STEMME 2 SKY
Concept, Camera, Editing: Francesca Chudnoff
Lead Dance Artist, Collaborator, Concept: Caldeira
Composer: Omar David Rivero “Driftnote” Dancers and Collaborators: Armando Cruz & Kalliane "Yofidelic" Brémault Production Assistant: Margarita Soria
Produced by: Parks N' Wreck -Kristine Flores, Emily Law,& Sarah Tumaliuan
This film was made possible through a partnership with Arts In The Park Toronto, supported by Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Arts Foundation
“A meshing of growth and destruction. Cuttings of a fever dream. She detangles the dead roots. Waters her body. Mists her mind. Sparks from the seed, to the stem, the tunnel, the tower, and then to the sky.”
photo by francesca chudnoff
all things grow
Concept & Direction: Francesca Chudnoff
Editing: Francesca Chudnoff
Costume Construction and Styling: Francesca Chudnoff
Camera Work: Francesca Chudnoff with assistance by Tia Kushniruk
Sound Design and Original Score: Nigel Edwards “NomvdsLvnd”, Omar David Rivero “Driftnote”, and Francesca Chudnoff
Production Assistants: Sandra Chudnoff & Tia Kushniruk
Dancers: Frannie Antoinette, Kalliane Brémault, Francesca Chudnoff, Sandra Chudnoff, Nigel Edwards, Jasmyn Fyffe, Tia Kushniruk, Sydney McManus, Danah Rosales, Lauren Runions, and Devon Snell
All movement created in collaboration with the artists!
Official Selection and supported as a Commissioned artist in Festival of Recorded Movement 2018
photo by e. chudnoff
“my seeds will cross and then take root
and leave you to an empty room
lonely lonely that is you
lonely lonely that is you”
LONELY LONELY
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Francesca Chudnoff & Lukas Malkowski
Produced in 2016
Cinematography by Kristine Flores
Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "Lonely Lonely" by Feist
- Special Thanks to Eric Chudnoff and Clay & Paper Theatre
- Official Selection at New Blue Film Festival 2016
- Featured in The Dance Current 2016
photo by krista newey
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
ALGIA
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Francesca Chudnoff
Produced in 2017
Cinematography by Krista Newey
Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "Kannon 1" by Sunn o))) with Interview with Charles Bukowski on "love"
Costume Design and Construction by Driftnote
- Official Selection at Festival of Recorded Movement 2017
- Featured in The Dance Current 2017
SUN
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Lukas Malkowski
Produced in 2016
Cinematography, Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "A Sunday Kind of Love" by Etta James
- Official Selection at Toronto Urban Film Festival 2016
- Official Selection at dmic: dance made in canada/canada au fait Film Festival 2017
“And my arms need someone
Someone to enfold”
CARRYING PLACE
a film by Driftnote
Featuring Aria Evans
Produced in 2017
Creative Direction and Original Music Composed by Driftnote
Cinematography and Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
"Sacred Trust" poem courtesy of Chief R. Stacey Laforme
Executive Producers - Rui Pimenta and Layne Hinton
Commissioned by Art Spin in partnership with Myseum of Toronto
- Premiered at Art Spin Humber Bay 2017
“we are the keepers of these lands”
“These little town blues, are melting away”
STILL
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Francesca Chudnoff & Tori Mehaffey
Produced in 2017
Direction and Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
Original Music "New York New York" Theme, Performed by Carey Mulligan from Shame OST
Sound Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
- Special Thanks to Natasha Poon Woo and 509 Dance
“Am I vital
If my heart is idle?
Am I doomed?”
HOLLOW
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Sydney McManus
Produced in 2017
Cinematography, Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "Doomed" by Moses Sumney
“I’m fist fighting with fire
Just to get close to you
Can we burn something, babe?”
CLOSE 2 U
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Francesca Chudnoff, Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen, Justin de Luna, Joey Eddy, Omar Al-Samadi, Robert Kingsbury, Stephen John, Zach Murphy
Produced in 2017
Cinematography & Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "Love on the Brain" by Rihanna
“effigy - a roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger.”
EFFIGY
a handmade aesthetic and sad girl gang production:
Featuring Jasmyn Fyffe
Produced in 2017
Cinematography, Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "...I Lay My Ear to Furious Latin" by Ben Frost
& "I Put a Spell on You" by Nina Simone
This film was made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and RTCollective
- Premiered at Screen:Moves in partnership with Dancemakers Centre for Creation in December 2017
:24 review
a handmade aesthetic and sad girl gang production:
Featuring memories by Francesca Chudnoff plus all the wonderful people that stay or passed
through my 24th year.
Produced in 2016
Cinematography, Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "Rushes" by Frank Ocean
im laying here thinking about 24. laying here thinking about the passage of time. thinking about loss. and thinking about what I've been able to gain. I didn't really know what to do with it all until I was forced to just let it go. drain it out. I felt my entire body completely empty out about 8 times over this past year. making space and then filling those spaces right back up. to the point of overflowing. feeling the threat of the lights inside of me being dimmed all at once. and then darkness interrupted by joyful expansion. happy memory filling in the gaps. everything new seems to shine brighter than what came before. but the pain that creeps in can cut deeper into old wounds.
small bits. wet blobs of colour. pink and blue. knotted into my bed sheets. moving boxes. west to east. skin to skin. glittering light. heavy bags. countdowns. messages failed. all of the sweat between us. rushes of blood. yellow skies. chlorine. tired eyes. infatuation. then loyal waiting. purple hearts. rolling in dust on a warehouse floor. friends. lovers. queen street at 4am. broken fans. new ink seeped into my arm.
switching back and forth between the feeling of "endlessness" and then the repetition of loss and starting joy all over again. I can't go a day without thinking about it. experiencing it. how do those two things happen all at once? maybe we can only experience a few perfect moments of acceptance and allowance of both to happen to us. my memory both comforts and hardens me.
what did I learn?
ask for help. know what you need. ask for help.
input is just as important as output fran.
be open to love. not empty for it.
I want you to know that my whole life changed in this year. I think yours did too.
I still don't think we know how to love one another. I still don't think we know how to say goodbye.
you know im obsessed with connection. but there's been a change in me and I'm still searching to know what that connection really means for me. for you. you experience the world in a really special way when it's constantly in relation to someone else. is that what we do? I don't know. but what I do know for sure is that I love the way you make me feel.
photo by lukas malkowski
“Bygones we wasted here, ride around in my two wheels
I love the way you make me feel...wake me up in a week”
familiar
a handmade aesthetic & sad girl gang production:
Featuring Jasmyn Fyffe & Emmanuelle LePhan
Produced in 2016
Cinematography & Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
Original Music Composed by Driftnote
- Special Thanks to The Collective Space
“the feeling of the familiar”
DOORS
a handmade aesthetic and sad girl gang production:
Featuring Drifttnote & Francesca Chudnoff
Produced in 2017
Edit and Direction by Francesca Chudnoff
Original Music "Simulacra 1" by Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason & additional sound by Francesca Chudnoff
Sound Editing by Francesca Chudnoff
- Special Thanks to The Collective Space
“simulacra - an image or representation of someone or something, and unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.”
“72 Person Ball Passing” (Trailer)
"72 Person Ball Passing" by Charles Moulton, featuring an all-Toronto cast
A Fall for Dance North 2017 festival commission
Filmed and Edited by Francesca Chudnoff
Music by Steve Reich
Rehearsal Director Jordana Deveau
Project Manager Anisa Tejpar
Costumes Jordana Deveau, Odessa Kelebay
World Premiere December 10, 1980 Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, USA
Parts of the movement vocabulary for this work were inspired by and adapted from dances created in collaboration with choreographer Janice Garrett, Moulton’s co-artistic director in Garrett + Moulton Productions.
a work for 14 girls (trailer)
Concept & Direction by Krista Newey
Produced in 2017
Featuring Sonja Boretski, Jocelyn Mah, Kylie Thompson, Crystal Finn-Dunn, Eva Connelly-Miller, Kiera Shaw, Alandra McKirdy, Julie McLachlan, Zsakira Kian Del Col, Jill Seggie, Cindie Cantet, Meaghan Houghton,
Carley Stastny and Michaëla St-Pierre
Cinematography by Francesca Chudnoff
Music "My Heart And I" by Luton Girls Choir & "Foundation" by Years & Years
