The 2021 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 92-minute theatrical program of 7 short films selected from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival program, widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for close to 40 years. Including fiction, documentary, and animation from around the world, the 2021 program offers new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers and shows that short films transcend traditional storytelling. 

In this film premiere, dancers travel to five different Nevada locations, coming to terms with a year that has felt like five. Felt Like Five features original poetry, choreography by Caitlin McCarty and Leslie Balzer, in a film featuring performances by Collateral & Co. dance artists.

This program will also be streamed live via zoom. All registrants will receive a link before the program.  

Collateral & Co. is operationally funded in part by the City of Reno and the National Endowment for the Arts

Join us for the virtual premiere of the 2021 Third Coast Dance Film Festival. We’ll be screening ten premiere dance films followed by a conversation with curator Rosie Trump and filmmaker Marta Renzi. 

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films.

Program lineup:

2 of Us | Directors & Choreographers: Kristine Bendul, Abdiel Jacobsen

A hard day’s night | Directors: Benjamin Hoffman & Mathieu Mondoulet | Choreographer: Thibaut Eiferman

Catherine | Director & Choreographer: Kailee McMurran

Control (???) | Director: Saemi Kwak | Choreographer: Jeongyeon Yum

Dancing is an Old Friend | Director: Marta Renzi Choreographers: Leah Barsky and Jenny Tortorello Walker

Front to Back | Director & Choreographer: Lydia Hance

Lazarus | Director: Tuixén Benet | Choreographers: Tuixén Benet & Àngela Boix

ON EGO | Director: Jessica Ray | Choreographers: Jessica Ray in collaboration with Cayla Simpson, Parkour movement: Jesse Danger

the outcome | Director: Lisa Lam | Choreographer: Ashley Eng

The Woman | Director: Monika Field | Choreographers: Monika Field and Celine Bouly

View 2021 Program.

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org. 

Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the practice of portraiture on its head and in the process has taken the art world by storm.

The film Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace follows the artist as he embarks on an exciting new project: a series of classical portraits of African-American women – something he’s never done before. The film documents the project as it unfolds, tracking Wiley’s process from concept to canvas, casting his models on the streets of New York and enlisting Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy to create couture gowns for each woman.

The film offers a tantalizing look at the intersection of art and fashion and an intimate portrait of one of this generation’s most intriguing and accomplished visionaries.

Run Time: 60 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Join the Reno Phil, the Nevada Museum of Art, and filmmaker Kerry Candaele for a screening of Candaele’s powerful documentary film – Following the Ninth. Described as “thrilling, smartly assembled and gracefully paced,” by the New York Times, this film follows Beethoven’s ninth and final symphony and its impact across the world. 

Approximate running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

David Lynch’s 1980 feature film, “The Elephant Man” is a period biography in which the director’s hallmark strangeness comes from historical fact rather than his own imagination. It’s the story of Joseph Merrick–the genetically disfigured “Elephant Man” referred to in the film as “John”–who lived in Victorian-era London. The film traces Merrick’s liberation from the exploitative world of side-show entertainment with the help of a doctor who acknowledges Merrick’s humanity. Though considered one of Lynch’s more conventional works, Elephant Man is nevertheless an extended meditation on the medium of film, through its invocation of early-cinematic culture, expressionistic visuality, and use of atmospheric and sometimes destabilizing sound. 

A discussion about this film will be led by Pardis Dabashi. Dabashi is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in 20th-Century American Literature and Film Studies. Her research examines the intersection of affect, politics, and form in the Euro-American novel and cinema of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has additional interests in problems of method and literary-critical argumentation.

Film run time: 124 min

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece “Persona” tells the story of a stage actress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullman) who after suffering a psychic break, seeks retreat with her nurse Anna (Bibi Anderson) at a remote beach house. Over the course of their time together, Anna’s failed attempts to understand Elisabeth eventually transform into a strange form of merger with her. Known among other things for Bergman’s haunting closeups of the human face, “Persona” explores both the thrill and the violence of representation, the allure and the danger of trying to know the Other.

A discussion about this film will be led by Pardis Dabashi. Dabashi is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in 20th-Century American Literature and Film Studies. Her research examines the intersection of affect, politics, and form in the Euro-American novel and cinema of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has additional interests in problems of method and literary-critical argumentation.

Film run time: 81 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the practice of portraiture on its head and in the process has taken the art world by storm.

The film Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace follows the artist as he embarks on an exciting new project: a series of classical portraits of African-American women – something he’s never done before. The film documents the project as it unfolds, tracking Wiley’s process from concept to canvas, casting his models on the streets of New York and enlisting Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy to create couture gowns for each woman.

The film offers a tantalizing look at the intersection of art and fashion and an intimate portrait of one of this generation’s most intriguing and accomplished visionaries.

Run Time: 60 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Clyfford Still’s striking compositions and idiosyncratic personality made him one of the preeminent figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement. Through interviews and previously unreleased recordings, Still’s artistic philosophy and his relationships with contemporaries Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock are revealed. After his death, the legacy of the enigmatic artist faces further uncertainty, as museums vie to be the permanent home of the Still collection—if they can meet  the strict demands of his will.

Following the film, enjoy a discussion with film Director Dennis Scholl and JoAnne Northrup, Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art.

Run time: 77 min

After the moment of the gunfight at the OK Corral in late 1881, Wyatt Earp became famous in his own time. He was already known within the western territories as a tough lawman. The gunfight represented the epitome of what the wild west stood for: good guys against bad guys in a thrilling duel. The real event was thirty seconds long. The motivations behind it have complicated details. But Wyatt wanted us to forget all that. He was never shot in a gunfight and lived into old age. By chance, at a championship boxing match at the turn of the century – which became the first feature-length movie – Earp saw the power of cinema in action. He decided he could rewrite history through the magic of movies, hanging out in Hollywood in the 1920s to try to get a movie made about his life. And it actually worked.

Following the film screening enjoy remarks by screenwriter and producer Tim Kirk.

Film run time: 76 minutes