Summer Friend: A Ballet Film

A meditation on transience, connection, longing, love, and loss.

  • Adam E. Stone
    Director
    Resting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
  • Adam E. Stone
    Writer
    Resting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
  • Adam E. Stone
    Producer
    Resting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
  • Sarah Baer
    Key Cast
    Janet: A Silent Ballet Film
  • Preston Andrew Patterson
    Key Cast
  • Patricia Krejcik
    Choreographer
    Bella's Teddy Bear
  • Hong Zhou
    Director of Photography
    Bella's Teddy Bear, Transgressions, Abstractly You Loved Me, The Blue Bike, Thank You for the Letter, Dying for Franjibelle,
  • Benjamin Ellis
    Editor
  • Franz Gregor Guzman
    Composer
  • Jon Clarkson
    Audio Engineer
    Abstractly You Loved Me, A Life Unhappening, Cache Girl Saves the World
  • Ned Cain
    Sculptor
  • Carrie Gibbs
    Ceramicist
  • Alexis McIntyre
    Hair
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance film, ballet film, black film
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 14, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (15th Annual)
    Atlanta, GA
    United States
    October 7, 2016
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Canada Shorts - Canadian & International Short Film Festival
    Saint John, New Brunswick
    Canada
    December 10, 2016
    Canadian Premiere
    Official Selection and Award of Distinction
  • Utah Dance Film Festival
    Orem, Utah
    United States
    February 24, 2017
    Utah Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Big Muddy Film Festival (39th Annual)
    Carbondale, IL
    United States
    February 21, 2017
    Illinois Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Eastern NC Film Festival
    Winterville, North Carolina
    United States
    April 29, 2017
    North Carolina Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Good Things/Small Packages - A Night of Micro-Shorts
    Little Rock, Arkansas
    United States
    March 27, 2017
    Arkansas Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Cinema Soup Film Festival
    Mattoon, Illinois
    United States
    September 8, 2017
    Central Illinois Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
    Big Bear Lake, California
    United States
    September 22, 2017
    California Premiere
    Official Selection
  • International HALF Film Festival
    Palak
    India
    August 14, 2017
    Indian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Sao Carlos Videodance Festival
    Sao Carlos
    Brazil
    October 28, 2017
    South American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Adam E. Stone

Adam E. Stone's latest film is the feature-length poetic essay film "Atmospheric Marginalia" (2022). His films have been featured at over 140 festivals worldwide, and have won numerous awards. Previous short poem and essay films include "If Any" (2021), "Awake" (2021), "Specks and Flashes" (2020), "Elegy for Unfinished Lives" (2020), "an entombing(dis)entombing" (2020), "Declarations" (2019), and "Gods Die Too" (2018). Previous short dance films include "Do Not Forget the Lost" (2019), "Summer Friend: A Ballet Film" (2016), "Resting Places: A Ballet Film" (2015), and "Janet: A Silent Ballet Film" (2014). He also is the writer, producer, and co-director of the feature-length fictional essay film "Abstractly You Loved Me" (2013), and is one of the co-producers of, and conducted many of the interviews for, the feature-length documentary "Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story" (DVD 2019). In 2012, Stone wrote and produced the spoken-word ballet "A Life Unhappening," which is about the impact of one woman's Alzheimer's disease on three generations of her family. In 2010, he wrote, directed, and produced the DVD novel "Cache Girl Saves the World: A Novel in Visions." He is also the author of three conventional print novels: "Xamon Song" (2006), "Kingston Fugue" (2007), and "The New Harmonies" (2009). He currently lives and works in Carbondale, Illinois.

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