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.
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 5th annual Women’s History Month Screening, celebrating and featuring the work of Women directors and extraordinary Women performers.
program of films
This screening runs approximately 62 minutes.
Blind Dreamers [•32°N 145°W•]
2022 / France / 6 min
A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveal a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry. We discover a couple looking like René Magritte’s lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag. In research of sensitivity, this video fable questions our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it. We are this living being caught in a trap: how could we forget about it?
(UN)Seen
2022 / India / 7 min
Tethered between her own worlds of captivity and escapism, Maya finds herself. Our relationship with time will remain an unsolved mystery. Some days it is moving too fast, on some other days too slow but on most days it is passing by like clockwork. And TIME is the most manipulative when spent alone. This film reflects my journey with mental health. We are perpetually told to seek the light at the end of the tunnel, but nobody seems to know how. Is there even a light at the end? (UN)seen is a dance-film by Anjana Ghonasgi, developed and executed at AuroApaar’s Manifest dance film incubator 2022.
The Swan, My Mother and I
2022 / Brazil / 15 min
hybrid/performance documentation
This documentary blends the past of a dancer born and raised in the countryside of São Paulo-Brazil, and her present updated in the duets danced with her daughter, who is a dancer as well. The film transits between bucolic images of ruined landscapes and the stage, bringing a letter that is a familiar legacy, with instructions to dance the Russian choreography “The Dying Swan.”
Absent Presence
2023 / Italy / 1 min
microshort
To perceive, from the Greek “touch at a distance.” Absent Presence is the surreal journey of a disconnected body in an attempt to find itself in the spaces of an empty house. A game of perceptions, between the ambiguity of reflections and distorted shadows, which leads the viewers to wonder about the relativity of what they are watching: “What is real to us? What can I move and what moves me?”
Handstitched
2022 / United States / 10 min
Five people venture to a secret meadow tucked behind snow capped mountains to participate in a ritual of their own making. Together, they delight in dream logic and ceremonial uncanny through their mischievous traditions.
Two Hands
2023 / United States / 2 min
microshort
Two hands lead the movement and poetry of a solo dancer contemplating life and loss.
iuSui
2022 / Luxembourg / 9 min
first-time filmmaker
iuSui is an ode to the visceral power of beauty, nature, freedom, and the vulnerability of the human psyche. You will be taken on an aesthetic and kinaesthetic voyage to what might be a very tangible place on earth or the most hidden site within the mind. From dark underwater depths to soaring above the clouds of Sweden, our female protagonist explores what it means to be human. Learn more.
Yn Y Golau (In Visible Light)
2023 / United Kingdom / 12 min
Yn Y Golau (In Visible Light) is an experimental vertical dance film, following two dancers on a journey through natural light phenomena.