North: A Love Letter

This new film by Archipelago Theatre/Ciné is a poetic dance-movement reflection on the loss of sentient creatures on the earth.

“You just don’t know who you are until you catch your reflection in the eye of an animal.”
—Loren Eiseley

Credits:

Produced by the Duke University Department of Theater Studies and Archipelago Theatre/Ciné.

Creator & Director: Ellen Hemphill
Film Designer & Editor: Jim Haverkamp
Inspired Texts Editors: Ellen Hemphill & Nor Hall
Director of Photography: Alex Maness
Wildlife Photographers/Videographers: Wink Gaines, Nina Hale & Judith Scott
Choreographers: Terry Beck, Mark Haim, Ellen Hemphill & Gerri Houlihan
Score: Allison Leyton-Brown
Costume Design: Jan Chambers
Dancers: Terry Beck, Kaity Granda, Gerri Houlihan, Derrick Ivey, Dana Marks, Tom Marriott, Bradley McDevitt, Dale Wolf & Andrea Woods Valdés

“Where is Paradise? Follow the birds, the beasts, the fishes, they will lead you to it”
—New Testament

Photo credit: Wink Gaines/LM
Collage Jan Chambers