Film: Sunscreen Serenade, The Bentfootes, Grasshopper, A South Bronx Tale, Dream Girl, On the Road with Judas, Gallery Sunscreen Serenade Sunscreen Serenade pays homage to great dance film techniques of the 1930's, translating the Hollywood soundstage to a "microfilm" video environment. The subject, the ozone layer, is presented as a Depression-era musical where the audience is invited in on a joke that evokes the larger-than-life scale of a movie musical while simultaneously communicating the truly mini cast and scope of the film. Performers "disappear" against a black-draped background spotlighting paper cut-out chorus-girl torsos in a variety of scanty costumes. Fingers become legs doing knee slides, marching formations, and flirtatious, military-precise kicks. "Dolly" shots, zooms, and "boom" shots reference and showcase the signature camerawork of a Busby Berkeley number. Sunscreen Serenade was created through the support of an EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2008, supported by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. Director, Choreographer: Kriota Willberg Producers: Patricia McGuire, Kriota Willberg Associate Producer: Gretchen Weber Assistant Director: Jeremiah Kipp Editor: Connor Kalista Director of Photography: David "Squid" Quinn Music and lyrics by Carmen Borgia Vocals by Alison Davy and Carmen Borgia Sound Editor: Carmen Borgia Puppet, Set, and Animation Design: R. Sikoryak Animation and Titles: Steve Sikoryak, Joe Sikoryak (designWELL) Costumes: Jennifer Lee Costume Assistant: Brittany Adaire Wood-Stockman Lighting Designer: Roderick Murray Technical Director: Emma Rivera Dance Captain: Beth Simons Administration, Prop master: Gretchen Weber Production Assistants: Heidi Brewer, Madeleine Maloy, Marta Renzi, Gretchen Weber Performers: Professor/Sunbather.........Karina Lesko Student........Nathanael Buckley Classroom and finger chorus Heidi Brewer Nathanael Buckley Carly Pansulla Beth Simons Carmen Smith Gretchen Weber Kriota Willberg Thanks: Vanessa Adato, Todd Alcott, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Dixon Place, Jessica Ames, Julie Betts, Lise Brenner, Helene Lesterlin, Martha Pinson, Catherine Porter, Leslie Strongwater, Marya Warshaw An EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2008, supported by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts ­ Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA Sunscreen Serenade ©2009 Kriota Willberg. All rights reserved. For Marjorie