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Synchronic
*Awarded Best Dance on Camera, Best of Mount Holyoke,
& Best of Festival at the Five College Film Festival 2009*
Performance, Film & Editing by Merli V. Guerra.
Music by Peter Jones.
Special Thanks to Ellie Radue, Samantha DeSuze, Kaitlin McCarthy,
Brittany Maldonado,
and Kim Allen for helping film this piece.
Copyright Merli V. Guerra 2008
What Seems So is Transition
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Louise Layman
Music by Ludovic Einaudi
Copyright Merli V. Guerra -May 2009
PURPLE & GREEN
PURPLE & GREEN is one of five short Color Dance films I recently created,
which were projected onto buildings around Mount Holyoke's campus at the beginning of May.
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Abolee Montanari
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - April 2009
RED
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Louise Layman
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - March 2009
YELLOW
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Kaitlin McCarthy
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - March 2009
BLUE
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Alex Krogh-Grabbe & Dana Ouellette
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - May 2009
WHITE
Filming & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
Performed by Hannah Beatty, Jen Cobb, Stacey Funston, Brittany Maldonado, & Kaitlin McCarthy.
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - May 2009
Without Pause Installation
Without Pause is an installation piece I presented in Chapin Auditorium at Mount Holyoke College as the start of the
Senior Dance Concert '09 "In The Still," featuring the choreography of Kim Allen, myself, and Kaitlin McCarthy.
A total of six curtains with two projections swayed in the space as audience members found their seats the half hour prior to the show.
Seen here is some footage of the work (taken by Clarity Guerra) within the space on opening night.
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - March 2009
46 Minutes
Performance, Film & Editing by Merli V. Guerra
This piece studies a single space within overlapping times. I filmed my bedroom for 46 minutes during the day, then projected
the image of my sunlit room onto the same space at night, and integrated myself as a central character. I then moved in
very slow motion
over the course of the original 46 minute footage, speeding my actions up later digitally.
The result is a strange quality of light in the space, as well as an odd movement style within the character.
These are excerpts from the five minute piece.
Copyright Merli V. Guerra - March 2009
