TriKE
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Giselle Bonilla
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, theatrical
An experimental portrait of performer Brianna Mims — dancing on a roof, freezing into statuary in an empty room, riding a tricycle through a parking garage. A study in how we hold ourselves and how we're seen.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A dance film with a tricycle. That's the whole pitch and it's already better than most narrative shorts — the texture-and-mood crowd will eat, and so will I.
Maya-Deren-with-a-tricycle is a real pitch and a dance-film commitment with a parking-garage scaffold has bones. Portraits of performers are make-or-break on the performer.
A dance film built around a tricycle in a parking garage, with statue-poses in empty rooms and rooftop choreography — the texture-and-mood pitch is real but it lives or dies on the actual movement. Trusting Bonilla's eye.
Reviews
A stylish exploration of movement and attitude that reflects a spirited response to a chaotic world...wonderfully expressive and attuned to texture, color, and mood.