Connecting from the inside out
Video installation, 4-channels
19min14
2024, Montréal, arts interculturel (MAI)
Connecting from the Inside Out explores vulnerability as a space of encounter and resonance. Through a series of sensitive gestures and embodied dialogues, the film questions how care can emerge when personal and shared grief feels impossible to contain. Within an abstract space where voice and somatic movement intertwine, the work invites us to reconsider well-being as both an intimate and collective experience.
Following performers who embody a heightened sensitivity to the body, the film opens a space for release and deep listening, where healing becomes a shared gesture. Between intimacy and solidarity, Connecting from the Inside Out reveals the power of bodily presence as a force of repair.
Credit :
Artistic Director: My-Van Dam
Choreography: My-Van Dam with Miranda Chan, Aurélie Ann Figaro, Jeimy Oviedo and Nicole Jacobs
Performers : Miranda Chan, Aurélie Ann Figaro, Jeimy Oviedo Quesada and Nicole Jacobs
Somatic practice direction: Be heinztman Hope
Genderless costume conception and creation : Rad Hourani
Director of photography: Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Camera and lighting assistant: Sandrine Maltais
Hair and makeup: Estelle Moubarak
Video editing : Mirenda Ouellet
Coloration : Marianne Lévesque
Music composition : Gabrielle HB
Sound Mix : Bruno Bélanger
Coproduction : Montréal, Arts interculturel
Support for Creation: Centre PRIM, MICA Centre and Atelier Clark
Equipement Sponsor: SBL Location
Project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Rad Hourani Foundation (RHF).