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surface tension (2024)
A short digital film portrait of dance artist and art model Sawami Fukuoka. Through her voice it meditates on the ways one navigates personal insecurities, while referencing a traditional Japanese folk tale. The film uses layered stylistic perspectives to illuminate the tension between being and being seen.
The work is an Official Selection of the Wallachia International Film Festival in Bucharest Romania.
surface tension was shot in Hieidaira, Japan and North Hamptonshire, UK.
Your marks and surface (2023)
A delicately layered performance by Moss in collaboration with dancer Sawami Fukuoka, composer Stephen Vitiello and painter Angela Dufresne. Premiered February 23-25, 2023 at The Danspace Project, in New York City. The NY Times states, “That softness […] seems to exist in a plane parallel to the sounds and images of entrapment and struggle that pervade the work, just one of many tensions and contradictions that make “Your marks and surface” both unsettling and intensely engaging.” - full review here.
photo credit Ian Douglas
untitled:embrace (2022)
This short, conceptually agile dance film springs from contemporary performance combined with imperial, colonial and capitalist still imagery from 1880-1930, which again is juxtaposed with images of the conquered indigenous peoples of Argentina, Indonesia, various parts of West and South Africa, East and South Asia. The reflective focus and time frame is determined by the historical birth and burgeoning popularity of Tango in the early twentieth century. Positing the music and dance as a haunted experiential return on global colonial investments.
The work is a 2023 Official Selection of the Venice Intercultural Film Festival in Lido di Venezia, Italy; the Darkroom Film Festival in London, UK; the Experimental Film Festival in North Carolina, USA; and the Tokyo International Short Film Festival in Japan.
untitled:embrace was shot entirely on the bucolic grounds of the Dower House Estate, home to Xenia Creative Retreat, July 2022 in Upton Grey, North Hampshire. UK.
demand me for the reckoning (2021)
A digital film work collaboration with Japanese performance artist Sawami Fukuoka completed in fall 2021. The work is dedicated to Loving Day. demand me for the reckoning had its premiere screenings February-March 2022, as an Official Selection for the 9th Annual DESTINY CITY FILM FESTIVAL in Tacoma, WA.
Untitled: perfect human (2020)
A digital film work completed in fall 2020, referencing Jørgen Leth's 1967 film "Perfect Human". The work was live streamed by The Danspace Project incorporating a conversation with the playwright/director Young Jean Lee in December 2020. It also won a 2020 This Week in New York Pandemic Award for BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIGITAL DANCE FILM and is an Official Selection of the 2021 MOVING BODY Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.