Curated by Davide De Lillis
From the 6th of June to the 6th of July 2025
VisualcontainerTV is delighted to present the online streaming of Screendance@VisualcontainerTV. A curatorial project that moves through the vast and ever-evolving landscape of Screendance. A genre that is hybrid by nature and in which differences in approach are numerous.
Program
96 Samoussas – Marion Schrotzemberger
Julie Iarisoa – Tourbillon
Bubblegum – Ryan Renshaw
Call of the Cranes – Vilma Tihilä
Irrational – Nicola Lunardelli
I Dream of Greenwood – Marie Casimir
ERÊKAUÃ – Paulo Accioly
LUCE – Valeria Galluccio
Cronografia di un corpo – Lorenzo Pandolfi
So I Danced Again… – Lottie Kingslake
The Music Box – Alessandro Amaducci
Marion Schrotzenberger – 96 Samoussas, 6′, 2023
At almost 90 years old, Paulette lives in an apartment far from the clouds of her native island. On the phone is her grand daughter, in the kitchen the feast is under preparation and in the cooking fumes her memories are dancing…
Julie Iarisoa – Tourbillon, 7′, 2021
Tourbillon depicts the interdependence between humans and their environment. Inspired by “Valohoba”, a dance performed during the “Sabo” ritual in the Androy region (southern Madagascar) to bring back the rain. ‘Tourbillon’ would like to transpose this ritual into an awareness and a sense of responsibility, realizing that environment is the root of human beings and that we could not exist without water, without trees, without earth…
This work is part of the project Environmental dances by Company ChristophWinkler.
Ryan Renshaw – Bubblegum, 3′, 2019
Bubblegum follows the harrowing journey of Dennis, a struggling junkie with a penchant for self-destruction. After a massive Saturday night bender, he stumbles home, the wreckage of his night etched in his choices of interior design. Bubblegum has been lauded by ChatGPT as “A gripping and unapologetic exploration of the human spirit’s resilience, exposing the fragility of life, public urination, and the enduring quest for a second chance – even in the darkest of times”.
Vilma Tihilä – Call of the Cranes, 4′, 2023
People walking in the forest hear the call of the cranes and gather in a field. Call of the Cranes has been made in collaboration with the elderly people of “Memory Gang” in Alzheimer Association of Kanta-Häme. The starting point of the work was an interest in creating a sequel to the dance film Crane, which the participants saw during Myrskyryhmä’s film moment.
Nicola Lunardelli / Francesca Poglie / Lago Film Fest – Irrational, 4′, 2021
It bursts forth from an upside-down dimension, stirring and unravelling our thoughts, setting human relationships on new, uncharted paths. The irrational belongs to us without ever revealing itself. Elusive—like the images in a mirror. It marks the rhythm of our lives without leaving a trace, like the frantic clatter of a typewriter with no paper, no ink. Without the filter of reason, feet, hands, and arms become entities of their own, interacting in the surreal and overturning the natural order of things.
Marie Casimir / Kollin Willingford – I dream of Greenwood, 7′, 2021
I Dream of Greenwood is inspired by the personal accounts of survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, as told to historian and activist Eddie Faye Gates and featured in her book Riot on Greenwood. The dance moves through the dreamscapes and nightmares of the children who inherited both the rich legacy of a thriving Black community and the trauma of one of the worst single acts of racial violence in documented American history.
We hope to remember and acknowledge the past through their eyes.
Paulo Accioly – ERÊKAUÃ, 1′, 2021
Choreography, dance, video, frames, print, cut, paste, photograph, assemble, soundtrack. That was the process behind this experimental film I made here in Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro. A blend of colours, expressions, and textures from the favela, combined with the instability of Rio — is present at all levels, in all topics and moments.
Valeria Galluccio – LUCE, 7′, 2022
Luce is a mysterious alien creature, with both aquatic and human features. After suddenly falling next to a lake in a forested region in North America, she sets out to document her experience on Earth with a video camera. As an empathetic and tender creature, her awakened senses cause her body to make jerky movements as she explores her surroundings, completely isolated from her own species.
Lorenzo Pandolfi – Cronografia di un corpo, 6′, 2020
Cronografia di un Corpo is a sequence of “impossible dances” designed by digital manipulation of time and body figures. Sounds interact with new figures’ movements, sometimes triggering them and sometimes being triggered by them; at other times, they develop on their own, leading to moments of audiovisual counterpoint.
Lottie Kingslake – So I Danced Again…, 4′, 2017
Notes in an animated sketchbook depict a meandering attempt to investigate the meaning of sounds we hear in the world. But perhaps the only response is to dance.
Alessandro Amaducci – The Music Box, 4′, 2024
A music box dancer, surrounded by animated mannequins, performs her usual choreographic routine, beginning to become uncomfortable with its mechanical repetitiveness. A techno dancer plays with energy and light. They are both alone in their respective dimensions, one linked to the past, the other projected into the future. Artificial Intelligence and a mysterious priestess intervene to create a space where the two characters can meet, to create a hybrid of tradition and technology: a new dancer capable of exploding matter unleashing on a digital dance floor.
Davide De Lillis holds a Master’s Degree in Choreographing Live Art from the University of Lincoln (United Kingdom) and is currently a PhD candidate in the program Cultures, Practices, and Technologies of Cinema, Media, Music, Theatre, and Dance, promoted by Roma Tre University and National Academy of Dance (Italy). He has curated: C.A.L.A. (2016–2018), an international festival of performing arts hosted at the Museum of the City and Territory in Cori; T9 (2021), a screendance and video art project produced by TIR Danza. He is co-founder and co-editor of lucia (2025), the first Italian magazine entirely dedicated to screendance.
Note: Screendance@VisualcontainerTV2025 is part of Davide’s research for the joint PhD program between Roma Tre University and the National Academy of Dance in “Cultures, Practices, and Technologies of Cinema, Media, Music, Theater, and Dance”.