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 discussion with the audience to share their curatorial concepts.

Another highlight, International Feature Film Selections, features masterworks by arthouse auteurs including Derek Jarman, Carlos Saura, and Patrick Bokanowski’s celebrated 35mm classic L’Ange, which had been screening non-stop in a Tokyo arthouse cinema for almost a decade.  Hong Kong Premiere includes Su Hui Yu’s The Trio Hall,  renowned Swedish music video director’s DuEls, Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s documentary Chinatown Cha Cha, and Asif Kapadia’s Creature, showcasing the cross-cultural landscape of dance on screen.

From 16mm experimental films to Digital: Artistic Visions across generations

The Artist Collection features works by TERAYAMA Shuji, Ellen PAU, Katrina McPHERSON, and Mouvement Perpétuel.  Pivotal Japanese New Wave filmmaker TERAYAMA Shuji has created numerous surreal and experimental films, and his selected works for the screening will be shown in 16mm;  Hong Kong video art pioneer Ellen PAU has significantly shaped Hong Kong’s visual culture, with her edgy aesthetic concepts; Among them, video artist Katrina McPHERSON and Marlene Millar/ Philip Szporer from Mouvement Perpétuel will be leading workshops for the Festival – Dancing Through the Frame – a dance film workshop with Katrina, and Collaboration in Creation workshop with Marlene and Philip.

Sino-Phone Focus Debuts: Showcasing the rich diversity of dance film shorts from the Chinese-speaking Region

The new curatorial section Sino-Phone Focus highlights dance film shots from the Chinese-speaking regions, presenting the cultural expressions and creative vitality of Sino-phone dance imagery.  With 2 focuses: Body and Landscape and Playful Entanglements, works span regions and generations, unfolding diverse styles and narratives. Among which, Loop/Hole (Excerpts) and Once Upon a Time in Rain are launching their world premiere at the Festival, marking a new page in Sino-phone dance cinema.

Competition Section – Showcasing the experimentation and potential of emerging directors                           

The competition has received 581 entries from around the world, with a total of 19 outstanding works selected for screening during the festival.  This year, the Jumping Frames Competition offers six major awards, including the Jumping Frames International Award, the Jumping Frames Asia Award, Expanded Frames Award, Student Award, and the Audience Award determined by live audience voting, along with a Ringo Chan Award dedicated to Hong Kong-based filmmakers starting this year, to support and celebrate the power of local artistic creation and pay tribute to Ringo for his contribution to the Festival.

This year, Elysa WENDI was again invited as Festival Curator, and for the fourth year, co-organizing with Eaton Hotel Hong Kong. Together with our venue partner Broadway Cinematheque and venue supporter Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Jumping Frames 2025 brings you a series of screenings, lecture performances, workshops, and more, where movement transcends time through shifting media.

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 Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival

‘Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival’ (Former ‘Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Dance Video Festival’), presented by the City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) since 2004 is the only festival of its kind in Asia, committed to promoting the intersections between performance making and moving image, cinechoreographic interventions and the body.

City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC)

Founded in 1979, City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) is Hong Kong’s flagship contemporary dance company. With a legacy of over 200 original works, CCDC embodies the city’s dynamic spirit through bold, imaginative, and boundary-pushing performances.

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