KISMET
Kismet offers several windows into happenstance meetings in a surreal dancescape. Dancers flit through whimsical attempts to connect with each other and their expansive container. Kismet is intimately designed around three seminal works by artists Mike and Doug Starn. The film premiered at the Queens Theatre's inaugural Women Choreographer Dance Film Festival in 2021.
Director and Choreographer: Emily Kessler
Performers: Sienna Blaw, Xin Yi Pang, Kathryn Taylor, Connor Speetjens, Larissa Asebedo, Madeline Robertson
Director of Photography: Kyle Cottier
Composer: Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie
Editor: Jeremy Kinney
Location Manager: Kyle Cottier
Location Assistant and Rehearsal Director: Sienna Blaw
Generously filmed in the studios of Mike and Doug Starn
Work featured in the film: Sphere of Influence Big Bambú (any) Body Oddly Propped
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