My proposal is two experimental films made by hand drawn animation and archival footage that explore dance and protest:

Ghost Dance (2019) is an experimental film that uses as base 1894 footage of the Sioux American Indians dancing the ‘Ghost Dance’ the piece explores dance as protest, dance as a form of resistance against injustice and the imposition of foreign powers exploring the cosmic, the magical, ancestors, technology and politics. Footage of the 1894 Sioux Indian Ghost dancing in resistance against the white settlers in North America and protest dances in other locations such as Gaza, South Africa, Peru, Jerusalem, Armenia among others.

Link: https://vimeo.com/309703512
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The experimental film Clash (2020-21 -in production-) continues this exploration of movement and protest. Focusing on footage/sounds taken from the social unrest protests in Chile, Brazil and Argentina in 2019 and others around the world, with animations of the arrival of the European conquistadors to pre-Columbian America the film focuses on the clash of cultures using bodily motion and sound as strategies of resistance. Intermixed with animations using as base primitive dances connected to the fight for freedom and to the raise of mob masses.

1 mt extract of Clash (working draft in progress). Actual duration around 7-8 Mts:

Link: https://vimeo.com/428950720
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