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ALL FILMS FILMED AND ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON 16MM FILM 1976-1983 AND DIGITIZED IN 2024
Four Short Films
MARE, Director, camera, editor, Huey, 8:30 minutes.
Music: Bruce MacLeod, flute. Sal d’Alessandro, guitar. Jack Freudenheim, Roto-toms. Shown 4th Cinemar Film Festival in Portugal and the US, 2024.
MARE Italian meaning the sea
MARE English meaning a female horse
A sailing ship glides over the sea
Horses run through fields
Young people raise sails and harness horses
Ancient myths
Echo throughout
Horses Sea
Horses Sea
Graceland Gatewalk, Director, camera, animator, editor, Huey, 13 minutes.
A meditation on Kings, specifically, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n’ Roll and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and their connection to Memphis, Tennessee, and that city’s connection to Memphis, Egypt, the home of ancient Egyptian Kings. Meanwhile the filmmaker keeps vigil at Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion gates.
Edited from live action film footage, animation, and found footage manipulated with handmade special effects.
Graceland Gatewalk was a prize winner at the Ann Arbor Film Festival going on to win additional prizes as part of the AAFF’s national tour at the San Francisco Cinematheque and the University of Texas.
The Merry Gayme of Chesse, directed, filmed, and edited by Huey. Additional camera: Abbott Meader, Richard Searls, Sound, Bruce Williams. Music performed by Greg Boardman. Film adaptation of the stage play by Huey. 10 minutes.
The Merry Gayme of Chesse is a film adaptation of the stage play of the same name performed by the Celebration Mime Ensemble under Artistic Director Tony Montanaro. The Celebration Mime Ensemble plays chess board pieces in a zany interpretation of the mayhem of a chess game that comes to life. Filmed on location in South Paris, Maine.
Suite Kinetics, (SILENT – NO SOUNDTRACK)
Director, camera, editor, Huey, Abbott Meader camera on Sukanya. 9 minutes, 1978.
Filmed on 16 mm film.
A study on movement weaving together three different performers:
*Danzas de los Concheros, a troupe of dancers performing a traditional Mexican dance.
*Garbo and Jillian, two theater artists who perform mime, physical comedy, dance, and circus arts.
*Sukanya, a classical Indian dancer, performing Bharatanatyam dance from India.
Grace, A Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross, Producer, director, camera, and editor, Huey, 50 minutes. Additional camera Abbott Meader. Music composed by Mike Nobel. Performed by Mike Nobel and Greg Boardman.
Grace chronicles the career of Grace DeCarlton Ross (1890-1983) from her days acting in silent movies with the Thanhouser Film Corporation, dancing ballet and modern dance in New York City and Boston, teaching dance to youth, on up to the 1980s when she was living in Portland, ME and still dancing in her nineties.
Shown: Opening night,“Filmdance Festival” at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, New York, 1983, “National Conference on Aging”, Washington DC; “Annual Meeting of the Society of Gerontology”, San Antonio, TX, Harvard University and at other universities in New England, and throughout Maine at movie houses, dance centers, and senior citizen centers like the Salvation Army Golden Age Center, Portland, ME, where Grace lead audience members in an impromptu dance class after the screening.