“Jumping Frames 2025: Time Machine” — Takes you on a time-travelling journey of screen and dance. From 16mm film to digital, over 100 films spark a vibrant dialogue between performance and moving image, choreography and media
[vc_row enable_arrows_animation="no"][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="50373" img_size="large" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]After two years hiatus, Jumping Frames 2025, presented by the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) returns with a new theme “Time Machine” this year, featuring screenings, lecture performance, and workshops, where movement transcends time through shifting media. The festival will take place from November 13 to 23, 2025, at the Eaton Hong Kong and Broadway Cinematheque. Tickets are now available at the Broadway Cinematheque website, its box office, and through art-mate. The past is the future - a century-spanning journey through dance on screen The opening films – “Jumping Frames Time Machine” transport the audience to the festival’s own genesis. Through 4 dance films from 2004 – Alienation, Ambiguity, dancescape@margin@beijing, and 10 Nights Rehearsal Note - curator Elysa WENDI revisited the inaugural impulse of the festival, returning to the early dance film experiments and re-experiencing the cityscape of Hong Kong, capturing the dancers across two decades with their movements echoing through time. EXPANDED SPACE: Sometimes I See the Future by CHOY Ka Fai, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw follows. The lecture performance explores the worlds of cosplay and digital entertainment, discussing the notions of telepresence in the age of extreme self, and the possibility of future bodies through virtual avatars. This adaptation is supported by the Eaton Hong Kong Residency in collaboration with Jumping Frames, incorporating a virtual and philosophical aspect to this year's festival. Expanding International Art House Cinema Landscape Spectrums: International Art House Showcase continues the dialogues with International film festivals, including Ann Arbor Film Festival of USA, POOL – MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin of Germany, Fiver Dance Film Festival of Spain, and Arkipel Jakarta International Documentary Experimental Film Festival of Indonesia, and more. LIGHT CONE of France will be screening a selection of 16mm films. Curators of the four festivals will also appear at the screening, engaging direct