[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs style="horizontal_left"][vc_tab title="Synopsis and Team" tab_id="1440525917-1-10"][vc_column_text]What A Mess By Dawa Lama Frank Sinatra School Of The Arts[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Award" tab_id="1440532917-2-81"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="12203" qode_css_animation="element_from_fade"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Capturing Motion NYC 2014 Capturing Motion NYC Winning Film Learn More About Capturing Motion NYC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tab][/vc_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs style="horizontal_left"][vc_tab title="Synopsis" tab_id="1440525917-1-10"][vc_column_text]Centered on process and discussion, this year’s Work-In-Progress screening will feature The Other Side of Stillness by Alexx Shilling | alexx makes dances, the selected film from Dance Films Association’s Production Grant application pool. Moderated by Yara Travieso, an award-winning multimedia director,...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs style="horizontal_left"][vc_tab title="Synopsis" tab_id="1440525917-1-10"][vc_column_text]United Skates follows an underground subculture growing inside our country’s last standing roller rinks while shining a fresh light on the recurring patterns of racial struggle in the US today. Through the eyes of an unassuming leader, Reggie and his family fight...

Part dance film, part documentary, Black Stains is a poignant and sobering meditation on what it means to be a black man in today’s society. Moving with uncompromising physicality, an all male ensemble destabilizes conventional assumptions of masculinity and racial stereotypes as they navigate through...

the birch grove is a narrative dance film about the reunion of two estranged brothers. As the story unfolds we witness the connection they both have to love and death and how they are transformed at this juncture in their lives. The film is inspired...

Adowa is a documentary film about oral literature in dance and preserving the culture of the Ashanti people of Ghana . A young artist of Ashanti heritage travels to Ghana to capture the beauty of traditional funeral dance called Adowa of the Ashanti people. The...

Margaret Dale is born in Newcastle on Tyne in 1922 and begins dancing at age three. Her fascination as a child is primarily with her dancing classes rather than school, and she dances in and out of the tables at the Newcastle assembly hall...

A short film featuring Mohiniyattam dancer Vijyalakshmi and actor Michael Irby. Featuring opera singer Peabody Southwell and Flamenco singer Jesus Montoya. Cinematograpy Joost Van Starrenburg. Original music composed by Yuval Ron. Shot on location at and made possible by the generous support of the Metabolic Studio and...

SajakThor engages with a violent political landscape that has remained challenging in Cambodia ever since the country’s last election, depicting the Apsara dancer as peacemaker....

It's not just pointe and shoot. Portraiture shows what it takes to get good, unique head shots....

kym and laurel is a super 8mm film exploring personal narratives through body language. Featuring Laurel Atwell and Kym Chambers. Silent....

A Queer Venezuelan journeys through Williamsburg, Brooklyn experimenting with the body in this improvisation shot and edited in 24 hours....

niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience through live performance....

24 dancers embody the birth of neurons, activating the brain/body. Created in consultation with leading neuroscientists....

Narrated by Sylvia Plath's recitation of "The Applicant," a dehumanized woman uses movement to stand strong against the lacking pursuit of her suitor....

Akasha is the Sanskrit word for “aether," said to embody the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. This film uses the expressive movements of aerial and dance to explore one woman’s connection to the elements around her....

In the midst of an urgent and alienating reform are New York City’s renowned subway car performers....

The film is an adaptation of a trio for three women to the music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin. It is a reflection on the relationship between time and a person’s identity. The three dancers represent the past, present and...

Nearly a decade after hanging their shoes, aspiring ballerinas return to the dance studio, where they participate in brutal, rigorous training—against the odds—to reclaim their missed dream of becoming professional dancers....

A film based on the lifelong experience of two women from birth to death....

An experimental dance film by Bertil Nilsson featuring dancer Michael-John Harper Music: “A Shadowy Figure Emerges” by Purse Candy"...

Company director, choreographer and dancer Daniel Gwirtzman collaborated with filmmaker Rafael Silva de Carvalho on this brief film, shot in a craggy clearing in Misericórdia, Bahia, a small town on the island of Itaparica. Daniel says, “Its landscape recalled the moon with its cratered surface.""...

A carful of young people arrive at an empty house, catching the attention of a woman - or is she a memory? – in the attic. As they try on old clothes and new identities, she guides them, unseen, toward greater intimacy and delight....