Project Bound Dance presents SHORT STACK: Chicago’s Tiny Dance Film Festival

Featuring The One Hour Project

Thursday, October 23, 2025
Doors at 6:30PM
Show at 7:00PM

Short Stack: Chicago’s Tiny Dance Film Festival celebrates the intersection of experimental artmaking, concision, and movement-based storytelling. Hosted by Chicago-based modern dance company Project Bound Dance, the festival will feature a panel-curated selection of original, independent and underground films with run times under 10 minutes created by local, national, and international artists.

The fourth iteration of Short Stack will take place at FACETS in Chicago, IL on Thursday, October 23, 2025, and will also feature the 8 original “Tiny Dance Films” created as part of The One Hour Project, an exercise that invites Chicago dance and video creators to create a micro, site-specific dance film.

Featuring the 2025 panel-selected short films:

• “Becoming” directed by Domenico Pontoriero, USA
• “Behind Closed Doors” directed by Hanna DiLorenzo, USA
• “Birth” directed by Jumana Radi, UAE
• “But What Am I?” directed by Mandy Milligan, USA
• “Change – Kramon” directed by Meredith Adelaide, USA
• “dust” directed by Noelle Kayser, USA
• “Free Mind | A Dance Concept Video” directed by Prateek Reddy Gunnam, USA
• “Hallways” directed by Elizabeth Sears, USA
• “In The Middle” directed by Saba Khatami, Iran
• “Lettre à ma fille” directed by Michael Maurissens, Germany
• “ode to flora” directed by Francesca Baron, USA
• “POETRY WITH MOTHER, DANCING IN THE SUNSET” directed by Rendro Aryo, Indonesia
• “Porcelain” directed by Paula du Gelly, Brazil
• “Silent Divide” directed by Alexander Petit Olivieri and Gary Champi, USA
• “The At Home Project: Stefany” directed by Stephanie Rankin, USA
  

Also featuring The One Hour Project 2025, with collaborations by:

• Ali Lorenz, Adanya Gilmore, Stephanie Rankin
• Dani Oblitas, Maya Paletta, Jamila Kinney
• Helen Lee, Laura Sáenz, Ashley Deran
• Kathryn Hetrick, Kait Dessofy, kt williams
• Lauren Reed, Olivia Lemmenes, Ali Lorenz
• Lena Gao, Jamila Kinney, Adanna Eziri
• Sarah Morimoto, Phill Wood, Kaitlyn Katzung
• Stacy DeMorrow, Jorie Goins, Peyton Jone
  

 

General Admission tickets are available now. 

Consider making a sustaining gift when purchasing your ticket! A sustaining gift goes beyond covering the production costs of this community event, allowing Short Stack’s producers to invest in independent artists for the work they do and create a stronger, more sustainable artistic ecosystem.