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DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Gravity

Paul Shepherd
Peggy Ho
Paul Börchers (aka Yobkiss)
Saturday 1. Apr 2023
20:00 GMT+1
Vitruvian Thing
  • Dance Film
Hong Kong

| Synopsis

It’s been a very long time…

to focus on controlling the uncontrollable and ignoring the extreme exhaustion from daily life, we all lost our minds – at once – together. Sooner or later, the unexpected befalls: me and you, and everyone we know – broken and scattered into pieces. Where are our minds? Fitting into different adult life roles with unavoidable conflicts – absence of minds – do you feel you know yourself? In a sudden global cataclysmic event – me and you and everyone we know are unified in our isolation – we work isolated, we study isolated and we struggle isolated.

Embarking on a self-rediscovery journey…isolated.

Me and you, and everyone we know – masked by insecurities and exaggeration of being alone. Are we ready for this new era of life exploration? We have no choice. Sitting from our corner, isolated – me and you and everyone we know – staring at the old television that is being replaced by new digital technology. Sitting like an old television waiting to be replaced… The rhapsody begins with an infinity mirror – at the corner of daring and bored – the minds within you are daunting. The sound and silence, coming along with fatigue and lunacy represents the dispel of inwardness.

The real is just out of [human] touch. The only truth is our skin – me and you and everyone we know. We are the only real, now, isolated. Our many selves for conversation, for comfort, for introspection. Now our only friend will tell the truth. Now we know.

| Credits

Director / Paul Shepherd
Producer / Zoe Chan
Choreographer / Peggy Ho
Composor / Paul Borchers
Performer / Peggy Ho, Charlene Lwy
Director of Photography / Ray LC, Linda Cheung

Peggy Ho

| Biography

Peggy is a choreographer, dancer and movement artist. Dancing is always the way to find and lose herself all at once in the moment.

| Biography

Peggy is a choreographer, dancer and movement artist. Dancing is always the way to find and lose herself all at once in the moment.

Paul Shepherd

| Biography

This glitch graphics geek has gadgets galore to blast your puny brain beyond the pixel galaxy. Your dreams wish they could be so color-saturated. Hailing from San Francisco, Paul Shepherd now teaches Animation and Media Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Paul Shepherd is an artist and experimental filmmaker with extensive expertise in experimental art installations, film, and old and new animation technologies. His films are often interactive, with magnetic, dreamy, and escapist qualities.

| Biography

This glitch graphics geek has gadgets galore to blast your puny brain beyond the pixel galaxy. Your dreams wish they could be so color-saturated. Hailing from San Francisco, Paul Shepherd now teaches Animation and Media Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Paul Shepherd is an artist and experimental filmmaker with extensive expertise in experimental art installations, film, and old and new animation technologies. His films are often interactive, with magnetic, dreamy, and escapist qualities.

Paul Börchers (aka Yobkiss)

| Website

| Biography

Best described as an emotive journey, YobKiss explores the regions where experimental electronic music, techno, electro, and that hard-to-define Dutch sound; all melt into pure analog synth magic

| Biography

Best described as an emotive journey, YobKiss explores the regions where experimental electronic music, techno, electro, and that hard-to-define Dutch sound; all melt into pure analog synth magic