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  • Shattering Conceptions (2025)
  • Short | 8 min | Short
Shattering Conceptions (2025)
Short | 8 min | Short
Shattering Conceptions is a dance short film that explores the stages of grief through the fractured lens of depersonalization, anxiety, and depression. Unfolding without dialogue, the piece communicates entirely through raw, expressive ...See moreShattering Conceptions is a dance short film that explores the stages of grief through the fractured lens of depersonalization, anxiety, and depression. Unfolding without dialogue, the piece communicates entirely through raw, expressive movement and visual abstraction, immersing the viewer in a psychological landscape where language fails but the body still remembers. The narrative follows a non-linear emotional journey in which identity unravels, time collapses, and the self becomes both observer and captive. Each phase of grief-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-is not portrayed as a clear step but as a recurring rupture, a physical manifestation of inner dissonance and mental fragmentation. The body repeats, pleads, and resists, caught in a loop of emotional entrapment where healing remains elusive. Choreographic motifs of stillness, repetition, and sudden disruption reflect the paradox of holding on to what once served us-even when it becomes destructive. The piece questions what it means to outgrow a version of yourself that once felt essential, and how the process of letting go can feel like a quiet, personal rebellion. Rather than providing resolution, Shattering Conceptions invites the audience to sit inside the ache of transition: that intimate, disorienting space between who we were and who we are becoming. It's a meditation on survival, identity, and the painful beauty of surrendering to change when clarity remains just out of reach. Written by Ricardo Ludgero Souza See less
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Creator
Ricardo Ludgero Souza (created by)
Directors
Somi Briggs (director) | Ricardo Ludgero Souza (co-director)
Producer
Somi Briggs (producer)
Composer
Ricardo Ludgero Souza (music by)
Cinematographers
Ruben Kelly (cinematographer) | Jay-Lewis Mitchell (cinematographer)
Editor
Somi Briggs (edited by)
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Updated Aug 10, 2025
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Aug 10, 2025 (United Kingdom)

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