Music and Songs in 2021 UMFF

2021 UMFF Music Video and Songs 
     A Moorish Girl with Her Rattle Stick
United States | 3min Music Video
Director: Iara Guedes
Synopsis: "A moura do maracaxá" is a melancholic song that reminds us of a Portuguese fado. With many instrumental layers and dramatic drapery adorned by wind instruments and a string quartet. The duo Benji & Rita based in New York portrays here iconographic aspects of Brazilian culture.
   

.Butterfly Talk
China | 4min Music Video
Director: Xiaoyan Shang
Synopsis: "Butterfly Talk" is an emotional song. In the beautiful music, children who are eager to go out of the mountain are like butterflies in cicada pupae, listening to the sound of clear spring water dripping in the outside world and the sound of the wind singing gently. It is far away and the place where dreams begin

           
  Brave
United Kingdom | 3min Music Video
Director: Pia Toscano and Jon Altham Spent my time, trying to begin
Synopsis: Changed my life, changed my sparkle within
Echoing to the sound of my sin
Holding my tears, now I won't give in
     Climbing Up The Walls
United States | 7min Music Video
Director: Tom Pressano
Synopsis
           
    George Floyd: Say Their Names
United Kingdom | 8min Music Video
Director: Christopher R. Owens, Alyssa Dann (Student)
Synopsis: When will the "last" time be the LAST time? Chris Oledude's single "George Floyd" has now been re-presented in the powerful video, "George Floyd: Say Their Names." America's struggle for equality and fairness throughout law enforcement parallels those struggles faced by minority groups in every society where the majority feels empowered to disregard civil and human rights.
   Hide & Stay
Australia | 6min Music Video
Director: Alec Uittenbosch
Synopsis: Seven members of Melbourne based Rock band, "The Brungas," find themselves in a thrilling stalemate, who will survive?

           
   

 Lonely BANGKOK Day & Night
Japan | 6min Music Video
Director: BushiWADA
Synopsis: "DAY & NIGHT" of towns around each station in BANGKOK. A Japanese video composer ,Bushi WADA, trims around each area with "Lonely" ,which is his GoPro on its last legs.

   

 Nian
China | 4min Music Video
Director: Xiaoyan Shang
Synopsis: "Nian" is a love song, through slow and beautiful melody, described young lovers committed to each other with pure, selfless, and eternal love.

           
    Mysterious Pathway
United States | 7min Music Video
Director: Andrew Misle
Synopsis: This music video represents three separate individuals going about their day and their struggles. It resolves as they find a reprieve and peace in nature, music and dance.
   

 Rejoice Abyssinia
United States | 7min Music Video
Director: Gail Simpson (Music), Bichu Tesfamariam (Film)
Synopsis: Opera Frontier went to Ethiopia in January 2019 to collaborate with Circus Abyssinia. Featuring circus arts fused with traditional Ethiopian instruments and dance, Opera Frontier repurposed an aria from Handel’s Messiah (Rejoice Greatly) with lyrics that place four young Ethiopian circus artists at the center of an empowering scene. Rejoice Abyssinia celebrates young women and the leaders who inspire them.

           
   

Roots (Sequoia)
United Kingdom | 4min Music Video
Director: Raphael Fimm
Synopsis: In the middle of the night
There your light can shine the brightest
Help someone to find their way home

     Saintfield: "Into the World”
Canada | 20min Music Video
Director: Adrian Smith
Synopsis: A documentary/concert film performed by alt-World, neo-classical duo Saintfield. Features the performance of the 4 songs from their debut EP titled "Into the World"
           
     Saintfield: "Into the World”
Canada | 20min Music Video
Director: Adrian Smith
Synopsis: A documentary/concert film performed by alt-World, neo-classical duo Saintfield. Features the performance of the 4 songs from their debut EP titled "Into the World"
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     SAU SAU
Chile | 3min Music Video
Director: Isabel Custer
Synopsis: A Latin American woman visits Easter Island, learns the traditional courtship dance and falls in love with the island, the culture and its people.
           
     Straight Into The Ocean
United States | 6min Music Video
Director: Allen Ling
Synopsis: This visual and audio work is about heartbreak, closure, friendship and tragedy. We follow the journey of lovers, and witness two very different outcomes. Completed in 2020, the original song and visual story is loosely based on real life events.
     Summer of Girls
United States | 3min Music Video
Director: Nick Canton
Synopsis: A lifeguard experiences her first real Summer lust from afar..
           
    That's Life (The Politician Speaks)
United States | 4min Music Video
Director: Malcolm Solomon
Synopsis:
     The People
United States | 4 min Music Video
Director: Malcolm Solomon
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    The Silence
United States | 4min Music Video
Director: Malcolm Solomon
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  Ubercock
United States | 8min Music Video
Director: Katya Kan
Synopsis: “Ubercock” is an attempt to create new and original content with an artistic flair whilst fitting into the mainstream hip-hop genre. Female vocals by Los Angeles singer, Dusky Dawn a.k.a. Shawna Cupples and male voice/ track by the rapper, Denis Deft Martinez.