SAROJ CHAUHAN

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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Void

Winding upwards, gazing downwards, a solitary figure, dancer Erin O’Rourke journeys through an old labyrinthine staircase as a metaphor of her psyche. Moments of déjà vu and multiple selves emerge in a dance film that conjures ideas of psychological entrapment of women historically.

Festival Screening

The creative development of Void was made with the support of a stART Grant from Metro Arts. Completed in December 2020 (premiere in 2021), between May 2021 and April 2022 Void has been selected in Dance (Lens) Festival at Dancehouse Melbourne, Open Vision Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, 11th Festival de Cine-Arte en la Frontera, San Cristóbal-Venezuela, Tipperary Dance Program TDP’21 International Dance Festival, Tipperary, Ireland, Florence Dance on Screen Festival, Florence, Italy, Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Greece, Vesuvius International Film Festival, Campania, Italy (finalist), Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany (Best dance film), Short to the PointBucharest, Romania (Dance category), 7th Dancinema Festival, Washington D.C., Dance Camera Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, In Shadow 14th Annual Screendance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, Dumbo Film Festival, New York, USA (Semi Finalist), Red Movie Awards, Reims, France(Award Winner – Reims Excellence Director), Short Film Factory – Bucharest, Romania (Award Winner – Dance category), Dark Veins Horror Fest – Lecce, Italy (Award Winner), Stockholm Short Festival Stockholm, Sweden (Award Winner – Best Dance clip), San Francisco Indie Short Festival, San Francisco, USA (Award Winner – Best Dance Short Film), 8th ScreenDance Festival Stockholm, Sweden, Braga International Video Dance Festival, Portugal, Rotterdam Independent Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Semi-finalist), Sacramento World Film Festival, California, USA (Semi-finalist) and Milan Arthouse Film Awards, Italy (Nominee – Best Dance Film).