WEST
Short dance film
Premiere: March 22, 2025 at Cinedans – followed by international festival screenings. Online release date TBA.
Breakdance collective 155 rides from Utrecht (Netherlands) to Accra (Ghana, Africa) together with their motorcycle crew. 10,000 km of asphalt, reflection, art-making, and survival. Escaping the grind at home, riding into the unknown, chasing inspiration and fresh perspectives.
This short dance film explores the parallel between being deep in a journey — overwhelmed by new impressions, unable to fully process or make sense of them — and the ability to express all of that through movement. The memories are stored not through thought, but through motion. It’s a tough ride that slowly reveals how much we take for granted, how dance speaks across all borders, and how the most instinctive, unplanned creations often become the most honest ones
WEST was / will be shown at:
WEST has won awards:
WEST credits:
Cast: Rein Luuring, Erik Bos, Simme Bruinsma, Thomas Bos, Ewout Wisselink, Jakob Witte, Wouter Vrijlandt, Arjan Qhutbullha, Sam van Eenbergen
Direction, Camera & Montage: Thomas Bos
Choreography: Erik Bos
Voice-over: Joost Prinsen
Sound design: zondergeluid
Colour grading: Milton Broen
Titles & VFX: Rein Luuring
Production: Vivianne Werkhoven
Marketing: Thomas van Kalmthout, Marjolein Saelman
Business manager: Juul Spoor
Supported by Utrecht Municipality and Fonds Podiumkunsten
STOMPEN (FIST)
‘STOMPEN is the best (and only) dance film about anger ever'
Patrick is a garbage man, he is angry. On a forced anger management course, he meets angry people from other layers of society. Will he be able to give more direction to his anger, in order to eventually move on in his life?
STOMPEN has won awards:
Audience choice 2022 - Mill Performing Arts on Screen Greece
Editors’ choice 2022 - Mill Performing Arts on Screen Greece
Film of the Festival Award 2022 - Exeter Dance International Film Festival
Best Concept Award 2022 - Exeter Dance International Film Festival
Best General Award 2022 - Exeter Dance International Film Festival
STOMPEN was nominated for:
STOMPEN was shown at:
Go Short - International Short Film Festival (Nijmegen) | 1 - 10 April 2022
Jumping Frames - Hong Kong International Movement image Festival (Hong Kong) | 1 Sept - 2 Oct 2022
TANZAHOI International Dance Film Festival (Duitsland) | 9 - 18 Sept 2022
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival | 8 - 11 September
ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival (Roemenië) | 28 September - 2 October
The Quarantaine Film Festival (Bulgarije) | 1 - 5 August 2023
Hebei Province, cinema location at Aranya 16 & 17 September 2024 China
LEER
LEER is part II of our triptych 'Crying in your Helmet', everything from our post-process TRIP [part I], MOTORS [part III] and everything else we stand for comes together in this. LEER is the middle part of 'Crying in your Helmet'.
We made a Motor-dance film together with DOX. LEER is the first part of our triptych 'Crying in your helmet'.
In the dance film LEER we follow Hank. Hank has problems. Hank doesn’t belong. Riding his motorcycle allows him to think clearly. Above 130, everything becomes black and white. During his nightly rides he becomes so deeply entwined in his own thoughts that it is not always clear whether what he sees and hears is real. One thing Hank knows for sure: if you accelerate hard enough, no one will hear you crying into your helmet.
LEER has won awards:
International Best Screendance - InShadow Film Festival (Portugal) -
Best Direction, Best Concept, Best Sounddesign - Short&Sweet Festival (New-Zealand)
Special Mention - Finale Rotterdams Open Doek (Holland)
LEER was shown at:
Holland: Dox Zomerspecial, Lowlands Festival, Rotterdams Open Doek, Dansblok Leiden
Mexico: Movimiento en Movimiento Festival
Oekraïne – Lviv Short Film Festival Wiz-Art
Zwitserland – Ouchy Film Awards
België – Moving Pictures Festival
Kroatië – Festival Trecé uho Dubrovnik
Beirut – Bipod Festival
Portugal – Festival Curtas de Vila do Conde
Photo: Eva Beeftink ©
GAT
or HOLE.
Robbie lost 2 fingers due to fireworks. I ask Robbie how it feels to have no fingers. He says: not everything feels like something else feels. Explain to me what chocolate tastes like. I can say what it doesn't taste like: not like branches, not like water, not like sand.
'Gat' is about movement, about bodies and about feeling. It's about what you don't see, but what is there.
Hole is about what you can never name, but what is essential for it to exist.
GAT was shown at:
Nederlandse Dansdagen in Maastricht
GAT credits:
Direction & edit: Thomas Bos
Choreography: Erik Bos
Performers: Rein Luuring, Erik Bos &Thomas Bos
Decor: Jakob Witte
Sound design & music: Sam van Eenbergen & Erik Bos
Production: 155 (eenvijfvijf)
