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PHYLUM

A duet between dancer and a textured latex dress unfolds across interior and exterior scenes, tracing a tactile, organic, creaturely transformation where body, material, and environment become porous.

  • Scarlett Perdereau
    Director
  • Tin Vlainic
    Director
  • Scarlett Perdereau
    Producer
  • Scarlett Perdereau
    Key Cast
  • Simon Donger
    Costume Design
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Dance, Art Film, Performance
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 13, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    0 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Scarlett Perdereau, Tin Vlainic

Scarlett Perdereau is a London-based French dance artist. Her work blends somatic research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and embodied storytelling across stage, screen, and immersive environments. With over 20 years’ experience in performance, choreography, and teaching, she creates poetic, sensorial works exploring the body’s relationship to environment, rituals, and materiality.

Tin Vlainic is a filmmaker whose practice bridges fine art, design, education, and moving image. Based in London, he collaborates with performance and film departments across higher education, and works closely with artists and choreographers on experimental screen-based projects. His work spans dance film, portraiture, and short-form cinematic work, with a focus on texture, light, and collaborative process.

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Director Statement

PHYLUM is a short dance film shaped by a latex dress created by scenographer and sustainable design researcher Simon Donger. With its cratered, mineral surface and earthy underside, the dress imposes weight, resistance, and unexpected agency, generating a tactile duet between body and material. The choreography moves between stark blank interior space and natural exterior environments where textures—greenery, bark, stone—invite yielding, pressure, and emergence. Through close attention to surface, gravity, and contact, PHYLUM traces an intimate, creaturely evolution, revealing the dancer negotiating porous boundaries between human, elemental, and environment. The film invites a sensorial, contemplative encounter with transformation, texture, and embodied ecology.