Brighton Screendance Festival 2024

After a successful launch in 2022, we're rolling out the red carpet again for Brighton Screendance Festival 2024. Taking place over the weekend of 16-17 November 2024, the theme of this year’s festival is 'Women in Landscape' and is inspired by Ukrainian screendance pioneer Maya Deren. The festival will showcase a curious and playful mix of movement, choreography and moving image.

Featuring special screenings of acclaimed films from both international and local screendance artists, newly commissioned work by young filmmakers and an event for children and families, Brighton Screendance Festival 2024 offers a chance for everyone to delve into the diverse and dynamic world of dance on screen. For the first time, we’re also offering a free digital stage (giving access to global screendance for all) and a film made specifically for visually impaired audiences.

Save money with the Brighton Screendance Festival Pass. For £15 you get access to all festival events (excluding Nature Inside), resulting in an £8 saving compared to buying each event individually. To take part in this offer first buy a festival pass here, and then book tickets for each festival event, which will then appear as 'free' to you.

Presented in partnership with CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival and Carousel.

Image: Ghostly Labour by John Jota Leaños and Vanessa Sanchez.

Date and time
Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 November 2024
Location
The Dance Space

Brighton Screendance Festival at a Glance

Saturday 16 NovemberSunday 16 November
2.30 pm: Yn y Golau (In the Light)10.30am: Nature Inside
4.30pm: Homegrown (Featuring Young Filmmakers Commissions)3pm: Invisible Landscapes
7pm: The Best of London International Screendance Festival 6pm: Fame

Brighton Screendance Festival Events

An image from the Yn y Golau film. A black square holds a large circle/porthole through which a slither of DNA appears. Two dancers, seen from above and small in relation to the image, emerge from the darkness at the bottom of the image, press their hands against the ‘glass’ of the porthole, and peer through.

Yn y Golau (In the Light)

An accessible 12-minute dance film based on the physical science of light waves

Saturday 16 November 2024
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Yn y Golau (In the Light)
A white woman dressed in black crouches down and points a camera at another white woman dressed in dark clothing who is also crouching down. The subject is in profile and has one arm raised and another slightly outstretched. They are in a white room bathed in a warm red light.

Homegrown: Screen Dance by Local Artists

A series of selected films by local artists making dance for screen

Saturday 16 November 2024
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Homegrown: Screen Dance by Local Artists
A young person with blonde long hair tied back in pig tails crouches slightly in an alley way. They are dancing and have both arms out slightly. There are graffitied walls to the side of them and a bollard with stickers behind them

Young Filmmakers Commissions

Watch three screen dance films made by young people and inspired by the subject 'women in landscape'

Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 November 2024
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Young Filmmakers Commissions
Mexican people in traditional working dress dance in a green field. They all hold percussion instruments and strike various poses.

The Best of London International Screendance Festival

The best of London International Screendance Festival returns to Brighton Screendance Festival

Saturday 16 November 2024
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The Best of London International Screendance Festival
Two people dressed in casual clothes dance while stood on sand at a beach. Green grass on sand dunes and a blue sky is behind them

Nature Inside

A nature-inspired adventure for children aged 2-8 years and their families

Sunday 17 November 2024
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Nature Inside
A person wearing a headscarf and a white shirt with dark trousers sits on a wooden chair on a sandy beach in front of the sea. A large moon takes up a significant portion of the right hand of the sky behind her

Invisible landscapes: Curated by Claudia Kappenberg

An afternoon of films from international artists engaging with hidden aspects embedded in the environments in which we live.

Sunday 17 November 2024
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Invisible landscapes: Curated by Claudia Kappenberg
A group of performing arts students dance in the street, on cars, in New York City

Fame: Film Screening

Take a step back in time to 1980s New York where the hair is big and the tights are tight.

Sunday 17 November 2024
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Fame: Film Screening
A man and woman embrace in a dance in front of an altar. The woman has a visible disability. She is wearing a light coloured vest and black three quarter length trousers with black pumps on. Her hair is tied into a ponytail and is very long. The man is wearing a white shirt, black trousers and shoes. The altar is white and gold and the church that surrounds it is made from wood and ornate.

Digital Stage

Stream films by artists from Montreal, LA and the UK

Monday 11 - Sunday 17 November 2024
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Digital Stage

Partner

Carousel logo - four adjoined coloured circles above the words

Supporters

Lottery Grant Award Logo
The Fenton Arts Trust logo - The words The Fenton Arts Trust written in a serif font with a crest of three feathers above the e