ACTIVE PROJECTS:
SCREENDANCE
AVAILABLE FOR SHOWINGS
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 – one of his more notable screendance projects being 2008’s Caution, a project made in collaboration with Susannah Newman – 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.
DIRT (2020)
ABOUT
Through the fusion of text, movement, layered visuals, and sound, this work presents a meditative exploration of identity and Blackness in a heightened time of unrest and uprisings fueled by issues of police brutality and systemic racism in America.
COLLABORATION TEAM
Concept, Direction, Text, & Performance Helanius J. Wilkins
Video Design, Direction, & Editing Roma Flowers
Original Sound Composition, Arrangement, & Performance Andy Hasenpflug
FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE
August 12, 2020 CU Denver’s Newman Center’s Midweek Boost, Local Spotlight
SCREENING SELECTIONS
International Art Film Festival (IAFFest)
2020, London, UK
kNOwBOX dance Film Festival
2020, Seoul, South Korea Premier
2020, Dallas, TX USA Premier
2021, Oaxaca, Mexico
ScreenDance Miami Festival produced by Miami Light Project!
2021, Miami, FL USA
The 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival
2021, Norway
Alabama Screendance Festival
2021, Birmingham, AL USA
GRRL HAUS CINEMA - Gimme 5 Series
2021, Cambridge, MA USA
Maryland Youth Ballet - Black History Month Virtual Performance Series
2021, Silver Spring, MD USA
Photometria In Motion
2021, Ioannina, Greece
New York World Film Festival
2021, New York, New York USA
Braga International Video Dance Festival
2021, Braga, Portugal
AWARDS
Alternative Film Festival Fall 2020
Short Category - Best North American Experimental
2020, Toronto, Canada
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