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Le Pare d'Arundel (Arundel's Lighthouse) is a 2024 French-American short film, directed by Julie Fackler, described as a poetic fable set in a French city by the sea, where a mysterious woman and a psychiatrist explore their temporal ties, mixing mortality and spirituality. It is not a famous feature film, but an auteur film that has been presented at film festivals, explores deep themes, and uses symbols such as the lighthouse, the sky, and the book The Little Prince to talk about love, loss and the perception of reality.
TORRENT Dance Company - Season 2
'Drive' is from a highly physical, theatrical dance work that explores the internal forces that propel us through life—pushing us toward success, relationships, and self-discovery—while also revealing the exhaustion and tunnel vision that come with relentless ambition. The work navigates the tension between agency and surrender to the forces that shape the trajectory of our lives and examines how these driving forces leave their mark over a lifetime, with the potential to lead to the gradual breakdown of both body and psyche, and the erosion of our deepest selves.
TORRENT Dance Company - Season 2
The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested. 'Threshold' is from an emotional dance solo in which the dancers body reaches a series of thresholds. The work navigates the build and rising to the arrival of the threshold. How does the body respond? Is it dramatic or honest? At the end of it all, is their beauty found? Or perhaps wreckage? All witnesses see is a person who dives into inner depths—alone, half-armored, and always seeking breath—as they confront darkness that feels both destructive and necessary, revealing that the only way not to go numb is to keep crossing difficult thresholds rather than avoiding them.
TORRENT Dance Company - Season 1
'Rupture' is from highly-physical duet that investigates the qualities and impacts of catastrophic events or ‘ruptures’; “sudden transitions from a quiescent state to a crisis.” Driven by the powerful and inevitable force of ruptures in nature, our lives, and our relationships, the piece studies the impact of these events on the body and psyche.
TORRENT Dance Company - Season 1
A short track from a TORRENT dance film 'Weighted.'
TORRENT Dance Company - Season 1
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we don’t know what’s really going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don’t know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to do what we think is going to help. But we don’t know. We never know if we’re going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Music from a documentary following an encounter with Syvie, director of Cœur Vers Corps whose mission is helping families with a child suffering from cancer. We observe a perspective of life and death–that death is a part of life, and it is essential that we as humans accept that we will one day die. This view is not to dismiss life but rather find comfort in it. In the midst of hardship, where can joy be found? Where can healing of the soul take place? This film explores all of this and that, even when faced with the possibility of death, life can be lived to the fullest.
This album features tracks from a series of short dance films that were made while
workshopping material for the live performance 'AIKY: Pathways to Light.'
This album is a collection of live performance tracks for the dance work AKIY: Pathways To Light choreographed by performer and choreographer Robert Kelly, performed at the Sharon Disney Lund performance space at California Institute of the Arts.
A piece for string orchestra and synth, centered on a vivid violin and viola duet.
The music carries a tender melancholy—two voices reaching through the quiet, their lines filled with yearning, passion, and the ache of something just out of reach. The violin rises with a fragile, hopeful brightness while the viola answers in warm, earthy tones, their melodies intertwining in an intimate, almost conversational embrace.
As the piece unfolds, this longing swells into a powerful climax—an emotional outcry that momentarily breaks out—before the music recedes into a deep, introspective calm. Supported by a gentle orchestral glow, the duet ultimately settles into quiet reflection, leaving behind the echo of something deeply felt and barely spoken.
The Green Light: Demo
A slow-blooming sense of mystery hangs over the track like mist suspended in the air. Soft, swirling pads shimmer at the edges, creating a world that feels both ancient and newly discovered. At its center pulses a faint green light—an otherworldly beacon that glows in rhythm with the music. It flickers not with urgency, but with a strange, patient purpose, as if trying to lead something… or someone… toward a truth hidden beyond it.
Gentle melodic fragments drift in and out like half-remembered dreams, brushed with a quiet, aching beauty. Each note is a step closer to understanding, and yet the path remains elusive.
The track unfolds like an invitation—unsettling, enchanting, and filled with the promise of discovery. It’s the sound of being guided through the unknown by a presence that feels protective, but whose intentions remain just beyond reach.