counter//balance
Documentary | TRT 7 min Color HD | USA 2019
A foot balances precariously on a slick floor. A wheel turns and poses on pointe. They meet and overlap in our vision, moving away simultaneously as if never there. Innumerable, yet slight iterations edge them towards gritty and resolute perfection. Some moments are easy to grasp, embrace, and memorialize. Others shiver, shift, and elude form. A percussive sole, a guitar chord, a wheel skidding across an unforgiving floor. A pattern evolves as it is reshaped, movements repeated, recreated, revealed. Ephemeral shots construct the whole from fragments, eluding to how memories bring back to us what we lose to time or mortality.
This short experimental film weaves together footage filmed over the course of a year as choreographer and dancer, Anita Fillmore Kenny, works with dancer Kris Lenzo and musician Jamie Fillmore to craft a short piece that examines numerous themes - absence and presence, love and loss, equilibrium and instability - as they meditate on the loss of loved ones and the process by which we come to terms with, and celebrate, an unyielding emotion.
SCREENINGS (Contd.)
Melbourne Indie Film Festival, Australia
Melkbos Short Film Festival, SOUTH AFRICA
MicroActs Artist Film Screening, UK
New Delhi Film Festival
New Jersey Indian & International FF
Newport Beach Film Festival, USA
Oregon Documentary Film Festival, USA
OZ Indie Film Festival, AUSTRALIA
Polish International Film Festival, POLAND
Port Townsend Film Festival, USA
Pune Short Film Festival, INDIA
Real Film Festival, AUSTRALIA
ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York
Rethink Dance Film Festival, USA
Richmond Dance Festival, USA
Roma Cinema DOC, ROME
Short Film Block Party, USA
Spello International Short FF, ITALY
The Borehamwood International Film Festival, UK
Twister Alley Film Festival (OK, USA)
Unrestricted View Film Festival, UK
Utah Dance Film Festival, USA
ViDEOSKiN, CANADA
Windy City International Film Festival, USA
Woods Hole Film Festival, USA
World of Film International Festival, Glasgow
Screenings and Film Festivals
SCREENINGS
40 North Dance Film Festival, USA
Apex Short Film & Music Video Festival, USA
Awareness Film Festival, USA
Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival, USA
Big Muddy Film Festival, USA
Bridges International Film Festival, GREECE
Canada Independent Film Festival
Changing Face International Film Festival, AUSTRALIA
Chautaqua International Film Festival, New York, USA
Chicago Feminist Film Festival, USA
Chicago Onscreen Festival, USA
Cineframe International Short Film Festival of INDIA
Contact Dance International Film Festival, CANADA
Courage Film Festival, GERMANY
Culture & Diversity Film Festival
Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival, INDIA
Dunedin International Film Festival, USA
EnCore: Dance on Film 2019, USA
Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), ARGENTINA
Ethnografilm, FRANCE
Festival de CineArte en la Frontera, MEXICO
Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA, BRAZIL
Film-Art-Dance on Screen, USA
Fisheye Film Festival, UK
Georgia Documentary Film Festival, USA
Goa Short Film Festival, INDIA
Guiar – Screendance International Festival, BRAZIL
In/Motion Chicago International Dance Film Festival, USA
International Short Film Festival Kalmthout, BELGIUM
Karnavati International Film Festival, INDIA
Kinodrome: International Motion Picture and Screenplay Festival, USA
Lady Filmmakers Festival, USA
Lake View International Film Festival, INDIA
Las Cruces International Film Festival, USA
Le Festival International Du Film Sur Le Handicap, FRANCE
Life Screenings Film Festival, USA
Lisbon Film Rendezvous, PORTUGAL
London Experimental, UK
Luleå Film Festival, Sweden
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Chicago Feminist Film Festival, USA [AUDIENCE AWARD BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY]
In/Motion Chicago International Dance Film Festival, USA [AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DOC]
Twister Alley Film Festival, USA [AWARD: BEST DIRECTOR, DOCUMENTARY]
New Delhi Film Festival, [TOP 5 SHORT DOCS]
OZ Indie Film Festival, AUSTRALIA [BEST SHORT DOC]
Oregon Documentary Film Festival, USA [NOMINATED – BEST DOCUMENTARY]
Georgia Documentary Film Festival, USA [NOMINATED – BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: B. Rich]
ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York, [Semi-Finalist]
Short Film Block Party, USA, [Semi-Finalist]
Featuring
Kris Lenzo
Anita Fillmore-Kenney
Jamie Fillmore
Special Thanks to
Momenta Dance Company
TEAM
Producer & Director: Anuradha Rana
Producer: B. Rich
Cinematographer: B. Rich
Additional Camera: Anuradha Rana
Location Sound: Scott Kaiser, Anuradha Rana
Original Music: Jamie Fillmore
Editor: Kathleen Mullins
Titles & Graphics: Gordon Glenn
Color Grading: Laurie Little
