HOMESICK is a short dance film and a viscerally tangible story of a woman and her compulsive, introverted desire for connection. Starring dancer & choreographer Danielle Agami, with music by Sara Flindt (ZAAR) and Directed by Samantha Shay, Homesick is a cinematic interpretation of Agami’s solo performance “Framed”, which is centered around a break up, and the nomadic life of an artist. Not only a rounded portrait of a dancer, but of a woman inhabiting an ever evolving emotional environment, Homesick utilises the medium of dance to externalise, express, and even explain the harmony, synchronicity, and stutter of the interpersonal. Homesick is now exclusively streamed on NOWNESS, see it here.
CREDITS:
Director
Samantha Shay
Production Company
Source Material
Director of Photography
Victoria Sendra
Movement and Choreography
Danielle Agami
Performers
Danielle Agami, Jordan Klitzke
Music
ZAAR
Stylist
Steinunn Eyja Halldórsdóttir
Editor
Samantha Shay
Color
Silvia Grav
Titles
FISK
Special Thanks
Casey Brooks, Martin Cabejšek, and Sóley Stefánsdóttir, and Vee’s Flowers, Inc.
This film was funded by KODA KULTUR.
PAST FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
JACKSONVILLE DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
* Curator's Choice Award
ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
CAPITOL Dance & Cinema Festival
PRESS:
“Agami's performance is bracingly physical, almost uncomfortably intimate. She shifts from bestial to graceful, frenzied to poised, pulling herself on all fours or twining the air with poetic fingers. Agami herself, in the Q&A following the livestream of the film, described her performance as "bold," "open," "sexy," and "fragile." And I have to agree. In the film, she is at once a force to be reckoned with and a figure to be protected, savage as a storm, delicate as a bud.” - StageBuddy
“While only a fifteen-minute piece, fifteen minutes was all “Homesick” needed to deliver a powerful work of art that leaves you with a desire to connect.” - Onstage Blog - Review
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