SHORT FILM
As Big as the Sky
As Big as the Sky has screened at The National Gallery in Washington D.C. as well as screened in exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
We examine our conditioned layers of facade, created over time between our inner instincts and our outer way of moving through the world. We struggle with unzipping precisely what we feel, what we think or imagine. Our mental game of hop-scotch from past to the conditioned present suffocates our truest expression. Jumping from square to square, we can relearn how to play, how to honor that young spirit and reveal more of our inner instincts & emotions. A deep desire to return to the imaginative soul we were born to be inspires a new and colorful transparency as we age.
The dance film medium offers opportunity to reimagine spaces and cross-pollinate between artistic mediums of sculpture, dance & film. With permission granted by internationally renowned artist, James Turrell, we were honored to film within his sculpture,Three Gems ⓒ 2005. in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. His work explores the way that light and space impact the eye, body, and mind with the force of spiritual awakening. Our character's journey through his childhood memories, juxtaposed with the monotony of middle-age unfold beautifully within the concrete vessel of Turrell's Three Gems ⓒ 2005.
Dancer : Jaime Garcia-Castilla
Composer : Lucy McKnight
Classical Guitarist : Henry Johnston
Director of Photography : Margo Moritz
Director of Photography : Tom Kubik
BTS Photographer : Reneff-Olson Productions
Set Stylist : Jamielyn Duggan
Original Concept / Choreographer / Costumer : Katerina Beckman
Director / Editor / EP : Lindsay Clipner
CULTUR’HALLE FILM FESTIVAL
26 - 27 October 2023
FONCTION CINEMA Maison des Arts du Grütli 16, rue du Général Dufour 1204 Geneva
https://chff.ch/
NEXT UP! DALMATIA FILM FESTIVAL - CROATIA
JUNE - DEC 2024… TBA
http://www.dalmatia-filmfestival.com/en/
CORPOSENSIBLE / DRUPA CENTER
24 JUNE 2023
DRUPA CENTER
Via Cornolera, 13 Basalghelle di Mansuè, TV
https://www.drupacentre.com/corposensibile.html
WILD DOGS INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL
617 8 Avenue Southwest
Calgary, Alberta T2P 1H1
Canada
https://wilddogs.ca/
THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL
18 February 2023
12 August 2023 - National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
https://www.nga.gov/calendar/film-programs/art-films-special-screenings/international-shorts-best-thomas-edison-film-festival.html/2023/08/12/1200
DANCE FILM FESTIVAL PRAGUE
11 - 13 May 2023 Cinema Světozor, Prague
https://www.tanecnifilmy.cz/en/
Los Angeles Premiere at DCW / Dance Camera West
JAN 20 2022 - INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM #2
http://www.dancecamerawest.org/2023schedule
BOGOTÁ MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL
DEC 1-6 2022
http://www.dancecamerawest.org/2023schedule
Premiering at SFDFF / San Francisco Film Festival
NOV 7 2022 - BAY AREA SHORTS PROGRAM
https://sfdancefilmfest.org/fall-festival-2022/
What Came with Spring
WHAT CAME WITH SPRING is a short documentary about engaging with the community in conversation about the Black experience through choreographic medium & performance. It challenges the audience to take this conversation beyond the theater and into the world. Through Christian Warner's choreographic exploration, he leans on his research about the history of vaudeville and minstrelsy in Kansas City. Each artist dissects their character roles within the production, pulling from their ancestors, their supportive creative process and their own life experience.
Stage Director / Choreographer : Christian Warner
Dramaturge : Jeremy dé Jon
OWEN/COX DANCE GROUP AD : Jennifer Owen
Music : The Black Creatures
Dancers / Artists :
Emara Vonaé
Christopher Page-Sanders
Shaina McGregor
Sam McReynolds
Taylor Collier
Christian Warner
Film Director / Editor / EP : Lindsay Clipner
Veiled
Our life is a canvas. Our brushstrokes attempt to illuminate that canvas and are experiments between our emotional landscape & behaviors with our ideas, fears, chances, grief, dreams, projections, memories, ego, love. Only when we are removed from the canvas, can we unveil where our behavior & emotions play with the outcome of the latter.
Dancer / Choreographer : Katerina Beckman
Pianist : Cameron Thomas
Director / Editor : Lindsay Clipner
NEXT UP!
PNB DANCE FILM FESTIVAL - PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
APRIL 13 2024 AT 4PM - MCCAW HALL / SEATTLE CENTER
https://www.pnb.org/season/events/dance-film-fest/