Synergy

Project Statement
This is a passion project I created after university with fellow graduates.   

 

This short film explores identity and self-expression through the mediums of dance and fashion. We follow the journey of August, a gender-fluid person in their early twenties experiencing the mundanity of an urban, fast-paced environment. The film begins with August listening to a track of electronic dance music and immersing themselves in the audio. They are transported throughout the film to four dimensions in their mind's eye, reflecting separate versions of themself. The distinct layers of the music are performed by the different iterations of August, each exploring a corresponding movement vocabulary. The amalgamation of the separate versions of themself, and the way they dance, represents a synergy - an extended metaphor for how identity is fluid and multi-faceted.

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Credits

Starring - Emilie Bouet Conran

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Writers/Directors -

Honor West & Emilie Bouet Conran

 

Producer - Milly May Phillips

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Director of Photography -

Arnav Sharma

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Gaffer - Skye Putwain

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First Assistant Camera -

Noah Hecht

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Second Assistant Camera - Tyler Kohtz

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Choreographer - Emilie Bouet Conran

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First Assistant Director -

Milly May Phillips

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Production Coordinator -

Is Hughes

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Production Assistant - Jess Mills

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Production Designer -

Maddy Arthur

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Costume Designer -

Brandon Bolland

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Hair & Makeup Artist -

Alex Walker

 

Editor - Shrijit Pillai

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Official Poster Imagery - 

Nayumi Suyama

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Composer & Sound Design - Leon Riley

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Music Research & Development - Alex Deverell

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Title Design - Liam Heisig

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Unit Stills Photographer -

Mia Hyde

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Executive Producers - Victoria Conran & James Edward Bell

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With thanks to:

The Bonnington Cafe

Victoria Conran

Nick Teo

Nidharshan Narendran

Saatwik Ram

Poppy Landen

Jane White

Scott Eveleigh

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