Exploring new definitions of experimental film, writing, and dance during 10 days of screenings and other performances from September 20 to September 29, 2019, Counterpath is excited to present year 3 of The Unseen Festival, invoking notions of the resistant, the excluded, and the unacknowledged.
Work in the Unseen Festival represents outputs from a range of international artists. See the full list here.
Curators include: Jacob Barreras (film), Amir George (film), Tameca Coleman (writing), Keith Haynes (dance), Vivian Kim (dance), and Rick Manyan (dance).
Tickets are $10 for each evening, with full access passes for the festival just $70.
*All filmmakers, dancers, movement artists, writers, readers, singers who are presenting work in the festival will receive a +2 pass for the festival as well as an honorarium of 50% of the door split between artists the night their work is presented.
Friday, Sept. 20
Opening Night!7:30–10pmReading: André HoilleteDance: Keith Haynes and Vivian KimFilm:Winners Bitch – Sam Gurry – USA – 2018 – 7 minA Fixed Answer – Britany Gunderson – USA – 2019 – 3 minA Collection of Animated Gifs – Wendy Cong Zhao – USA – 2018 – 1 minCococo – Julian Gallese – Costa Rica – 2017 – 7 minMasquerade – Emma Rautala – Finland – 2019 – 6 minGraffiti – Rick Niebe – 2018 – 1 minGlimmers – Brandon Wilson – USA – 2018 – 6 minBleeding and Burning – Guillaume Marin – Canada – 2017 – 3 minBird – Wu-Ching Chang – Taiwan – 2019 – 5 minNuit – Alexander Bayer and Grzegorz Kielawski – Austria – 2018 – 7 minA Tune of None at Noon – Carlos Adriano – Brazil – 2019 – 10 minThe Stream VIII – Hiroya Sakurai – Japan – 2018 – 7 minWe Were Hardly More Than Children – Cecelia Condit – 2018 – 9 minGirls Grow Up Drawing Horses – Joanie Wind – USA – 2018 – 7 min
Saturday, Sept. 21
Reality Shift7:30–10pmReading: Crisosto ApacheDance: Attiyya FortuneFilm:The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs – Ross Meckfessel – USA – 2018 – 11 min – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!Ghost Shelter (Six Sites) – Brit Bunkley – New Zealand – 2017 – 6 minDust – Murat Sayginer – Turkey – 2019 – 2 minCentral Square – Daniel Rowe – USA – 2019 – 3 minLiquid Traits of an Image Apparatus – Vera Sebert – Austria – 2019 – 6 minRed-Evoked Agitations – Agustin Telo – Argentina – 2019 – 4 minAriadne’s Thread – Marta Di Francesco – USA – 2018 – 6 minMesophase – Espen Tversland – Norway – 2018 – 5 min_ImEdge – Huang Xiaowen – Taiwan – 2019 – 5 minSymphonic Textures – Oliver Poppert – Australia – 2019 – 3 minThe Left Hand of Darkness – Sara Bonaventura – Italy – 2019 – 5 minRitual for Biological Media – Debora & Jason Bernagozzi – USA – 2019 – 20 min – LIVE EXPANDED CINEMA – FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!
Sunday, Sept. 22
Moonless Night: Dedicated to Phil Solomon7:30–10pmReading: Isaac LinderDance: The Cindy Brandle Dance Company, Meg MadorinFilm:Lining – Britany Gunderson – USA – 2019 – 2 minSir Bailey – Matt Ripplinger – Canada – 2018 – 8 minForeclosed Home Movie – Lisa Danker – USA – 2019 – 8 minLa Vida de un Soldado – Adriana López Garibay – México – 2019 – 5 min1.987 / The Imaginary Line – Jairo Cadena-Enríquez – Ecuador – 2019 – 22 minSandoval’s Bullet – Jean-Jacques Martinod – Ecuador – 2019 – 17 minHidden Memories – Anna Beata Baranska – Poland – 2019 – 3 minThere Lived the Colliers – Nelson Macdonald – Canada – 2017 – 7 minColaptes Aurates – Laurids Andersen Sonne – USA – 2018 – 5 min – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!Die Nacht – Wenhua Shi – China/USA – 2019 – 3 minBrian Wilson Ektachrome Diaries – Brian Wilson – USA – 2020 – 15 min
Monday, Sept. 23
Slipping Away7:30–10pmReading: Ajha FoxDance: Kate SpeerFilm:Slip Away – Mikey Peterson – USA – 2014 – 3 minThe Stream IX – Hiroya Sakurai – Japan – 2019 – 6 minGaia Mama – Laura Bouza – USA – 2019 – 19 minAbiding – Ugo Petronin – Netherlands – 2019 – 5 minCactus Raptus – Maxime Hot – France – 2018 – 5 minDriving Dinosaurs – Emma Piper-Burket – USA – 2019 – 5 minCirculacíon en la Corteza – Francisco Álvarez Ríos – Ecuador – 2019 – 6 minThe Hearing of the Eye – Alessia Cecchet – Italy – 2017 – 6 minWhen it is Still – Anna Kipervaser – USA – 2018 – 10 minGathering Moss – Erin Espelie – USA – 2018 – 5 min – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!Meridian – Calum Walter – USA/Italy – 2019 – 15 min – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Cosmic Noise7:30–10pmReading: Ian DDance: Nu World Contemporary Dance, Kelly Ann WalshFilm:Go Move Be – Esther Polak & Ivar Van Bekkum – Netherlands – 2018 – 10 minSenses of Time – Wenhua Shi – USA/China – 2018 – 5 minMayan Time – Alberto Jose Doctorovich – Mexico – 2019 – 7 minANDROKTONES – Emine Yildrim – Turkey – 2018 – 10 minLuminous Variations in the City Skies – Giuseppe Spina – Italy – 2019 – 5 minA Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel – Ryan Betschart & Rachel Nakawatase – USA – 2019 – 7 minA SLOWER SPEED OF LIGHT – Stuart Pound – UK – 2019 – 6 minBlack Hole – Tyler Bohm – USA – 2018 – 5 minIIOII – Rakel Jonsdottir – Iceland – 2016 – 9 minEsmark – Husby-klit Bk. – Robert Seidel – Germany – 2017 – 5 minSet Theory I-IV – Simon Payne – UK – 2018 – 19 min
Wednesday, Sept. 25
Self-Immolate7:30–10pmReading: ellie swenssonDance: Laura Malpass, rick h m, Keith HaynesFilm:Monsters Walking – Diego Porral – Spain – 2018 – 1 minExile – Murat Sayginer – Turkey – 2019 – 3 minCrash Test – Estelle Vétois – France – 2018 – 2 minMerry Go Round – Ihor Podolchak – Ukraine – 2017 – 5 minParrall | Axe – Maxime Hot – France – 2018 – 7 minNever Never Land – Michael Fleming – Netherlands – 2018 – 9 min32-Rbit – Victor Orozco Ramirez – Germany/Mexico – 2018 – 9 minThe Last Day of the Luna Moth – Guillaume Vallée – Canada – 2019 – 5 minStrange Animal – Arthur B. Senra – Brazil – 5 minTemple of Truth – Giuseppe Boccassini – USA – 2018 – 15 minUntitled, Fourth Movement – Ricardo Perea & Julio Lamaña – Colombia – 2018 – 24 min
Thursday, Sept. 26
The Divine Way7:30–10pmReading: Franklin CruzDance: Allison Blakeney, Julie RothschildFilm:Double Negative – Themba Twala & Nicola Pilkington – South Africa – 2018 – 8 minThe Open Window – Lynne Siefert – USA – 2017 – 7 minThe Little Tools – Emmanuel Piton – France – 2018 – 11 minPlaza Rakyat – Ong Sau Kai – Malaysia – 2018 – 3 minDystopian Patterns – Isabelle Nouzha – Belgium/Lebanon – 2019 – 7 minPivot – Maki Satake – Japan – 2017 – 6 minTaking-Away – Eginhartz Kanter – Austria/Japan – 2018 – 7 minBeing and Becoming – Maite Abella – Netherlands – 2019 – 9 minInitiation – Iwona Pasinska – Poland – 2017 – 18 minThe Divine Way – Ilaria Di Carlo – Germany – 2018 – 15 min
Friday, Sept. 27
Whispering into the Void7:30–10pmReading: AkusuoDance: Hattie Houser, Lisa EngelkinFilm: Curated by Amir George and John FitzgeraldMan of the People 17 min, 2019Impepho, 4 min, 2019Passages of Excess (Spirit That Resides) 15 min, 2019Water and Power, 5 min, 2019
Saturday, Sept. 28
The Background World7:30–10pmReading: Jeffrey ErlacherDance: Rachel Halmrast, Kelley Ann WalshFilm:Bird Milk – Chris Strickler – Canada – 2018 – 5 minAdentro de la Tierra – Katalin Egely – Argentina/Hungary – 2018 – 4 minCow Palace – Julian Gallese – Costa Rica – 2018 – 3 minTemplate Message – Marin Martinie – France – 2018 – 11 minULTRA – Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand – Canada – 2017 – 2 minIn the Sky – Marián Vredík & Jana Hirnerová – Slovakia/Slovenia – 2018 – 2 minLost Child Reel – Evan Morgan – USA – 2019 – 9 minOpium – Ashok Meena – India – 2019 – 5 minNutrition Fugue – Péter Lichter – Hungary – 2018 – 4 minMirror Effect – Oliver Smith – USA – 2018 – 3 minAn Autonomous Agents Choreo – Toni Mitjanit – Spain – 2016 – 7 minSonant – Timothy David Orme – USA – 2019 – 3 minKALOPSIA – M. Kardinal – Germany/Ukraine – 2018 – 5 minCcconvolve – Scott Fitzpatrick – Canada – 2017 – 8 minThe Background World – Mélissa Faivre – France – 2018 – 8 minPattern Cognition – Thorsten Fleisch – Germany – 2019 – 7 min
Sunday, Sept. 29
Closing Night! The Abyss and the Afterlife7:30–10pmReading: Emma Arlington M.Dance: Michele Bernier / Alberta ShulmanFilm:Oneiric Premonition #1 – Emily Van Loan – USA – 2019 – 15 min – LIVE EXPANDED CINEMA – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!The Note – Siavash Eydani – Iran – 2018 – 4 minAscensor – Adrian Garcia Gomez – USA – 2019 – 8 minThe Cliff of the Blind – Blas Payri – France/Spain – 2017 – 5 minVideOvide Hermaphrodite – Samuel Bester – France – 2019 – 10 minHuman Geography – Anna Estelles – Spain/Indonesia- 2019 – 3 minBetween Medusa and the Abyss – Felicity Palma – USA/Italy – 2019 – 12 minLa Soga del Muerto – Dakota Nanton – USA/Bolivia – 2019 – 32 min – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!