A woman and a man share a timeless moment of intimacy sitting before a vast ocean. Here they muse on the enigmatic immensity of their own journey, taking us into an ethereal fantasy that is impelled by ardent love, outside of time and the constraints of questioning. Is this a memory, a dream, or an unfulfilled desire?
 

Jury Prize - Festival DesArts//DesCinés 2015

Written & Directed by Shantala Pèpe
Choreography & Performance Shantala Pèpe & Wilkie Branson
Director of photography Louie Blystad-Collins
Sound composition Rob Saunders
Project assistant Helen Williams
Editing Shantala Pèpe

Images©Louie Blystad-Collins

2024
10th anniversary of Leeds Film Festival - England

2023
Cinedans - web special edition Why We Fight - WEB
La vidéothèque nomade - Best Off Nomade #6 - Brussels

2021
La vidéothèque nomade - Brussels
Parallel Art Foundation: 'Slow Flow' dance film program - National Dance Theatre, Budapest, Hungary

2020
Cinedans FEST - 'Story of sound' program - EYE Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

2019
27ª Quinzena de Dança de Almada International Dance Festival - Almada, Spain

2017
Jacob Burns Film Center - New York, USA 
Modena - Italy 2017

2016
Espace à L'Envers - Brussels, Belgium 2016
Lafayette Public Library - CO, USA 2016
FEMCINE - Festival Cine de Mujeres - Chile 2016
No Dialog Film Fest @ Band Films Studio - Bristol, England 2016

2015
Missoula Kinescope - US 
InShadow Festival - Lisboa, Portugal 
Light Moves Festival - Limerick, Ireland 
Tipperary Dance Platform - Ireland 
Sans Soucis Festival - Boulder USA
International Dance Film Festival Brussels - Brussels, Belgium 
Flatlands Dance film Festival - Nevada, USA 
Pool15, International Dance Film Festival Berlin - Germany 
Festival DesArts//DesCinés - Saint-Etienne, France
Jury Prize - Festival DesArts//DesCinés 2015
Live at Leeds Festival - England 2015
WASP-Working Art Space and Production - Bucarest, Romania
Shortwaves Dances with Camera, Fundacja Ad Arte - Poznań, Poland 
Loikka Dance Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland 
Cinedans - Amsterdam, Holland 
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival - USA 
Festival Hors Cadre, Bright Lights of Belgium - Brussels 
University of Michigan - USA 
Dance for Camera - New York, USA 

2014
Leeds International ScreenDance Competition - England 
Dans Kamera Istanbul - Turkey 
638 Kilo Tanz Festival - Essen, Germany 
Arte 21 Galleria - Almeria, Spain 
Cuartel Viejo Espacio de Arte - Nijar, Spain