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Nostalgia's Window

Lucent, Vivid, Flashing
Dancing light and shadow tether a solitary figure to ancestral lineages– known and unknown, sensed and lost, gathered and dispersed. Within the fire of her isolation, matrilineal tendrils unfold. Peering through the window of nostalgia the dancer marks her memory of forgetting.​
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Movement gesture, video projection, soundscape, and filmic processes converge in Nostalgia’s Window to explore the connective tissue of light and dark as a vehicle for ancestral communion. Created and produced by director Charlotte Griffin, dancer/collaborator Waeli Wang, cinematographer/collaborator Grant Speich, and composer Milica Paranosic, Nostalgia’s Window currently exists as a 16-minute experimental screendance and is in development as a 30-minute multimedia performance work for solo dancer with multichannel projection display. The screendance iteration was officially selected by Central Michigan International Film Festival, the United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival, Samaskara International Film Festival in India, and Dance Camera Pandemania in Istanbul, Turkey. Nostalgia's Window received  a theatrical residency at UCI’s xMPL in March 2022, which focused on exploring the multimedia potential of the work. Nostalgia’s Window has received generous support, funding, and in-kind resources from its creative team, milk​leaf donors, and the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Credits

Producers: Charlotte Griffin, Grant Speich, Waeli Wang
​Director / Choreographer / Editor: Charlotte Griffin

Cinematographer / Colorist: Grant Speich

Dancer / Assistant Editor: Waeli Wang

Composer: Milica Paranosic

Specifications

Genre: Experimental Screendance
​Runtime: 15:30
Anticipated Completion Date: December 2020
Shooting Format: UHD Digital, Sony A6500
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Film Color: Color

Collaborators

Charlotte Griffin

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Milica Paranosic

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Waeli Wang

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milkleaf is fiscally sponsored by Unique Projects, Inc, a not-for-profit fiscal sponsorship program administered by Pentacle (Dance Works, Inc).
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