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EntangleMEN:
from the dugout

2021

Available for SHOWINGS

SCREENDANCE

For Wilkins, the making of screendances is at once emergent, alive, and continually evolving. It is an organic extension of his art investigations and making that affords him an alternate platform for the creation of intermedia projects – projects resulting from the merging of a wide range of artistic disciplines, including film, video, music, design, and technology.

 

Although film and video has long been a part of his work, the onset of a pandemic reality in spring 2020 ignited a renewed interest in the creation of projects that are meant to be witnessed and experienced as screendances, and projects not necessarily intended to be incorporated into live performance.

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ABOUT

EntangleMEN: from the dugout centers on a male duet exploring coexistence through an exhaustive collision course of in-between states. Wheat fields, spillway infrastructures, and baseball dugouts on indigenous territories of Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Nations set the scenes for this viscerally charged work. (This work is also a component of the evening-length live performance project The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.)

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COLLABORATION TEAM

Film Helanius J. Wilkins in collaboration with Watcheye Studios

Choreography & Performance Helanius J. Wilkins in collaboration with Avery Ryder Turner

Cinematography, Editing, & Original Soundtrack Carlos D. Flores

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FUNDING SUPPORT

Funding for this film was made possible in part through a CHA Small Grant award from CU Boulder. 

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SCREENING SELECTIONS

Tagore International Film Festival

2021, Bolpur, Birbhum, India

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Five Continents International Film Festival

2021, Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui, Venezuela

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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema

2021, Boulder, CO USA

In-person screening details -

https://sanssoucifestival.org/ssf-jacks-solar-garden-2021/

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MIFVIF - Maracaky International Film & Video Festival

2021, Carabobo, Maracay, Venezuela

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OFFICIAL SELECTION - FIVE CONTINENTS INT
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sans Souci Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Maracay Internation

AWARDS

 L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival

Winner - Best Experimental Film

2021, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Tagore International Film Festival

Winner - Outstanding Achievement for Experimental Film,
LGBT Film, Performing Arts Film

2021, Bolpur, Birbhum, India

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - LAge dOr Intern
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