Private Project

Flatland No 1

A nervous woman distracts herself from her mundane existence with vividly danced daydreams, hoping to awaken to a world in color.

  • Robin Cantrell
    Director
    Odyssey, Triptych, City of Dreams
  • Alexis Gideon
    Director
  • Robin Cantrell
    Writer
    Odyssey, Triptych, City of Dreams
  • Alexis Gideon
    Writer
  • CONSTANT JOHN PRODUCTIONS
    Producer
  • Giovanna Gamna
    Key Cast
    "Lucia"
  • Kody Jauron
    Key Cast
    "Rakish Beatnik"
  • Joe Raffanti
    Director of Photography
  • Amy Saunder
    Movement Cinematographer
  • Charles Rousell
    Memory Cinematographer
  • Noah Kalina
    Drone Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Dance, Noir, french new wave, music
  • Runtime:
    35 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Robin Cantrell, Alexis Gideon

With a professional performing career spanning two decades, Robin Cantrell has worked with numerous dance companies including City Ballet of San Diego, Rioult, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, and, most notably, as a member of Battery Dance for 12 years. With Battery, Robin performed, taught, and presented her own choreography in over 60 countries. She is the subject of the award-winning documentary Moving Stories, about the company's cultural diplomacy work.

Robin currently dances for Gabrielle Lamb's PigeonWing Dance and is the Artistic Director of Indelible Dance: a Brooklyn-based dance company that creates otherworldly dance films and presents multimedia immersive dance events.

Her most recent dance films, ODYSSEY, and TRIPTYCH, have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including Best Screendance of the Year at the 2022 Independent Shorts Awards.

Robin Cantrell is a native of St. Paul Minnesota and received her BFA in ballet performance at the University of Utah as a Willem F. Christensen scholarship recipient.

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Alexis Gideon is a visual artist, composer, and performer best known for his innovative animated video operas and installations.

Gideon’s novel category-defying work has been shown and performed in many prestigious institutions throughout the world including: Moderna Museet Stockholm, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, the Andy Warhol Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, MOCA Cleveland.

As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon creates interdisciplinary works that examine alienation, subjugation and the human condition. The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program in January 2013.

His work is in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL, The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.

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Director Statement

Robin Cantrell and Alexis Gideon (Constant John Productions) create films that tell stories entirely through dance and music and feel both contemplative and propulsive. Cantrell and Gideon share a passion for the beauty of existence and human connection. Their professional partnership is, in fact, a friendship that deepens through their trust-based creative process; the one pushes the other – and is inspired by the other – to reach further, experiment more, think bigger, dig deeper. Their essential thesis is that magic is everywhere if we make ourselves vulnerable enough to see it, and their working relationship is itself a case study of what their films are about.

Cantrell's background as a professional dancer and choreographer combines with Gideon's background as a contemporary visual artist and composer to create truly novel and convention-defying work that pushes the boundaries of the film medium.