Kinesthesia is a new moving image at Middlesex University in collaboration with Independent Dance.
We invite audiences to experience film and moving images work from an embodied perspective. Tune into the sensory richness of film and movement on screen beyond its visual impact.
Monday 12 - Friday 16 July 2021: practical research space for filmmakers/artists
Friday 16 - Sunday 18 July 2021: public festival
To find out more about the research space, visit:
https://www.independentdance.co.uk/programmepage/exchanges/research-space/
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About Kinesthesia
At the intersection of dance, somatic practices, experimental film and sensory ethnography, Kinesthesia will bring together artists, scholars, researchers, filmmakers and dancers, inviting submissions of work, from any discipline and format.
Kinesthesia focuses on the body as the agent of seeing rather than as an object of display while challenging the domination of the visual over other senses in our culture. For this purpose, it offers a creative exploration of the relationship between sensory moving bodies, and a screening space or platform - fusing two distinct sites in which the codes and conventions of each medium are inextricably linked.
We invite submissions from artists, filmmakers, researchers and somatic practitioners working with movement and digital/screen media who break away from a conventional understanding of dance and from a visually focused aesthetics of the moving image. Thinking about movement beyond choreography, visual impact and narrative, we wish to consider the whole range of sensory experiences, including visceral, proprioceptive, haptic and kinesthetic awareness, when making and watching a film. Through this approach, we hope to diversify and include a broader notion of movement and sensory experience in filmmaking, screendance and the visual arts.
We specifically invite submissions which address experiences, approaches and histories which are traditionally underrepresented in dance, somatics and moving image; as well as submissions from filmmakers and visual artists that explore the kinesthetic and embodied aspect of filmmaking.
All film, installation, VR or AR work has to be submitted via FilmFreeway.
Alongside film submissions we invite proposals for movement workshops and installations that invite an active way of seeing screenwork. Combining screenings with movement sessions, such as exploring in movement some of the themes of a film or positioning the moving spectators among rather than at a distance from the experience, we encourage different bodily ways of watching films.
Workshop proposals can be submitted by emailing the team at kinesthesiafestival@gmail.com.
This project is part-funded by Mdx Research in Arts and Creative Industries (ACI) and takes place in a context of academic research. We are unfortunately not able to pay fees for work selected for participation in the festival.
Cover image: performance by Dominique Rivoal and Claire Loussouarn
