Experiencing Interruptions?

Deviation, Twice Removed

A dance film investigating genetic memory.

Two souls meet in a ruin – one finding it for the first time; the other irreversibly tied. The ghostly encounter leaves the new arrival changed: sensing what happened here in this familiar yet faraway world; tentatively following threads; and seeing the path she walks echoed in this other presence.

Close to finding the source of herself, she strains to reach it, then strains to break away. Ultimately, she finds comfort in the imprints left by those who came before – and leaves her own. Filled with sadness, pain, discovery, and comfort in the ties that bind us, Deviation, Twice Removed is a poem in movement that celebrates and questions our inner inheritances.

  • Christopher Di Nunzio
    Director
  • Skip Shea
    Director
  • Erin McNulty
    Key Cast
  • Carolyn Harper
    Key Cast
  • Erin McNulty
    Choreographer
  • Christopher Di Nunzio
    Cinematography
  • Josh Knowles
    Music
  • Alexander Glover
    Sound Engineer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    dance, contemporary dance, short film, experimental short, experimental film
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • The Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival
    Southbridge, MA
    United States
    October 6, 2018
    Official Selection
  • "Deviation, Twice Removed" Premiere
    Boston, MA
    United States
    September 8, 2018
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Christopher Di Nunzio, Skip Shea

Christopher Di Nunzio was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts to a working class Italian-American family. He is a director - photographer known for A Life Not To Follow and Delusion. Having had a passion for cinema for as along as he can remember he attended film classes at Massachusetts College of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and photography classes at New England School of Photography. At SMFA he learned how to work with 8mm and 16mm film creating a variety of different art films.

Skip Shea is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, artist and actor from Massachusetts. With a strong list of short films mainly in the horror genre, Skip shows his range in other styles including as co-writer on the Day Time Emmy-nominated “Beacon Hill” for Outstanding New Approach Drama Series. In 2013, his horror short “Ave Maria” was screened internationally and won the Audience Award at the Interiora Horror Festival in Rome, Italy. It was named the Most Wonderful and Weird short at the Mascara and Popcorn Film Festival in Montreal and recently won the Most Disturbing Award from Independent Horror Awards. “Ave Maria” also screened in Justin Beahm’s Hollyshort Horror Nights at the TCL Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. And the horror short that started it all was Skip’s “Microcinema,” a sharp departure from formula flicks. It was Best Short at the 2012 Jersey Gore Film Festival, as well as a 2011 Rondo Hatton Honorable Mention for Best Horror Short. His 2016 project, “Trinity,” is his first feature-length film about the horror of a clergy abuse survivor running into his abuser years later in a coffee shop.

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