Dance + Film
Screendance is an opportunity to combine the technical possibilities of film with the embodied lineage of dance to create a third thing, a hybrid medium with new possibilities and landscapes. Makenna has been creating screendance since 2018, when she filmed and installed an underwater dance installation at Hampshire College, and has since gone on to produce, direct, and film screendance on 16 and 35mm.
Eros
2024
DP - Anjelica Paz
Director & Performer - Makenna Finch
Shot on 35mm with help of Mono No Aware
The Damsel
2024
Conceived, Directed, Performed - Donna Castello
Videography & Editing - Makenna Finch
Costume Design - Jennifer Paar
Visual Designer - Larry Jackson
Falling from Grace
2024
Videography - Makenna Finch
Directing - Maddy Runyon
Dancer - Artie Ticknor
Shot on 16mm film
Pearl
2024
Videography - Makenna Finch
Performed - Rylan Joenk and Mel Harrison
A 16mm film adaptation from a larger performance piece choreographed by Rylan Joenk
Filmed through Mono No Aware, rear screen projection class taught by Connor Lawson and Steve Cossman
Stroke Play
2020
Filmed, Directed, Performed and Edited by Makenna Finch and Eleanor Crawford
Stroke Play is a queer screendance using golf as a landscape to critique environmental and social decay. A couple in red moves through shifting objectives as they reveal the game they are playing is rigged.
Sub-Liminal
2018
Filmed, Directed, Installed by Makenna Finch
Dance by Eleanor Crawford, Remy Swift, Arabella Magruber, and Makenna Finch
Sub-Liminal was a three-channel video that was installed and performed in three variations - a dance performance, a site specific performance in the pool, and a gallery installation.