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PREHEAT Festival


PREHEAT is an annual short film festival based on the idea of what digital movement can be. We are driven by the idea of challenging boundaries through what we call "border blending offerings” and invite experimental works that translate choreography into the edit of the film, movement of the camera, and the dance that may take place in front of the lens. We seek to challenge preconceptions of what a dance film can be, and ideas on who can perform or create experimental video art, short films, and Screendance worls. We prioritize creatives who are a part of Austin’s marginalized communities: BIPOC, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities. Preheat started as a grassroots gathering in a backyard as an alternative form of organizing and sharing art. Every artist that is chosen will receive a small stipend to honor their work done behind the screen thanks to the city of Austin cultural arts funding program.



PREHEAT 2022
19 artists 
14 films

PREHEAT 2022
14 artists 
11 films
Preheat A film by Oddalys Salcido and Celeste Camfield on a study of the Hawthorne effect; a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. The eternal worm Exploring practical lighting and day/night cuts. A personification of space. Created by Abby Armstrong Del corazón nace el enjambre / pt ii:cucarachicxs del corazón nace el enjambre activates la cucaracha as a time-traveling hemispheric avatar in order to bring forth a brown feminist offering for the future. DIRECTOR/PERFORMER Erica Saucedo ARTIST-COLLABORATORS/PERFORMERS Bonnie Cox , Angelica Monteiro DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sarah Annie Navarrete MUSICIAN/COMPOSERS Ále Acevedo , Walter Nichols COSTUME DESIGNER/STYLIST Kelsey Oliver SCENIC DESIGN/TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Chris Conard CO-EDITORS Angelica Monteiro , Kelsey Oliver , Erica Saucedo Shit talk: and ill leave you soon My life is ugly, and courageous and sexy and course, like my hair. When I get to abstract the human form I find myself looking closely to understand the emotions that reside in bodies, the gestures that make us recognizable to the world, & the similarities between us & our carbon counterparts- the dirt, the snake, the flower, the shit. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t wonder what separates me from anything else.  Shit Talk: and I’ll leave you soon is the very real life outtake. What is raw footage and audio of myself and an ex partner arguing amidst improv has been sped up to sound whimsical and dainty. This is a story about grazing beside one another, meeting temporarily, and parting. It’s also documentation of myself as my own oracle as I illuminate what is to come : and I’ll leave you soon. The first iteration was titled trashTalk. The second iteration, titled shit Talk, is a re-encounter/ re-staging of the first interaction in hopes of better understanding the root of our miscommunication and the third is this… Footage from both are included in this final iteration.  This is me metabolizing my experience. Digesting.    Shit, im dreaming A film by Aidan Rodgers and Elysia Perkins Us and A film by Rachel Nayer and Taylor Ana Valdez No more Something created by Alejandro while working through a loss and a desire to laugh about it Sink dance A final digital media project for Alex Miller’sMFA at Hollins University Wake up call Wake Up Call is one in a series of short time-lapse duets between Amy and her hat shot and scored while the world around them sleeps. Sound/video/hat by Amy Running on empty a Flyer Club Network short Animated/directed by Connor McCampbell Friends of Melvin A film by BLiPSWiTCH with music by Michael Brown, Peter Brown, Erik Garven, and Alan Kahler