Interview with Restless

Director Alexa Velez
Choreographer Alexa Velez
Dancer Alexa Velez
Composer Alexa Velez

Experimental dance film exploring themes of restlessness.

With this film, I wanted to convey the feeling of restlessness through dance. I was inspired by my own feelings of restlessness, and I found myself creating phrases of movement based on simple gestures. Restlessness is energy that feels endless but confined. The opening scene of the film begins with a moving figure, a dancer circling under a streetlight at night. The movement doesn’t stop until the very last frame, when the dancer eventually finds stillness.
Dance for film has the power to transform any space into a stage. For “Restless,” I was inspired by the setting. I was captivated by a lone streetlight illuminating a winding strip of road at a local park. There was something mysteriously isolating about this particular spot, which fit the mood for my film perfectly. As a filmmaker, I prefer to transform an ordinary location into a “stage” for dance and utilize what is available in that space to create a far more relatable and immersive experience for the viewer.
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