celebrate the Black experience.
This project funded in part by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council.
If you’d like to support this screening, you can make a donation here.
program of films
This screening runs approximately 52 minutes. It is intended for viewers age 12 and up; please contact us with questions.
Jontae
2020 / Canada / 8 min
Faced by the global pandemic and reawakening of racism, a performer dedicates a moment for personal catharsis through movement.
Color Theory
2021 / United States / 3 min
A celebration of movement, color and texture, Color Theory blends dance, animation, and visual art to create a joyous burst of energy on the screen.
The Wonder Years
2020 / United States / 9 min
Set in the extraordinary years of the 2020s, The Wonder Years looks both back and forward through the eyes of Eli, the oldest of five children in the Motley family, on the tribulations and joys of growing up in the United States as a twenty something black male. With music by Laurence Hobgood, the low-fi anti-tech home movie style of the work is a nod to classic 80’s sitcoms with an open, unapologetic, and ultimately vulnerable journey filled with all the feels and even some much-needed levity.
Like Water
2020 / United Kingdom / 9 min
Like Water acknowledges the resilience of our ancestors, passed down from generation to generation. A world unkind to our people, yet somehow we survive. A world that that has conditioned us to not see the beauty of our skin, hair, culture and our people. But like water we flow, like water we change shape. We remain resilient.
EntangleMEN: From the Dugout
2021 / United States / 22 min
EntangleMEN: From the Dugout centers on a male duet exploring coexistence through an exhaustive collision course of in-between states. Wheat fields, spillway infrastructures, and baseball dugouts on indigenous territories of Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Nations set the scenes for this viscerally charged work. (This work is also a component of the evening-length live performance project The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.)
