The short dance film I created with choreographer Daniela Cardim and writer Julia-Beth Harris has been selected at San Francisco Short Film Festival and Inspired Dance Film Festival in Australia.

As pandemic restrictions lift, poetic dance film Open Up Close time travels to our collective consciousness during the height of global lockdown.

Created by choreographers Daniela Cardim and Peter Leung, in collaboration with creative writer, Julia-Beth Harris, they developed a concept which spans three continents and several generations emphasising the red thread of isolation that tied us all together.

Find yourself in the words as they break into movement and look back at the ways we have transformed as the world opens up.

A film by Daniela Cardim & Peter Leung

Poet Julia Beth-Harris

Music composition Bertus Pelser

Editing Andries Wijnker

Dancers

Monica Barbosa

Rachel Beaujean

Federico Bonelli

Hannah Grennell

Laila de Groot

Leo Hepler

Connor Holloway

Liliya Land

Sebia Plantefève-Castryck

Calvin Richardson