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Casida of the Lament; Gacela of the Dark Death - The Second Incarnation

Dance filmed at the State Playhouse on the campus of California State University Los Angeles May, 2014 and at Los Angeles State Historic Park February, 2014. Through the use of matched action edits this dance film travels back and forth in time to the live performance in Los Angeles State Historic Park at a Day of the Dead alter to the live performance at CSULA's State Playhouse where the film from Los Angeles State Historic Park is projected on the cyclorama

  • Directors, Cinematographers, Camera Operators, Editors: Mark A. Hunt, James T. Sandoval, John Reyes
    Director
  • Mark Alan Hunt
    Producer
  • Choreography - Mark Alan Hunt; Narration - Mark Hunt; Music - Chamber Concerto, no 1, for 13 Instruments by Gyorgy Ligeti; Poetry - Federico Garcia Lorca; Dancers - Mark Hunt, Daniel "DJ" Glenn, Chantal Banuelos
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 21, 2014
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1080p
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16-9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Premier - California State University Los Angeles
    CSULA Student Union Theater 106.
    March 30, 2015
    North American Premier
Director Biography - Directors, Cinematographers, Camera Operators, Editors: Mark A. Hunt, James T. Sandoval, John Reyes

Mark Alan Hunt is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and anthropologist, and as an Interdisciplinary Studies Grad student at Cal State LA, his MA combines the Departments of Dance, Film, and Anthropology. He has created over 60 dance films ranging from three minutes to one and a half hours long, These films document Angelinos dancing in the city of the angels, and the dancing student body of Cal State LA. Mark will graduate this Fall 2016 and his interdisciplinary academic pursuit at Cal State LA will prepare him to be Los Angeles’ first Digital Dance Anthropologist.

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Director Statement

"To me the purer the cinema, the more it communicates it’s essential information, thoughts and feelings to the audience by means of motion, with little or no reliance on factors other than motion. Secondary factors, such as backgrounds, settings, apparel, and lighting, etc. are not cinematic, unless they are changing or moving. A reliance on such factors to make a point leads to impurity, especially if the point could have been expressed by motion," Mark Alan Hunt