Zodiak - Center for New Dance, as the foremost production house for contemporary dance in Finland, presents 8-10 premieres every year. As part of this co-production process, Zodiak puts great attention to the creation of various visual materials for and from these performances.

Many choreographers’ curiosity and generosity to open their work to a different medium as a common thread ignited the application process to seek funding, in order to take these dialogues further and test their practice-based applications.

Eventually this spark resulted in the project titled Zodiak Visions, where filmmakers/visual artists and choreographers have been invited to come together to re-imagine the stage productions; as film. 

Following rich discussions regarding the differences and commonalities between the practices of dance on film, dance for film, and dance as film; with respect to the plural suffix in the project title vision-s, outcomes have been manifold, and contemporary in true Zodiak fashion, from genre-bending fantastical thriller to absurdist existential humor. All very strongly honoring the deep-rooted historical ties between the experimental film and performance fields.

Short films; Everything is Right Before, Reddening, Jellymama, Kielo are the four gems revealed by this process.

The Zodiak Visions project also includes the VR Documentation of Will Funk For Food: A Fistful of Funk, which is not part of the screening but can be viewed through the Second Theatre app on virtual platforms.