Women’s History Month Virtual Screening 2023

virtual screening available for free on our website

VIRTUAL SCREENING MARCH 1 – 31, 2023

  • celebrating and featuring the work of Women directors and extraordinary Women performers
  • free to the public
  • available for streaming on this page during the screening period
a woman balances atop a pole with the sun setting over a dense urban area in the background

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 4th annual Women’s History Month Screening, celebrating and featuring the work of Women directors and extraordinary Women performers.

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This project funded in part by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council.
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program of films

This screening runs approximately 57 minutes. The last film includes coarse language and disturbing images. Please contact us with questions.

a woman balances atop a pole with the sun setting over a dense urban area in the background

Dance

2019 / Brazil / 3 min

Produced by Fabi Tombely, Sheurily Costa, Duane Kurten

Dance is a project with the aim of exposing questions and dialogues about the materiality of female bodies. The film talks about the dichotomy of freedom and the imprisonment of human beings. At the same time, “Dance” talks about inhabiting this limited body in the materiality of this existence and living this experience through intersubjective and symbolic exchanges. Dance also proposes to talk about the machismo concepts that point, mainly, to the female body The film was inspired by the story of Rafaela Pontes, a 22-year-old practitioner of the art of pole dance, who, on the paths that cross and intersect the woman’s body, bumps into the walls of prejudice and machismo. Dance is also about looking at bodies. The film speaks not only about Rafa, but about the existence of the female body in Brazil or in our humanity. The choice of narrative told through poetry came from contact with several stories of women in this process of connection and (re)connection with their own existence. From this, a poetic discourse that represents each woman is born. Dance was recorded in the city of Curitiba and Pinhas, Paraná, Brazil, in 2019. It falls under the category of video art, musical film or experimental film.

a woman bends her back over the edge of a small wooden boat, allowing her hands to touch the water beneath the boat

Fresh Oranges into the Ocean

2022 / Italy / 12 min

Concept, Choreography, and Direction by Silvia Giordano
Video Direction by Nuanda Sheridan
Featuring Eduarda Santos, Noemi Calzavara, Reiko Ohta
Cinematography by Sofia Quercetti
Color Grading by Sofia Quercetti
Music by Giorgos Gargalas
Text by Silvia Giordano
Edited by Silvia Giordano, Nuanda Sheridan
Production by La Cap | Creative Re-Hub

While merging and intertwining with nature, three young girls create a metaphorical and visionary narrative of their present condition and their projections towards the future. Through their lightness, disorientation, vitality and strength, they embark on an choreographic journey facing high and low tides, turbulence and contradictions, calm and turmoil. Guided by absurd questions the oranges reflect the path of the protagonists in their delicate passage to adulthood and guide us in a poetic reflection on our lives.

a dancer curved sideways surrounded by a white sheet blown by the wind

Gusts

2022 / United States / 3 min

Directed by Christiana Wheeler, Thomas Wingerd
Featuring Christiana Wheeler

A dance film about the ebb and flow of wind and the movement inspired by it.

a man, on the left, leans forward into the palm of a woman, on the right

And Somewhere In Between

2022 / United Kingdom / 4 min

Directed by Alice Underwood
Choreography by Shaun Dillon and Aimee Dulake
Featuring Dillon Dance

And Somewhere In Between is a duet. A connection. A hello. A goodbye. A relationship. A family. A moment in between many moments. An unknown.

a light skinned woman with dark hair leans back gently, hand to forehead, with a sheer rock cliffside in the background

Scapelands

2021 / United Kingdom / 4 min

Produced and Directed by Katie Beard, Naomi Turner
Choreography by Liv Lockwood

Scapelands explores our primal connections with nature and the effect of urban living on the human mind. Due to the current global pandemic, the psychological impact of our physical environments is being felt more significantly than ever before. Scapelands depicts this feeling of being boxed in and the inherent need to reconnect with something beyond our man-made walls. Scapelands was commissioned by BBC Arts and Arts Council England as part of the New Creatives Scheme.

a face, upside down in the foreground, and a male dancer in black in the background

Sound of Movement

2021 / Germany / 3 min

Produced and Directed by Daniela Meise
Choreography by Minh-Thu Nguyen

Synopsis coming soon.

a woman wearing a loose white shirt extends her arms wide, leaning forward, in a grassy field with overcast skies above

Dance for a Poem (Dança Para um Poema)

2022 / Brazil / 6 min

Directed by Paula Stricker Lima
Produced by Vinicius Matos Gimenez
Featuring Paula Stricker

This work was developed from the research of poems collected in listening points in the city of Londrina, and seeks to trace paths between Dance and Word, linking, in a poetic way, the textual compositions with the movements of a body, present, that dances, creates and feels, giving expression to the voices that are present.

a dancer surrounded by red and brown rock looks and reaches to the side

Gudirr Gudirr

2021 / Australia / 22 min

Directed by Vernon Ah Kee
Produced by Bridget Ikin
Choreography by Marrugeku
Featuring Dalisa Pigram
Photography by Marrugeku

Gudirr Gudirr is a video and sound work, created for three screen projection and as a single screen triptych for cinema and festival screenings, directed by Vernon Ah Kee, developed from the compelling solo dance work created by Marrugeku and performed by Dalisa Pigram. Filmed on location in the Kimberley, this stunning screen work re-imagines the original dance performance. The guwayi bird calls when the tide is turning — to miss the call is to drown. By turns hesitant, restless, resilient and angry, Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from a broken past through a fragile present and towards an uncertain future. Considering the legacy of Australia’s history for Aboriginal people in northwest Australia today Gudirr Gudirr asks: what does it take to decolonise Aboriginal peoples’ minds, to unlock doors and to face cultural change? The installation calls a warning to a community facing massive industrialisation on traditional lands, loss of language and major gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous wellbeing. Drawing on a physicality borne of her Asian–Indigenous identity, Dalisa Pigram builds a dance language to capture this moment in time for her people. Cultural and content warning: Gudirr Gudirr contains truth-telling about the history in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This video contains coarse language, depictions of violence, references to self-harm and youth suicide and is recommended for ages 14+. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised this work contains the images of people who have passed away.