COLLECTION
On Tour
The films in this collection were pieced together with cultural storytelling in mind. A curatorial experience of dance films and talent from around the globe, the selection pays close attention to our regional neighbors and beyond, and their continuously growing body of work from both established and emerging filmmakers. Ranging from documentaries to experimental films, the selection features both award-winning and up-and-coming titles rooted in the avant-garde.
Lei Yuan Bin
Singapore • Macao
Three dancers reenact the iconic photographs of Ren Hang.
2018
Wim Vandekeybus
Belgium
Ultima Vez dancers interact with different media to create the central theme of the film — diving in and out of the screen only to reappear seconds later. Based on the popular stage performance.
2005
Justyne Li
Hong Kong
2019
In a society of extreme distortion, people unknowingly live like ants. Sunlight may not be inevitable, while the rain may bring more clarity to the mind and body.
Daria Lippi
France
An old factory, a dark forest, and a run-and-chase between a horse and a dancer.
2018
Veronika Vaculíková
Czech Republic
2017
A dance interpretation of the life cycles of insects. An infinite process of a creature’s birth in silent timelessness. An organism in a vibrating microcosm, transforming on the background of inorganic matter. Camera, focused on an eternal action which can be barely perceived.
Chen Jiexiao
Singapore
2017
A lone dancer vents his frustration with his lot whenever it rains heavily.
Chan Sze-Wei
Singapore
2015
Five dancers in weightless collapse on a series of endless stairways, where the performing body meets the architecture of culture.
Itai Zwecker
USA
2020
The film Mujer Vacío takes the viewer on a journey to experience a woman’s pilgrimage, where she relinquishes all of the burden of her image to finally get to deeply meet her inner self. It is there where she finds the union with all women.
Berta Blanca T. Ivanow • Max Larruy
Spain
2018
A journey to experience a woman’s pilgrimage, where she relinquishes all of the burden of her image to finally meet her inner self on a deeper level.
Chantal Akerman
France
Chantal Akerman is offered a journey into the world of Pina Bausch.
2018
Ivan Cash • Dan Addelson
USA
2020
Parked documents a one-night, drive-in dance performance in Los Angeles at the height of COVID-19.
Elysa Wendi • Azhar Syukor
Hong Kong
2017
Passaged Way is a collection of movements that have abstracted through a diagonal axis of Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Joowon Song
South Korea
2017
A song of gestures from an alley that disappears due to urban regeneration.
Abe Abraham
USA
2008
Beneath an abstract sculptural mass of more than twenty dancers interlocked with bare curved backs that sway, rise, and fall in wave-like motions — intimate and fleeting human connections reside.
Deny Ardianto
Germany
2008
My memory brings me back in time: to when my parents taught me about my existence, my religion, and my culture.
Ma YueRu
Singapore
2020
What are the things that you start to see and listen to? What are the things that are present and absent?
Bruce Wong
Hong Kong
2010
Led by Bach’s rhythmic Prelude in D Minor, the dancer plays with the single and multiple images of a hand and a leg’s dance movement.
Kati Kallio
Finland • Russia
Three dancers move from one space to another in an old Russian factory, affirming a moment of stagnation in the endless time.
2010
Germany • Finland • Netherlands
2019
Jukka Rajala-Granstubb • Marc Wagenbach
The late Pina Bausch is an icon of German dance theatre. This film is one view of her legacy. A film about how vulnerable it is to be human.
Lut Vandekeybus
Belgium
A personal portrait of performer, choreographer and director Wim Vandekeybus, directed by his sister Lut.
2016
