Bobbi Jene

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

A grief-stricken therapist is determined to help a suicidal teen but to help him, she must face her own pain and let go of her guilt. With help from God, a pastor and a dance instructor, the two realize they just might have a second chance.

Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, and meet the original Crip gang members who started the walk. Is it a dance... or a gang ritual? You decide! Features Snoop Dogg, WC, Ice-T, Kurupt, Ras Kass, Malik Yoba, Warren G and Jonathan Davis.

It's hard to define her. And that's precisely the way Lady Gaga wants it. Yes, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta had a plan to remake herself into an outrageous icon. It began with Italian Catholic New York City roots then expanded to glam pop, electronic rock, burlesque and even jazz alongside nonagenarian crooner, Tony Bennett. Piano lessons began at age four and taught Stefani to create music by ear. There were lead roles in high school standard Broadway show productions then open mic nights at downtown clubs and 1 1/2 years of formal training at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. Even a rape at age nineteen slowed but did not stop the mission that would yield over 200 million combined album and song sales. No wonder that Gaga's fans call her "Monster Mother." An outrageous fashion sense has wrought costumes made of plastic bubbles and raw meat. While elaborate videos and spectacular stage sets are the norm,

Brenda Emmanus presents an innovative collection of dramatic short films from emerging artists. Compelling stories of identity and isolation, trauma and power combine with the visceral impact of dance to explore our place in today’s world in a thought-provoking and heartfelt way. Daughters of the Sea; Breadline; The Dupe; Happy Okay Mate; Mad Smooth; Rat King; Reesheh; Spectrum; Testimony; Turbine; Wounds; Beneath the Movement; Divis Tower, Both Sides Now

Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.

Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate collaboration between dancers and musicians, moving seamlessly between Flamenco, Modern, and New Orleans Second Line.

What remains of dance when it is no longer seen? As a performance unfolds out of frame, we are invited to reimagine dance through sound, language and imagination.

Two young people from different social classes put aside their differences and come together to form a dance group and win a championship in China.

Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater teaches a naturist dance workshop.

Alice returns to her estranged aunt's home to collect family photographs after her death. This simple errand unearths a buried family secret, pieced together from fragmented visions and stilted conversations with her mother. Reeling from the discovery, Alice reflects on what we inherit from our families and what we release.

Seven choreographers work tirelessly to both question and embrace their chosen form, producing work that celebrates the strange, startling and poetic beauty of dance and performance. Curated by Gia Kourlas. Narrated by the choreographers.

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party and has a family Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. This breaking point is the film SWALLOWED, where psychological horror meets dance.

A young woman on the run from her past finds solace in the arms of a mysterious dancer.

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

Tom is an 18-year-old deaf boy who lives with his overprotective brother, Eliel. His life changes when he meets the dancer Anthony. As the two grow closer and Tom's feelings for Anthony awaken, a new perspective emerges in his life, leading him to follow the path he always wanted: his own.

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

Urban is a short documentary on the importance of dance in shaping the identity of five young adolescent girls. In the Susp3ctz dance crew, they learn the basics of hip hop, house, krump, in order to learn to freestyle and reveal their own identity.

A sensuous, celebrating smell, touch, color, skin, poetry, painting, sex, and home decorating; to the point of decadence. A man, tired of the debauched and decadent world in which he has lived becomes a recluse, and aims to create his own universe within his home. What starts as a celebration of 'nature', however, becomes a personal disaster as he turns far away from the world.

Rosalyn White is a college sophomore that gave up on her dream of dancing after a horrible car accident killed both her parents and twin brother, leaving her with significant hearing loss. Now after getting a chance to start fresh at the local community college, she runs into Lucas Rowe, an old friend, and current teen idol, guest teaching an acting class. Lucas not only wants to rekindle their friendship but he pushes Rose to dance again using vibrations in the floorboards. Rose has to learn how to start from square one in all the areas that used to come easy like her friendship with Lucas, Dancing, and even her relationship with her older brother Will who has blocked her out since their family's death.