Join Miami Light Project for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2025! This is an evening out of doors with short and feature length film premieres.
Program Order:
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise (2024, 6 min, Florida Premiere, New York)
Cara Hagan
Cut Me Summa Dat Noise is a film that 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.
Everything You Have Is Yours (2024, 90 mins, Florida Premiere, New York)
Hadar Ahuvia, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Brighid Greene
NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930’s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism.
>>> Total length: 96 min
Join Miami Light Project for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2025! This evening out of doors featuring short film selections.
Program Order:
Beach Birds: A New Arrangement (2023, 21 min, Florida Premiere)
Merce Cunningham, staged by Patricia Lent and Rashaun Mitchell
A performance of one of Merce Cunningham’s iconic choreographic works filmed by Alex Munro. Originally created in 1991 for an indoor stage setting, this new adaptation of Beach Birds, commissioned and produced by Beach Sessions, was performed by 11 dancers last summer on the shoreline at Rockaway Beach, New York.
La Timidite des Cimes (2023, 19 min, US Premiere)
Loup-William Théberge
The Crown Shyness is a dance short film about a man’s introspective gaze at his artistic identity.
Mataperra (2023, 21 min, US Premiere)
Yelda del Carmen, Rachel Trudeau
Yelda embarks on a quest that drives her to achieve much more than her climbing dreams. She aspires to make a mark in history by becoming the first Cuban to conquer three legendary ascents.
Me and My Mother the Lumberjack (2024, 23 min, Florida Premiere)
Jenny Larsson and Charlotte Berglin
This documentary film explores the life and relationship between Britt-Marie and her daughter Jenny. The film highlights their unique lifestyles and differences while examining themes of femininity and independence. Despite their different lives, they share a deep connection to the forest, a place that offers both recreation and physical labor.
>>> Total length: 63 min