Maids

SYNOPSIS

Inspired by Augusto Monterroso’s Maids, this short film combining fiction and screendance presents a maid ballerina embodying the voices of two stock radio drama lovers who plan to murder her with their own hands. On a theatrical setting and in one circular traveling shot, objectivity becomes biased as the body struggles to expose all that is incorporeal, and the question arises as to where the limits between mind and expression are.

FESTIVALS

-32nd Leeds International Film Festival’s Screendance section 2018 / Leeds, England

-41st Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2019 / Clermont-Ferrand, France

 -Cinedans Festival 2019 / Amsterdam, Netherlands

-In/Motion Chicago’s International Dance Film Festival 2019 / Chicago, USA

-Black Warrior International Film Festival (Dance & experimental section) 2019/ Alabama, USA

-Film Festival Oberhausen (Professional Videolibrary Exclusive) 2019 / Oberhausen, Germany

-Short Film Factory (Finalist) 2019 / Bucharest, Rumania

-Heels over Head (Physical Theatre Screenings) 2019 - Chicago, USA

-Kadoma International Film Festival 2019 / Kadoma, Japan

Jomba! 21th South African International Dance Festival 2019 / Durban, South Africa

-FIVER Madrid (Finalist Selection) 2019 / Madrid, Spain

-Thessaloniki Cinedance International 2019 / Thessaloniki, Greece

-Minikino Film Week 2019 / Bali, Indonesia

-Portland Unknown 2019 / Portland, USA

-Up and Coming - Hannover international Film Festival 2019 / Hannover, Germany

-Bestias Danzantes (Best Student Short winner) 2019 / Santiago, Chile

-Dance Camera West. (Semi-Finalist Selection) 2019 / Los Angeles, USA