SSF @ Museum of Boulder: Festival Premiere 2025

TerraMontes is a meditative site-specific screendance which explores an embodied sense of healing with the environment. As with the two previous works from the WECreate Productions’ Terra series, (HinterTerra and UrbáTerra), the dancers and camera explore the poetics of place through improvisation. In a matter of hours, The Lower North Fork Fire blazed through more than four thousand acres of pristine forest. Thousands were displaced, the fire destroyed almost thirty homes and resulted in three fatalities. The fire began on March 26, 2012 when firefighters lost control of a planned burn in Foxton, Colorado. Some of the fire was classified as high intensity, making the recovery of the land a very long process or impossible in some cases.

Two dancers move toward connection while navigating the fundamental disorientation of being human.

A woman explores the far reaches of rural Ireland in an attempt to make peace with the darker aspect of her spirit. Shot on location in County Kerry, Ireland in 2025, Directions to the Other Side of the World is a blessing, in the style of noted Irish poet John O’Donahue, for those of us visited by a depressed and desolate spirit, a sincere wish for friendship with the greyer aspects of self, and the darker times of day and season. Narrated and accompanied by the modern master of the Sean-nós tradition of singing, Iarla ó Lionáird, and scored by contemporary Irish composers Linda Buckley and Hannah Peel, the film attempts to bridge generations of place and ritual into poetic and practical film of belonging and peace.

A meditation in movement on the strained limitations of the California landscape.

A short movement study on sapphic longing and obsession.

Dust is a dance film that explores themes of legacy and mortality in the cycle of intergenerational caregiving. It pays tribute to the compassion, reciprocity, and unconditional love present as we guide one another into and out of this life. It depicts the experience of caring for my father as he died of cancer.

Cut Me Summa Dat Noise celebrates the rhythms of everyday life through the eyes of a neighborhood matriarch who sets the tone for a new day with the beat of her own heart. As the neighborhood comes to life, people of all ages unite in a joyous cacophony of sound that illuminates the connections between them as members of a vibrant and diverse community in rhythm.

Shared Breath is a short film inspired by a dance piece of the same name. Four dancers wear square skirt-like structures attached to their waists, symbolizing the socially defined shape of their personal spaces. The characters whirl tirelessly within the beautiful, but restrictive forms, such as modern-day dervishes, and add dynamic curves and flows to the rigid straight lines. Defying distance and absence of touch, striving for contact, they break free eventually, all within one shared breath. The film is a soul-stirring reminder of our essential need for touch and connection.

In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history. AUDIENCE WARNING: This film references domestic violence and may be unsuitable for some viewers.

In the beginning there was a complete nothing: a nothing in which nothing existed. The smallest particle, a cell, a grain of sand. Merging, crystallizing, forming shapes. When light and dark intermingled, who could fathom the being and becoming? And when only to be seen was a swath of fog swirling, a wide horizon became apparent. A first breath, endlessly recurring, gave its weight to the waves, and against the wind. The continuity of duplication and division, forming life in tenderness and timeless trust.

Inspired by the emotive words of Clarice Lispector’s poem, My Soul Has the Weight of Light, Alma Luz illuminates the immaterial weight of the human condition — the weight of an unspoken word, the fleeting touch of a look and the fragile, ethereal essence of the soul itself.

A dancer moves through an urban space, blending the art of dance with the dynamics of the cityscape and nature. Her movements flow seamlessly with the surroundings, creating a harmonious narrative of freedom, expression, and the connection between humans, the city, and the natural world. Each gesture and step highlights the contrast between reality and imagination. Time constantly chases her, confined within 60 seconds. Every shot offers a moment to reflect on how movement can be interpreted as a metaphor for the rush of life.