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a foreigner
Eiko Otake and Patrizia Herminjard, 2023, USA, 4m
Japanese with English subtitles
Once a person is a foreigner, she never ceases to be a foreigner. No place is hers, except her shadow. This film features award-winning, movement-based interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake, who has been a pivotal figure in site-specific dance for more than five decades.a foreigner, 4 min, 2023
‘a foreigner’ was filmed during Eiko Otake's ‘i invited myself vol. II’ exhibition at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College in 2023 and was included in her ‘i invited myself vol. III’ exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia.
Screenings:
World Premier, Dance on Camera 2024 at Lincoln Center, NYC 2023
Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival 2023
Sans Souci Dance Film Fesitval, Sept 2024
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Oct 2024
Portland Dance Film Festival 2024
Deleite
Rosely Conz and Patrizia Herminjard, 2023, USA, 4:50 min
Deleite honors the nuanced experience of motherhood by examining the embodied weight—both physical and psychological—of maternal caregiving. The title itself, Deleite, plays on the dual meaning in Brazilian Portuguese: ‘delight’ and ‘of milk,’ capturing the complex interplay of joy and struggle that defines parenting.
Music: Michael Wall
Performers: Rosely Conz and Teresa Conz Pfister
Cinematography and Editing: Patrizia Herminjard
Assistant Camera: Gabriel Wright
Production Assistants: Richard Pfister & Gabriel Wright
2023 Festival Screenings
ADF’s Movies By Movers
Dance Camera North
Red Rock ScreenDance Film Festival
Dança em foco Festival Internacional de Video & Dança
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Pupila Film Festival
RASGO
Manifest Dance-Film Festival
Midwest RAD Fest
Festival Internacional de Dança Video & Tecnologia da Unicamp
Fall Off the Bone
Year of production:2013
Running Time: 4:24 min
Filmed in Colorado following the Waldo Canyon Fire that devastated thousands of acres of forest and burned 350 homes, this work reveals the beauty within a ravaged landscape and explores the various idiosyncrasies of an unresolved relationship.
Directing, cinematography, and editing by Patrizia Herminjard
Original music by Adam Stone
Choreography and performance by Adam Dickerson and Dolo McComb
Madam & Evening: a hundred moments
Year of production:2013
Running Time: 8:47 min
Madam and Evening: A hundred moments explores the notion that dreams exist as individual experiences creating an imagined reality of unique aesthetic possibilities. The project began as a documentation of the performance installation Madam and Evening conceived by Dolo McComb and Adam Dickerson at Colorado College and presented by the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
Directing, cinematography, and editing by Patrizia Herminjard
Original music by Adam Stone
Choreography and performance by Adam Dickerson and Dolo McComb
Fragments
Year of prodction: 2015
Running Time: 4:22 min
Echoes of a Baghdad airstrike haunt a young man.
Directing, cinematography, and editing by Patrizia Herminjard
Original music by Wesley Brandt with audio from Baghdad Airstrike Apache Camera [AH-64] taken on July 12, 2007.
Official Selection 2015 Sans Soucci Fesitval of Dance Cinema Installation
Lapse
Year of production:2016
Running Time: 4 min
Over time, even the most tender moments come to pass, questioning
if they ever happened in the first place.
Filmed in Patrick Dougherty's mesmerizing sculpture "Footprint in Green"
in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.
Curated by Green Box Arts greenboxarts.org
Directing, cinematography, and editing by Patrizia Herminjard
Original music by Mike Wall, soundFORMovement.com
Performers: David Foster and Tiffany Tinsley Weeks