Film Programme 1: Opening Night

Thursday 6 November, 7pm
Free entry, pre-booking essential.

Part of Light Moves Festival 2025 Opening Events.

BOLERO.S (LONG VERSION)
2025 | France | 15:58
Director / Choreographer: Mehdi Kerkouche
Composer / Sound: David Gubitsch, Maurice Ravel
Dance / Production Company: Contemporary Hip Hop / EMKA
Ravel’s Bolero, thanks to its universality and contagious energy, transcends generations and cultures. Conceived for dance, it continues to inspire artists. Mehdi Kerkouche brings us his version of BOLERO.S, choreographed in keeping with his inclusive and visual universe, recounting the life of a youth in different scenes in Créteil.

NEW ENGLAND #21
2023 | United Kingdom | 07:34
Director: Marisa Zanotti
Choreographer: Jacob Bray, Marisa Zanotti Composer / Sound: Matthew Whiteside
Dance / Production Company: Daisy Street Films the city persists.

UNTIL…
2023 | Iran | 13:50
Director / Choreographer: Tanin Torabi
A single-take video, captured using only the switch between the front and back cameras of an iPhone by the performers. Filmed during the 2022 ‘Woman Life Freedom’ protests in Tehran, Iran, the video not only presents a highly intricate choreography for the camera, but also encapsulates the essence of unity, resilience, and purposefulness demonstrated by young artists responding creatively and courageously to an actual brutal situation in Iran.

NOTHING EXISTS UNTIL IT MOVES PREMIERE
PREMIERE 2025 | Ireland | 08:59
Director: Hutchinson | Kemp
Choreographer: Sophie Hutchinson
Composer / Sound: Billy Kemp
Nothing Exists Until It Moves uses a computer vision technique called frame differencing to extract and emphasise all movement within a moving image. A body encounters an unseen environment, revealed only through its disturbance. The earth shifts, stones scatter, and bushes tremble toward consciousness, unveiling the subtle violence of existence.

CARMEN
2025 | Spain | 04:37
Director: Andrew Margetson
Choreographer: Carmen Avilés
Composer / Sound: Joselito Acedo, Nemanja Mosurović
A young woman, dressed in a tracksuit, walks through the backstreets of Sevilla into a housing project. This is Carmen Avilés – the young street superstar of flamenco.

INVEIN
2022 | Ireland | 03:25
Director: Steven Hall, Tobi Omoteso
Choreographer: Tobi Omoteso
Composer / Sound: Stephen Hall
This is a physical representation of what it means to choose or decide or to be part of a movement. To only find out that, it’s your own movement that keeps you grounded.

TRY TO KEEP UP PREMIERE
2024 | USA | 08:30
Director / Choreographer: Rosie Trump Composer / Sound: Chance Utter
Materialized through movement and vocalization, Try to Keep Up captures the overwhelming feeling of ‘trying to keep up’ amidst the barrage of cacophonous and chaotic US news cycles and domestic political developments.