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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About
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, MILKLEAF donors, and the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
CreditsProducers: Charlotte Griffin, Grant Speich, Waeli Wang
Director / Choreographer / Editor: Charlotte Griffin Cinematographer / Colorist: Grant Speich Dancer / Assistant Editor: Waeli Wang Composer: Milica Paranosic |
SpecificationsGenre: Experimental Screendance
Runtime: 15:30 Anticipated Completion Date: December 2020 Shooting Format: UHD Digital, Sony A6500 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Film Color: Color |
