TWITCH is a 5-minute experimental performance video incorporating contemporary dance, contortion and acrobatics.
TWITCH chronicles the life-pulse of a creature in conflict: its stirrings/twitching/convulsions, its agonizing missteps and battle with demons. It’s an ode to overcoming dark energies that lie within, the embodiment of conflicting energy.
CREDITS
Director/producer : Jules de Niverville
Creative producer : Marlene Millar
Performer : Arnaud Caizergues (Acro Arno)
Choreographer : Michael Watts
Cinematography : Jules de Niverville, Michael Wees
Production Designer : Jean-Marc Renaud
Costumes : Flavie Lechat
Make-up / Hair : Eleni Uranis
Editor : Jules de Niverville
Composer : Dino Giancola
Assistant Director : Junna Chif
Assistant Camera : Nikol Mikus
Gaffers : Jonathan Lecot, Ariel Poupart
Grips : Jonathan Lecot, Olivier Racine
Art department technician : Hervé Verhassel
Photography : Toma Iczkovits, Nikol Mikus
Visual research : Delphine Delas
Liquid fx : Michael Watts
SCREENINGS
Screendance - Stockholm, Sweden (+tour) - April 2015
Inside Out - Toronto, Ontario - May 2015
Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Durban, South Africa - June 2015
Montréal Complètement Cirque @ The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montréal, Quebec - July 2015
Fire!! - Barcelona, Spain - July 2015
Asterisco - Buenos Aires, Argentina- July 2015
Leeds Queer Film Festival - Leeds, UK - July 2015
CinemaQ - Denver Co., USA- July 2015
Dance: Made in Canada - Toronto, Ontario - August 2015
Sao Carlos Videodance Festival - Sao Carlos, Brazil - August 2015
aGLIFF - Austin Texas - September 2015
Libercine - Buenos Aires, Argentina- September 2015
Reeling : LGBT International Film Festival, Chicago, Il - September 2015
Movies by Movers – Boone, North Carolina - September 2015
Sunrise Film Festival - North Shore, Nova Scotia - October 2015
Norrkoping Film Festival - Norrkoping, Sweden - October 2015
Aesthetica - York, UK - November 2015
RDV with Madness - Toronto, Ontario - November 2015
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival – Bucharest, Romania – November 2015
InShadow - Lisbon, Portugal - November 2015
Human Rights Film Festival - Paris, France - November 2015
IMAGE+NATION - Montreal, Canada - December 2015
Kortfilmsfestivalen - Boxholm, Sweden - December 2015
ScreenDance Miami - Miami, Florida - January 2016
Screendance - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - February 2015
Journée Cinéma Québécois - Milan, Italy - March 2016
Manchester International Film Festival - Manchester, UK - March 2016
Cinedans - Amsterdam, Netherlands - March 2016
Festival REGARD - Saguenay, Canada - March 2016
Hollyshorts - Los Angeles, California - April 2016
AWARDS:
Audience award for best short : IMAGE+NATION (Montreal)
(photo : Toma Iczkovits)
