5@5: When You Dance You Can Really Love

87 minutes,

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Fri. Oct 6, 5:00PM, Rafael
5AT506R
Wed. Oct 11, 5:00PM, Sequoia
5AT511S

These shorts about passion, both blossoming and breaking, explore the beautiful, complicated choreography of love from many angles. Through the shared wall of adjoining apartments, neighborly irritation turns to auditory attraction in Richard Smith's Mono (UK 10 mins). Discovering an unexpected commonality, two young Chicanas develop a reluctant bond in Risa Machuca and Fanny Veliz's Shortstop (US 17 mins). In Xochitl Dorsey's Orange Blossom (US 7 mins), a determined Mexican girl seeks a job as a flower vendor–but finds much more. From Lev Yilmaz's comics-styled Tales of Mere Existence, I'm Not Going to Think About Her (US 2 mins) mines memories of a lost love. Myra Velasquez explores the complicated realm of history, ethnicity and emotion in The Lovers (US 31 mins), a powerful present-day tale of a relationship between a Japanese man and a Chinese woman that is haunted by the memories of the 1937 Nanking massacre. Cascading sand and sensuality mark Carmen Rozestraten's exquisite Breathe Me (US 9 mins), a hypnotic dance of lovers remembered, while Jason Jakaitis's locally shot Minutiae (US 9 mins) offers intimate narration of the idiosyncracies new lovers discover. — J. Parsont

Shorts in Program

Breathe Me
2006 US 10 Min
Director: Carmen Rozestraten
Print Source: Carmen Rozestraten

I'm Not Going to Think About Her
2006 US 2 Min
Director: Lev Yilmaz
Print Source: Lev Yilmaz

The Lovers
2006 US 30 Min
Director: Myra Sito Velasquez
Print Source: Red Panda Productions

Minutiae
2006 US 9 Min
Director: Jason Jakaitis
Print Source: Jason Jakaitis

Mono
2006 Scotland/UK 10 Min
Director: Richard Smith
Print Source: GMAC

Orange Blossom
(Flor de Naranja)
2005 US 8 Min
Director: Xochitl Dorsey
Print Source: Xochitl Dorsey

Shortstop
2005 US 18 Min
Directors: Risa Machuca, Franny Véliz
Print Source: Criolla Production