SCREENdance

Out of Phase (2024)

Out of Phase is a short experimental dance film that moves through surrealist dreamscapes, blurring the line between reality and fantasy. Embracing elements of Drag, Camp and Queer aesthetics, the film explores the ambiguity between platonic and romantic female relationships.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Cast: Serra Kosebay, Madeleine Winn 

Crew: Lauren Heckler, Marie Williamson, Alexia Kerwat, Lydia de Matos, Eloise Frey

Composer: David Johnstone

Spoken Word: Megan Kenna

Vocals: Belle Richardson

Edit Assist: Cat Caruncho

Title Graphic: Xueli Foo

Length: 9’07”

Still Photos by Eloise Frey

Filmed at The Hill Garden and Pergola in Hamstead Heath

blue (2024)

blue blurs in and out of the subconscious.

Trickles of nostalgia flow through her as she tries to navigate the full spectrum of humanness.

Every moment becomes a memory.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Cast: Blue Ka Wing

Still Photographer: Eloïse Frey

Sound: Lizzie Johnstone

Filmed at the Barbican Centre, London.

Length: 4’17’’

Chaos, baby (2020)

Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, this short experimental dance film explores themes of corporate and political power and how it can transform and corrupt people who put their own needs ahead of those they purport to serve.

Director: Lizzie Johnstone

Dancer: Bethany Reece

Sound: David Johnstone

Length: 2′ 51”

Filmed at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP!) in Hobart, Tasmania.

Curated by the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne in September 2020.

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