Josh Begley

Edén Villa (pseudonym) and anonymous Minneapolis residents evade and resist the paramilitary occupation of their city, in a winter landscape where masked agents abduct children, residents travel in trunks, shackled prisoners are loaded onto airplanes within eyesight of vacationers, and bicyclists track the movements of an invading force.

Edges of Ailey cuts through performances, interviews, and additional archival material and weaves through social, political, and cultural conditions that shaped the world famous choreographer, Alvin Ailey. [Overview courtesy of Kya Lou]

Constructed from footage of every regular-season concussion in the NFL this past year, this film transforms these collisions with terrifying balletic grace.