Margarite

Dance Film

Director: Alyssa Tennyson
Director of Photography/Producer: Forrest Sassaman

About Margarite

Margarite is a short dance film taking place in a subluminal-like limbo space. The film explores themes of breaking bonds, and contained freedom through dance and movement. As both a producer and DoP on this project, a lot of the lead-in time was centered around logistics. Alyssa was busy constructing a set with a small band of colleagues while I prepped the visual approach, and got our lighting team on the same page. On the day I was able to smoothly pass over producing duties to my lovely wife Chelsea so that I could focus solely on shooting.

The short was shot in a day but required a rehearsal day in advance to explore organic movement between the dancer -Louisa Pancoast- the camera, and the story that Alyssa wanted to tell.

The film is currently in post production.