ISOLATIONS
A 16mm dance project created in response to shelter in place orders in Los Angeles, CA, March 2020. An outlet for chaos and the enduring need to connect. Safer apart, alone together.
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Talia Shea LevinDirector
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MUDA / Maritza NavarroChoreography
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Amanda Leigh JerryOriginal Song - "It's Not Much Longer Now"
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Alex KneeOriginal Song - "It's Not Much Longer Now"
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Jasmine AgredanoKey Cast
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Juliet DeemKey Cast
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Kat Devoe-PetersonKey Cast
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Lynn HongKey Cast
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Arie LevineKey Cast
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Micah MochKey Cast
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Katie PeabodyKey Cast
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Soren Royer-McHughKey Cast
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David Clifford TurnerKey Cast
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Adam LeeneCinematographer
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Lynn HongEditor
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Project Type:Experimental, Music Video, Short
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Genres:Dance, Drama
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Runtime:2 minutes 23 seconds
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Completion Date:April 17, 2020
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Shooting Format:16mm
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Aspect Ratio:1.66
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Sugar23 & Short of the Week's SHELTER SHORTS
Best of Shelter Shorts -
Dance Magazine
Video of the Month -
Free the Work
Music Video Round-Up -
Athens International Monthly Art Film FestivalAthens
Greece
Best Art Film -
Sans Souci Festival of Dance CinemaBoulder, CO
United States
Audience Award - Honorable Mention -
MOVING BODY FestivalVarna
Bulgaria
Encouragement Award -
Salute Your Shorts Film FestivalLos Angeles
United States
Opening Night Drive-In Screening -
CAPITOL Dance & Cinema FestivalWashington, DC
United States
Official Selection / Quaranscreendance -
Confinement Online Film FestivalSeattle, WA
United States
Talia is a Director, Writer, and Producer for film, theater, and virtual reality. She uses speculative storytelling and non-naturalistic narrative techniques, from dance to science-fiction, to get closer to human truths.
Her short film Next Time took home an Audience Award at the Academy Award-Qualifying Nashville Film Festival and also screened at HollyShorts Film Festival. Her dance films have been featured across international platforms and festivals including Short of the Week, Booooooom.tv, Dance Magazine, Source Creative, The Cut Magazine, and PÖFF Shorts, and she has served as a jury member for the National Film Festival For Talented Youth and the L.A. Dance Film Festival.
In her work for corporate clients such as Uber ATG and NanoString Technologies she ensures that story is always the beating heart of the project.
After obtaining her degree in Directing and Screenwriting at Carnegie Mellon University, Talia drove from her hometown of Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, where she now resides.
It is a strange time for art-making. Crisis reveals just what is essential. This project was born out of a need to reinvent community from a safe distance, to anchor in collective experience on the shores of a changing world. And it is not enough. There is so much work still to be done to hold each other through the chaos, to continue building together toward a new normal. We set out to ease the enormity of this transition for ourselves, for anyone who watches with us, through a shared dance: a glimpse of joy, the gasp of release found in moving alone together.