WTFF7 – Extraworks
Experimental, Dance
By Sarah Friedland
USA, 2022, 25’
o.v. English, Italian subtitles
Italian Premiere
November 16, 2024, 5.00 PM, Caracol Olol Jackson
Synopsis Trust Exercises explores the tension between the poetics of group movement and its instrumentalisation for capitalist management. Amending the choreography of team-building and the visual grammars of corporate video, the film weaves together movement from three work spaces: a fictional start-up retreat, a body work session as an interview, and a dance rehearsal.
Director’s bio-filmography Sarah Friedland (1992) is a filmmaker and choreographer. After graduating in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, she has worked in NYC for filmmakers including Steve McQueen, Mike S. Ryan, Kelly Reichardt, and the team behind HBO’s Girls. Her trilogy Movement Exercises consists of the short films Home Exercises (2017), Drills (2020) and Trust Exercises (2022). Her first feature film Familiar Touch (2024), in competition in the Orizzonti section at the 81st Venice Film Festival, was awarded for Best Director, Best Actress and Lion of the Future – Debut Film.
Trailer
Directed by Sarah Friedland
Cinematography Gabe C. Elder
Sound Assaf Gidron
Editing Sarah Friedland
Cast Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Janet Charleston, Kayla Farrish, Brighid Greene, Aaron Loux, Kayvon Pourazar. Body Work: Paula Macali. Additional performances: Steve Atti, Ira Camhi, Randi Camhi, Gladys Gaines, Edgar Che Garcia, Christopher Gilbert II, Marcus Giovanni, Mehr Icarus, Janet Miserandino, Joseph David Surico, Johnny Zito
Production Sarah Friedland, Gabe C. Elder
Distribution Video Data Bank
Web Site motionandpictures.com