Official Selection — EIVV 2025
Abstract Video Art
- Nothing Blooms — Mourad Hamla (Algeria, 2024, 2:43) — Honorable Mention
Videodance
- Werewolf Heart — Christian Weber (United States, 2016, 3:59)
- Les Proies Meurtries – Hier — Paolo Santos & Sara Harton (Canada, 2020, 9:15)
- Baleines — Sylvain Dufayard (Belgium, 2025, 8:23)
- Moon Light, a glint of light on broken glass — Andrea Hackl (Austria/Portugal, 2025, 4:00)
Videoart with AI / Extended Media
- Hyper — Alessandro Amaducci (Italy, 2024, 5:38)
- Bodies that dance alone — Petra (Mexico, 2025, 4:45)
Mixed Physical Cinema / Videodance
- Ventanillas — Alex Moreno-Novelo (Mexico, 2024, 1:00)
Videodance Art Documentary
- Nos Petites Mains — Josiane Roberge (Canada, 2024, 16:03)
- Storydance about five — Dina Veryutina (Russia, 2021, 14:31)
12th Edition of EIVV — International Meeting on Videodance and Videoart (2025)
This year, the EIVV reached a new milestone with 1,350 submissions, the highest number in the festival’s history. From this exceptionally broad panorama, the curatorial focus has been directed toward works that explore the aesthetic languages of videodance and videoart — works that interrogate how movement, image, and sound are created and transformed through framing, montage, rhythm, and the interplay of choreography and audiovisual composition.
Out of the 1,350 submissions, only 10 works were selected (less than 1%) for the official program, while 19 were designated as semifinalists. This rigorous selection reflects the EIVV’s ongoing commitment to artistic quality, conceptual coherence, and diversity in both form and content.
The program presents a wide range of stylistic and formal approaches:
from abstract videoart to pure videodance, and from art documentary to experimental hybrids that include elements of videoperformance and cinema.
This diversity reflects the evolving boundaries of screendance today — where dance, film, and digital media intersect to create new forms of movement and expression.
A key feature shared by most of this year’s works is the meaningful use of music and sound. Far from functioning as mere background, music here becomes an essential structural and expressive component: defining rhythm, suggesting genre and atmosphere, and articulating the emotional and temporal architecture of each piece. This represents an important evolution in contemporary videodance, where the sound dimension contributes as much as movement or image to the work’s identity and coherence.
While the selected works differ in technique, tone, and intent, all demonstrate a strong command of the audiovisual language — where montage, camera movement, and framing construct rhythm and narrative not through dialogue but through visual phrasing and choreographic energy.
The 2025 selection thus embodies the spirit of the EIVV: to highlight creators who use the medium itself — camera, editing, digital transformation — as a choreographic instrument, expanding the possibilities of how dance can be seen, filmed, and reimagined.
Semifinalists
List of works that had been considered but do not form part of the official selection.
Video Art
– Confidences — Stuart Pound (United Kingdom, 2024) — 6:39
Videodance
– Some Body — Francesco Puppini & Matteo Palmas (United Kingdom, 2024) — 2:38
– Crack (Po Cheng Tsai & Meng Hsueh Ho, Taiwan, 2023, 9:07)
– Brimming — Josh Martin (Canada, 2024) — 15:00
– War Outside In — Sara Roig Pol (Spain, 2024) — 1:30
– Contango Historias — Juan Federico Santucho & Sabrina Daniela Castaño (Argentina, 2024) — 30:00
– Doppelganger — Daniel Rakovsky (Germany, 2024) — 9:00
– Kucha — Chenglong Tang (China, 2024) — 9:35
– Walls — Dani Cobarrubias & Carmen Porras (Spain, 2024) — 10:00
– Roots — Pavlina Tsiatsiou (Greece, 2024) — 5:15
– Illuminated Place — Dina Veryutina (Russian Federation, 2024) — 25:00
– My Relentless March of Endurance — Guy Wigmore & Masumi Saito (United Kingdom, 2024) — 15:47
– Cryptid — APOTROPIA (A. Mignone & C. Panepuccia) (Italy, 2024) — 6:12
– Noir — Marta Romero (Portugal, 2024) — 6:23
– Pulsation of Life — Yasnoyara (Maria) Brusnikina (Russian Federation, 2024) — 5:40
– The Potter — Sina Saghi (Iran, 2024) — 2:18
– Danse-toi! — Brano Gilan & Julie Gouju (France, 2024) — 19:45
VR / Extended Media
– See Through — Ofra Idel (Israel, 2024) — 15:05 (VR experience)
– Mnemonic Nebulae (Vasiliki Betsou, Greece, 2024, 8:00)
Geographic data
The most represented countries this year were as usual the United States (125 submissions), and Brazil (99), followed by Spain (74), Italy (73), the United Kingdom (63), Germany (55), France (51), Argentina (41), Canada (39), and Mexico (37), among many others. Iran (54), China (36) and India (25) have increased their participation compared to other years. More than 130 countries are listed.
