Canis Major, 2020
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An artist suffering from server writers block relies on the friendship of their dog in this
multi-genre sci-fi short. Based on many true stories, this video-animation hybrid ruminates the
relationship between dancing and earthly survival at the "end of the world"
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Written and Animated by Charli Brissey
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Featuring text from "Dancing at the End of the World: Choreographies of Time and Uncertainty" (forthcoming manuscript 2021)
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Awards:
Winner: Best Experimental Film Audience Award, OUTFEST
Winner: Spirit of the Festival Award, Third Coast Dance Film Festival
Finalist: Best Experimental Film, Frostbite International Indie Film Fest
Finalist: Best Short Film, Les Mains Gauche Feminist Film Festival
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Screenings:
National Screenings:
-OUTFEST: Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA, USA
-NEWFEST: New York LGBTQ Film Festival: New York City, NY, USA
-Dumbo Film Festival. New York City, NY, USA
-New Jersey International Film Festival. New Brunswick, NJ, USA
-Bush Films L WORD Launch Party. Brooklyn, NY, USA
-JAX MOCA (Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art). Jacksonville, FL, USA
-EnCore Dance Film Festival. Decatur, GA, USA.
-ROGUEFEST Dance Film Festival. Raleigh, NC, USA
-ADF’s Movie by Movers. Durham, NC, USA
-Jersey Shore Film Festival. Asbury Park, NJ, USA
-Sans Souci International Festival of Dance Cinema: Boulder, CO, USA
-Austin Revolution Film Festival. Austin, TX, USA
-ARTS X SDGS Online Film Festival. New York City, NY, USA
-Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. Indianapolis, ID, USA
-Loyola University Feminist Film Festival. New Orleans, LA, USA
-Frostbite International Indie Fest. Colorado Springs, CO, USA
-Third Coast Dance Film Festival. Reno, NV, USA
International Screenings:
-Leeds International Film Festival. Leeds, ENGLAND
-Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival. Paris, FRANCE
-TLVFEST: Tel Aviv International LGBTQ Film Festival. Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
-GAZE: Scotland’s LGBTQ Film Festival. Dublin, IRELAND
-Canine Feminist Ethnography Symposium. Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
-CINEMQ: Shanghai Queer Film Series. Shanghai, CHINA
-FEM TOUR TRUCK. Lisbon, PORTUGAL.
-Brighton Rocks Film Festival. London, ENGLAND
-ECOFeminism Film Festival. London, ENGLAND
-Les Mains Gauches: Queer Feminist Short Movies. Marseille, FRANCE
-Screen.dance: Scotland’s International Festival of Dance on Screen. Edinberg, SCOTLAND
-Asolo Art Film Festival News. Asolo, ITALY
-Some Prefer Cake: Bologna Lesbian Film Festival. Bologna, ITALY
-Proseso de Error: Festival Internacional de Video Experimental. Valparaíso, CHILE
-Antolia International Film Festival: Istanbul, TURKEY
-International Queer Film Festival Merlinka. Merlinka, SERBIA
-NIFF London: New Independent Film Festival of London. London, ENGLAND.
