2024. 12 minutes. Digital. 16:9. English. Canada
Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Centre (NY, USA) – Official Selection 2024
Thessaloniki Cinedance International (Greece) – Official Selection 2024
Wilddogs International Screendance Festival (AB, Canada) – Official Selection 2024
Oslo Short Film Festival (Norway) 2024 – Official Selection 2024 & Best Short Film Nominee
Moving Matter is the culmination of a material-led process with artists from dance, costume design and film that began with a study of old kitchen flooring about to be discarded. This flax-based material enters our orbit in the 1950s, where a measured homelife and prescribed domesticity offered a reassuring antidote to bomb scares, political turmoil, and paranormativity. Stability topples as the flooring becomes entangled in the lives of those who don the material as garments and shelters. This film was made through Moving Matter, a long-term research-creation project that offers a methodology for rethinking the dynamism between raw materials, garments, and the body. Moving Matter steers the locus of choreography and wearable design away from human hierarchy to instead support truer collaboration amongst all moving materials, both human and non-human, in this case… linoleum.
Created by Rob Kitsos, Meagan Woods, & Beau Han Bridge
Cinematography, Editing, & Sound Design by Beau Han Bridge
Choreography by Rob Kitsos & Dancers
Garment & Wearable Designs by Meagan Woods
Projections & Production Design by Alexandra Caprara
Dancing by Anna Wang Albini, Sydney Bluck, & Olivia Johnson
Special Appearances by Erika Latta, Max Tyler-Hite, Michael Meneer, Desiree James, Brett Palaschiuk, Alexandra Caprara, & Rob Kitsos.
Music by Westport Sunrise Sessions
Produced under the generous support of SFU School for the Contemporary Arts & Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant.
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