WAVE

Knowbox dance
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kNOwBOX dance Film Festival 2025

Dallas Feature Spotlight

WAVE (2023)

Directed by Bart Hess

📍 The Netherlands ⏱ 3:40 minutes

Wave is a psychedelic dance film where repetition and time manipulation transform a dancer’s movements into a new, living organism.

Film Description

‘Wave', a psychedelic, immersive dance film, in which a dancer's body is manipulated in time through the use of repetition, delay and the repositioning of frames. This creates a choreography in which the history of a movement forms a new kind of organism.

Meet The Makers

What do you hope to communicate with our audience through your work?

I hope to inspire how fantastic the human body is.

Our theme this year is "Bodies in Motion: A Dance Film Celebration" to move beyond borders and dance through time. Telling stories only the body can speak. How do you think your film relates to this theme?

Wave shows a choreography in which the history of a movement forms a new kind of organism.

Biography

The work of Bart Hess is of the most tactile and intuitive nature. Crossing

boundaries between design, fashion and art, his oeuvre is a series of studies into

materiality, (virtual) reality and technology. He is fascinated by the human body,

which he tends to cloak in ways that have little to do with styling or fashion but more so with performance art and sciencefiction.Hess makes material studies, (animation) video•s and photographs with the relationship between man and material, nature and technology at the centre. In his work he’s looking for the tension between attraction and repulsion when

exploring the intimate relationship that materials have with our skin.