The Genre-Defying Short Dance Film You Didn't Know You Needed in Your Life

Behind the Wall
is not your average dance film. It follows Katrin (Alexandra Turshen), a dancer who has very recently retired after an injury (she’s still in a CAM walker), as she moves into an old apartment building in Brooklyn in an attempt to shut away her old life. Lying awake listening to the radiator rattle, she discovers worlds of movement just on the other side of her bedroom’s crumbling plaster—scenes of delight and melancholy that dissolve with the light of day.

Filmmaker Bat-Sheva Guez has created a 16-minute film that is part magic and part ghost story, but also an ode to Brooklyn and a character study of a dancer coming to terms with a life that isn’t quite what she planned. Check out the teaser below, and head to the film’s official site to view it in its entirety.