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Still Life - 'Interitus' / 'Tabeo' / 'Vanitas'

Still Life is a triptych of three films inspired by the stage version. The films are the result of a 12-month COVID-enforced collaboration between Australasian Dance Collective and Kiosk Film.

Based on scheduling restrictions festivals may choose to program individual films.

Duration of each film is 5 minutes with total run time of all three films: 15 minutes.

1. Interitus
2. Tabeo
3. Vanitas
(each is approx 5 min duration)

....or screened together as a suite.

  • Ryan Renshaw
    Director
    Bubblegum, Happy Ending, Sapient, Warped Observance, Yurodivy, Hiphop Puree, We Know Who You Are
  • Sara Taghaode
    Producer
  • Marlo Benjamin
    Key Cast
  • Chase Glegg-Robinson
    Key Cast
  • Lonii Garnons-Williams
    Key Cast
  • Bernhard Knauer
    Key Cast
  • Jack McLarnon
    Key Cast
  • Josephine Weise
    Key Cast
  • Will Hughes
    Music
  • Jack Lister
    Choreographer
  • Jake Koning
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 57 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 5, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    Red
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2024 Dance Camera Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    November 1, 2024
  • 2023 RollOut Dance Film Festival
    Macau
    China
    Jury Prize
  • 2023 NYBA Dance Film Fest
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    Audience Award for Best Film
  • 2023 Los Angeles Dance Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
  • 2023 Exeter Dance Film Festival
    Exeter
    United Kingdom
  • 2023 TANZAHOi International Festival for Dance
    Hamburg
    Germany
  • 2023 PlatArtistic - Primavera de Cinedanza
    Barcelona
    Spain
  • 2022 Screen Dance International
    Detroit
    United States
  • 2022 Dance Camera West
    Los Angeles
    United States
  • 2022 Dance on Screen
    Graz
    Austria
  • 2022 Utah Dance Film Festival
    Salt Lake City
    United States
    Best Lighting Design
  • 2022 Portland Dance Film Festival
    Portland
    United States
  • 2022 Lights Dance Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    Audience Award for Best Film
  • 2022 Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual
    Guadalajara
    Mexico
    Best International Film
  • 2022 Context Film
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • 2022 Danzattack, Internacional de Cinedanza
    Tenerife, Canary Islands
    Spain
  • 2022 Australian Screen Music Awards
    Sydney
    Australia
    Best Music in a Short Film
  • 2022 Dance Camera North
    Minneapolis
    United States
  • 2022 Marquee TV
    International SVOD
  • 2022 Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual
    Guadalajara
    Mexico
  • 2022 Knowbox Dance Film Festival
    Dallas
    United States
  • 2022 Knowbox Dance Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
  • 2022 Kinetoscope 9 International Dance Film Festival
    Montana
    United States
  • 2022 Dancinema
    Washington
    United States
  • 2022 Dancinema
    Vancouver
    Canada
  • 2022 Opine Dance Film Festival
    Philidelphia
    United States
  • 2022 Bodyscope
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • 2022 Dance @ 30 Frames Per Second
    Ohio
    United States
  • 2022 Cinevox Dance Film Festival
    Portland
    United States
  • 2022 Brisbane Festival
    Brisbane
    Australia
  • 2021 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
  • 2021 NoWHere Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    Opening Film
  • 2021 BADC Awards
    Brisbane
    Australia
    November 25, 2021
    Gold Award
  • 2021 Inshadow Festival
    Lisbon
    Portugal
  • 2021 FLOW 2021, Dance on Screen
    Adelaide
    Australia
  • 2021 Inspired Dance Film Festival
    Sydney
    Australia
    October 20, 2021
    Best Australian Dance Film
  • 2021 Bucharest International Screen Dance Festival
    Bucharest
    Romania
  • 2021 Thessaloniki Cinedance International
    Athens
    Greece
  • 2021 Cinedanza
    Modena
    Italy
  • 2021 IMARP - Mostra Internacional de dança - Imagens em Movimento,
    São Paulo
    Brazil
  • 2021 Inspired Dance Film Festival
    Sydney
    Australia
    October 14, 2021
    Best In Show
  • 2021 Frame X Frame Film Festival
    Houston
    United States
Distribution Information
  • Australiasian Dance Collective
Director Biography - Ryan Renshaw

A graduate of the esteemed Institut Villa Pierrefeu Finishing School with a Bachelor of Etiquette (with honours), Ryan Renshaw is film and television director based in the city of Shangri-La.
His career began in the 1990’s where he worked as a director for MTV in Australia, the United States and in Latin America. He has completed more than 80 music videos and worked as creative director for INXS.
Over the past 6 years he has turned his attention to Screendance. His screendance works have been screened at over 150 international film festivals including the prestigious San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Screendance International in Stockholm, and won the Jury Prize at the 2020 LA Dance Film Festival, the Grand Prix Nuria Font, Best International Film at Spain’s 2021 Fiver International Dance Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best Film at 2020 Zinetika Festival in Pamplona, San Sebastian and Bilbao, Best In Show at Inspired Dance Film Festival, Sydney, Best Film at the NoWhere Festival in Seoul and the Audience Prize for Best Film at the 2020 Inshadow Festival, Portugal.

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