A woman in a burgundy dress performs a complex yoga pose against a white wall, balancing on one hand with her head touching the ground and her legs extended in different directions.
Veiled

Our life is a canvas. Our brushstrokes attempt to illuminate that canvas and are experiments between our emotional landscape & behaviors with our ideas, fears, chances, grief, dreams, projections, memories, ego, love. Only when we are removed from the canvas, can we unveil where our behavior & emotions play with the outcome of the latter.

Logo for the Moving Images International Videodance Festival with black, orange, and white geometric shapes and text
BIFF Sweden logo with a laurel wreath.
Red fingerprint with black and white text reading 'SEOUL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL' across it.
Logo for V Film Fest featuring an orange 'V' within a white circle, with 'FILM FEST' written in white capital letters on a black background.
Logo featuring a stylized 'W' above the word 'WILDDOGS' in bold, outlined font.
Stylized logo of a house with film strips wrapping around it, promoting the New York Tri-State Film Festival.
Logo for Rome Short Film Festival featuring a sketch of the Colosseum and text in Italian and English.
Logo for the New Wave Short Film Festival with stylized 'NW' initials and text underneath.
Red circular logo for Tokyo International Short Film Festival with white text.

Dancer / Choreographer: Katerina Beckman

Director / Editor: Lindsay Clipner

Pianist: Cameron Thomas

The phrase 'Rise in Art' written in large, stylized purple text on a black background.
A pastel-colored sphere with the words 'OTHER ODE' written across the middle in bold white text.

As Big as the Sky has screened at The National Gallery in Washington D.C. as well as screened in exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

We examine our conditioned layers of facade, created over time between our inner instincts and our outer way of moving through the world. We struggle with unzipping precisely what we feel, what we think or imagine. Our mental game of hop-scotch from past to the conditioned present suffocates our truest expression. Jumping from square to square, we can relearn how to play, how to honor that young spirit and reveal more of our inner instincts & emotions. A deep desire to return to the imaginative soul we were born to be inspires a new and colorful transparency as we age.

The dance film medium offers opportunity to reimagine spaces and cross-pollinate between artistic mediums of sculpture, dance & film. With permission granted by internationally renowned artist, James Turrell, we were honored to film within his sculpture,Three Gems ⓒ 2005. in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. His work explores the way that light and space impact the eye, body, and mind with the force of spiritual awakening. Our character's journey through his childhood memories, juxtaposed with the monotony of middle-age unfold beautifully within the concrete vessel of Turrell's Three Gems ⓒ 2005.

Man with a beard and white cap lying on the grass and wooden bench, apparently relaxed, wearing a colorful, striped shirt.
as big as the sky
A round pill capsule with a pink hue, with the words 'OTHER ODE' written across it in white, bold, uppercase letters.
The image displays the words "RISE ARTS" in large, stylized purple text.

Dancer: Jaime Castilla Garcia

Composer: Lucy McKnight

Classical Guitarist: Henry Johnston

Director of Photography: Margo Moritz

Director of Photography: Tom Kubik

BTS Photographer: Reneff-Olson Productions

Set Stylist: Jamielyn Duggan

Original Concept / Choreographer / Costumer:
Katerina Beckman

Creative Producer / Director / Editor: Lindsay Clipner

Collection of logos from various film festivals and arts organizations, including de Young Legion of Honor, National Gallery of Art, PNB Dance Film Festival, Dalmatia Film Festival, Corpo Semplice, festival banners for Dance Camera West, Bogota music video festival, Nownow short film festival, SFFFF Dance Film Festival, Thomas Edison Film Festival, WildDogs, and Seoul