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UNFIX NYC Film Festival 2023 Award Winners Announcement! 
AWARD WINNERS 2023!

UNFIX NYC 2023
Film Festival with Virtual, On-demand Screening 
May 6th - 13th, 2023
Opening Gathering Sat. May 6th @8pm (ET) free admission
Online, Zoom

This is the 7th Season of UNFIX NYC!! 
About: UNFIX NYC is a festival collaboration between RenGyoSoh (NYC) and UNFIX festival (Scotland). We have been facilitating an in-person festival since 2016 (Except for 2021). This year, we are bringing an online film festival to reflect the world we live in. Each year, we are planning to alternate online film festival and in person live performance from now on. 

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​UNFIX NYC aims to raise ecological awareness through arts. What is 'ecology'? Ecology is the relationship between all living beings on this planet and its study. How we can live without destroying, harming, and hurting each other? The world is not a 'fix'ed place. The world is continuously changing; evolving; we are changing. Ren Gyo Soh has been holding the NYC version of the UNFIX festival in a local space since 2016.  (MORE ABOUT)

Unfix NYC 2023 Film Festival
We are thrilled to announce the selected films for the Unfix NYC 2023 Film Festival! The line-up includes 13 stunning movement/dance films from our larger community that reflect the ecological world and our view of the world right now, including work from Aida Miro, Andrea Beeman's Dancing Rubies / Red Silk Dancers (Yuri Ogasawara), Anna White, Burning Bones Physical Theatre (Frankie Mulinix, Thomas Bell, and Mykal Alder June), Dianna Cortez, The Human Arts Collective (Jamie Lazan and S. Todd Townsend), Interdisciplinary Arthouse Collective (Jody Gazenbeek-Person, Donna Ahmadi and Dianna Cortez), Irena Romendik & Yuri Ogasawara, Jorge Olivo, La Pacha Apapacha (Juliana Spínola Marcili), Maria Lan Calderone, Rachelle Dart and Roxane Revon. 
Unfix NYC 2023 Social-ecological Action Project
​Led by company member, Annie McCoy

This project aims to bring art into the community and examine problems and relationships within those communities. Over the last couple of months our company members, Annie, Zak, and Miles have been using dance, meditation, and devising to further explore these relationships. On April 10th they danced and filmed in the Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn boroughs. Each member chose a specific location to which they had a personal connection to highlight something about that space. We are premiering this film on the UNFIX NYC film festival on May 6th! 
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OPENING GATHERING
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DATE
May 6th-13th
Films will be up Saturday May 6th at 8pm 

OPENING GATHERING
Free
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VENUE

On Demand
On this website
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PROGRAM

Program X: SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL ACTION PROJECT 

The Spaces That Hold Us

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Annie McCoy (Ren Gyo Soh) 
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30 min 
Documentary, Site-specific, Butoh

Artists who participated for this action: Miles Butler, Dianna Cortez, Zak Ma, Annie McCoy

The Spaces That Hold Us is a meditational movement piece that spans across 3 boroughs. This piece aims to address problems within these spaces while also blessing them as a sign of gratitude for the times when they’ve simply held us. ​

PROGRAM A


​echo chamber

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Jorge Olivo

45sec
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A Tik Tok length micro meditation on the psychological ecology of humans in our technologically augmented environment

We Give Life, We Take Life

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Jamie Lazan
​(The Human Arts Collective)
3.5 min
We shape the lens for which we live this life, sharing in our collective human experience as we evolve from and return to source. The internal echoes that reverberate within our soul liberate or diminish our quality of life, our connections and our relationship with our environment.

Plastic Not Fantastic

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Interdisciplinary Arthouse Collective
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(Donna Ahmadi, Dianna Cortez
Jody Gazenbeek-Person) 
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9min
​This is a piece about how plastic has become a part of our lives, and it lives in the environment forever. It is indestructible pollution. We eat it, digest it, and waste it. Animals also eat it and it destroys wildlife.

Global Water Dance Project - Mermaid

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Yuri Ogasawara
​(Andrea Beeman's Dancing Rubies /
Red Silk Dancers)
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14min
Global water issue in general, such as Pollution, Drought, Flooding in context of my dance background which is Middle Eastern dance with Butoh inspired.

PROGRAM B


melting away_a dance with absence

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Juliana Spínola Marcili
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La Pacha Apapacha)
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4min
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The memories of absence in a body that feels like it's melting in global warming. Symbolic hope materialized in origami birds and dry feet in love in the water.
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​Artist website

Horses

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Maria Lan Calderone

2min
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A relationship between the foot, the binding, and the land.

On the move 

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Anna White
4 min 
"On the Move" is a visually stunning film that showcases the beauty and diversity of Australian wildlife in its natural habitat, while also encouraging reflection on human nature and our relationship with the environment. Set to an instrumental track, the film takes viewers on a poetic journey exploring the intersection of the body and landscape.

Vibrations

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Roxane Revon

8min


"Vibrations" is a poetic dance, the dance of roots vibrating among Haydn frequencies & body vibrations. Plants dance in water in a symbiotic contact with human vibrations, developing among these vibrations...

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Construct: ATL

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Frankie Mulinix
​(Burning Bones Physical Theatre)
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10min

Construct” investigates the human urge to control, exploit, and impose rigid permanence on natural systems.

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PROGRAM C


Butoh. Dance of the dark soul

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Aida MIRÓ
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3 mins 
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Butoh dance in the burned forest of Ibiza (Spain)
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The Seeing Hand - Eather

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Artist's Website
Irena Romendik &
​ Yuri Ogasawara

​13 min
This is the 5th Element of our five elements pieces we have worked on in past years. Our project started as depicting the movement in water color drawing. We named our piece as "The Seeing Hand" and worked on the each elements to create unique pieces with corroboration with various artists such as vocalist, musician and videographers.

My Chamber

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Dianna Cortez
8 min
​A woman was excommunicated from her community and is living in isolation after escaping a toxic marriage. Her bedroom becomes a chamber and it's swallowing her up. She buries herself away from society. She changes her personality and her identity to cope, but she can't change the chamber of her body. Smoking is her only companion. She becomes smoke. She disappears.

Refuse

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Rachelle Dart & Hira Ismail
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​3 min


Refuse is an expiration of our relationship with trash and how it impacts our ability to connect with ourselves, nature and each other.

PROGRAM D: Ren Gyo Soh 


Untitled Fish

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Jorge Luna 
3.5min
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"Untitled Fish" depicts a person's struggle to overcome the brutal bombardment of world events as depicted by the media. ​

In Effigy

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Megan Cattau
5.4min
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‘In Effigy’ is a meditation on becoming ashes. The dancer is initially wary of inevitable forces she feels coming – here experienced as an approaching wildfire, but accepts and experiences them to let herself be transformed.

骸/Mukuro

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Ren Gyo Soh
15.1 min
"Even a one inch insect has a half inch soul"...even the smallest being has a soul and its own will, so do not make light of it. (Japanese proverb)
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Co-directed by Yoshiko Usami & Saki Kawamura
Choreography by Yoshiko Usami
​Music by Alyssa L. Jackson
Editing & Film Direction by Saki Kawamura 
Cinematography by Krzy Sien
​Performance by Annie McCoy, Megan Cattau, Zak Ma, Yokko


UNFIX NYC 2023 TEAM
Yoshiko Usami, Producing Artistic Director 
Megan Cattau, Co-Artistic Director
Jorge Luna, Program Director 
Saki Kawamura, Graphic Designer
Paul Michael Henry (Associate Producer, Founder of Unfix festival)​
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