NYU Florence
Sarah Friedland: Moving Images / Moving Bodies: Choreographic Research on Camera
Sarah Friedland will speak about the intersection of her choreographic and filmic practices and show excerpts from her last work Home Exercises and her current work-in-progress Crowds. Home Exercises is a short dance film and hybrid documentary investigating the gestural habits of elderly individuals in their homes. Crowds is a dance film installation, currently shooting in Bologna, that looks at the politicized choreography of crowd typologies and the slippages between them. Speaking to the research and process of making these two works, Friedland will discuss how filmic representations of moving bodies—from home workout videos to YouTube documentation—create alternative modes of imagining choreography.
Sarah Friedland
Filmmaker and Choreographer
Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her films have screened in festivals including New Directors/New Films, New Orleans Film Festival, Cucalorus Festival, Anthology Film Archives, at dozens of screendance festivals internationally and have been featured on PBS´ Channel Thirteen and on Vimeo as a "Music Video We Love." Her choreography has been presented in dance spaces across NYC, including Dixon Place, WestFest Dance at Martha Graham Studio, Triskelion Arts, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Her work has been supported by grants and residencies including the Dance Films Association, The Bellwether, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts/NEA, and Berlinale Talents where she was one of 10 selected screenwriter/directors for the 2017 Script Station/Project Lab. Sarah graduated from Brown University´s department of Modern Culture and Media and started her career assisting filmmakers including Steve McQueen, Mike S. Ryan, Kelly Reichardt, and the team behind HBO´s GIRLS. Sarah has worked on collaborative research and writing projects with media theorists Wendy Chun on slut-shaming and new media leaks, published in differences|journal of feminist cultural studies, with Erin Brannigan on the dancing body on film, and published an essay in the International Journal of Screendance on gesture and film genre. She is currently in residence with Art Factory International in Bologna creating CROWDS, a dancefilm installation.
Gail Segal
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
After 10 years of a North Carolina education (BA, MFAs), Gail Segal moved to New York City to pursue her love of visual storytelling. Among her efforts, a 15-part series for PBS, The Shakespeare Hour, hosted by Walter Matthau, a Peabody Award winning feature length documentary, Arguing the World. (co-producer). More recent films include the award winning narrative short, Filigrane, set in the Empty Quarter of the U.A.E. (writer/director), the documentary short, Meanwhile, in Turkey about women textile workers in Turkey. and the PBS documentary, Soapy, portraying a small town barber. Currently, she is developing two feature narratives, one set in the Deep South, and the other, a tale of sibling strife set in France. A published poet, translator, and essayist, she is an Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Division of Film at NYU where she also serves as the Tisch Liaison for the Global Network.