Artist Talk

Fu LE is an award-winning filmmaker and choreographer in the Tetrapode Dance Company in France. After graduating in sculpture at the Art Crafts National School in Paris, he trained in physical theater and contemporary dance in South America and Europe. He recently pursued his research in Taiwan, questioning social issues linked with urbanization. He is now evolving on the edge between dance, sculpture, and video, bringing visual arts to the intimacy of bodily sensations. His cinematographic approach is actually based on long-shot practice, and how to manage the choreography of the camera itself.

Julián Larroza is an Argentinian filmmaker and post-producer. He received a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual postproduction from the National University of Lanús. He is passionate about experimental film, video art, and dance film, with which he has managed to participate in festivals, competitions, and exhibitions on a national and international scale. Some of his works include:

– “Liminal” – Dance Film – 2020 (Winner, Festival Favorite “Opine Dance Film Festival”, Philadelphia, 2021; Official Selection, “Cuerpo Mediado International Dance Film Festival”, Rosario, 2020)

– “Lucarna” – Experimental Film – 2019 (Finalist of the “33rd Premio Georges Méliès Contest”, UNCIPAR, Institut français d’Argentine, 34th MDQ Film Fest, Buenos Aires, 2019)

– “Trascender” – Dance Film – 2017 (Special Mention for Best Editing by Judge Margarita Bali, “5° FAH! (5th Heterogeneous Audiovisual Festival)” UNLa, Buenos Aires, 2017)

Jana G. Younes is a young Lebanese filmmaker who has a keen enthusiasm for movement. She graduated from the St. Joseph University (IESAV) – Beirut after submitting her world-recognized short dance film debut, “Orenda.”

Her infatuation with the duality of cinema and dance started earlier on with her short documentary “Moving philosophy” where she applied Laban Movement Analysis’ theories on the body of the camera, studying the relationship between the two.

Inspired and driven by the early works of moving picture and interpretive dance, she orchestrated another film, “And So Do I,” starring acclaimed choreographer, Jens Bjerregaard, Giulia Barbone, and Shayene Kamel. A film about loss, love, and the inability to forget.

In 2017, she founded alongside Bjerregaard, the Beirut Contemporary Ballet, a collective platform that aims to place Beirut on the international dance map, adaptive to both stage and screen.

The company’s first project “Ghazal,” which Younes directed, Bjerregaard choreographed, and that starred two of the company’s dancers, Rebecca Dahrouj & Wafa Bouti, features a reversed sequence of dance that was created to be flipped.

Jana as a photographer tends to create motion in the stillness of the photograph. Her subjects appear to be moving as if they are going somewhere, appear to be saying something. Her independent project, “dancers revolute,” which she created in response to the garbage crisis in Beirut, caught the public’s attention and the media’s recognition.

Today, her enthusiasm for movement is taking different shapes, using different mediums, and tackling more concrete pathways that explore the mysterious physicality of the mind.

Hai-Wen Hsu was born in Taipei. she graduated from Taiwan National University of Arts in Taipei, with a major in Dance. In 2009 she participated the EX.E.R.CE program at the Centre Choreaphique National de Montpellier, under the direction of French choreographer Mathilde Monnier. In 2017 she joined a 2-year residency at le Fresnoy Studio des Arts Contemporains in France. Now she is preparing her next film work ” La vie nouvelle”.