Fiver Dance Film Festival

Spectrums: International Arthouse Showcase

Fiver Dance Film Festival

Curator : Alex PACHÓN

FIVER is an independent festival based in Madrid that explores the creative and political intersections between cinema, the performing arts, the moving body, and digital media. Since 2012, it has supported works that challenge conventional approaches to screendance and hybrid cinema, encouraging experimentation and bold aesthetic languages.

Throughout the years, FIVER has presented a wide range of projects across genres and formats — from short films to performances, installations, and research-based creations — always centering artistic freedom and a desire to rethink our relationship with image,movement, and space.

FIVER is more than a screening platform — it’s a growing ecosystem of artists, thinkers, programmers, and audiences. With minimal resources and maximum commitment, FIVER continues to build bridges between cinema, choreography, performance and digital art — inviting new ways of watching, feeling and moving together.

Curator’s Notes

This program offers a personal perspective on the richness and diversity of dance cinema produced in Spain over the past 15 years. Each of the selected works explores the relationship between the moving image and the body from radically different angles, and yet they resonate deeply with one another — building a shared space of tension, rhythm, and narrative curiosity.

I’m particularly drawn to curating selections that confront the aesthetic fatigue and formal limitations that too often plague the videodance field. This program is an attempt to open up space for works that operate freely across genres, contexts and traditions. From horror and narrative drama to site-specific experimentation and poetic documentary, these films have screened in major film festivals of all kinds: from conventional to experimental, even horror.

Take Timecode, for instance — a choreographic gem that not only won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, but was also nominated for an Oscar. That alone says a lot about how far the dialogue between dance and cinema can reach when it embraces complexity and risk. I hope this selection offers an inspiring and unexpected window into how bodies and images can meet — not as illustration or ornament, but as co-authors of the screen.

—Alex PACHÓN