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Crystal Pite: Wordless Language
20224 min 23 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Joella Cabalu
Production: Nicholas Klassen (National Film Board of Canada)Robert McLaughlin (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Joella Cabalu
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.
Through a duet of poetry and self-reflection, choreographer Crystal Pite finds language to describe the wordless artform of dance. Glimpses into a rehearsal for her acclaimed work Revisor combined with images of natural and industrial forms, mirror the states of tension and connection within the human body.
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Subject categories
- Dance > ChoreographyPortraits
Credits
- recipient
- Crystal Pite
- writer
- Joella Cabalu
- director
- Joella Cabalu
- director of photography
- Aya Garcia
- sound recordist
- Ivette Novales Gomez
- 1st assistant camera
- Mikael Bidard
- 2nd assistant camera
- John Fleming
- key gaffer
- Kate Smith
- makeup artist
- Min-Jee Mowat
- hair artist
- Min-Jee Mowat
- production assistant
- Michel Barrette
- Ian Gustafson
- editing
- Linnea Ritland
- sound design
- Eugenio Battaglia
- mix
- Eugenio Battaglia
- translation
- Zoé Major
- subtitling
- Zoé Major
- titles
- Julia Pepler
- producer
- Nicholas Klassen
- executive producer
- Robert McLaughlin
- project manager
- Jasmine Pullukatt
- program coordinator
- Sylvie Azoulay
- administrator
- Victoria Angell
- studio operations manager
- Camille Fillion