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

Globe Cinema

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/