AWARDS: Best Film in Category: Dance, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK; Stories We Dance film festival, Best Choreography, Italy; 2nd Dances with Camera Award, Short Waves, Poland; Best Screendance Short, (up to 10 minutes), San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2015; Prix Lumière, Cinédanse, Québec; Prix spéciale du jury, Des Arts / Des Cinés, Saint Étienne, France; Best of Festival, Third Coast Dance Film Festival; Best of Festival, Utah Dance Film Festival; Audience Award for Best Short Dance Film, Cinedans, Amsterdam, 2015
Shortlisted: Frame, London Dance Film Festival, 2016; Light Moves, Limerick, 2015
Director: Marlene Millar
Choreographer: Sandy Silva
Music: “Lay Me Low” - Shaker traditional song
Performers: Andrew Bathory, Sonia Clarke, David Cronkite, Dominic Desrochers, Josée Gagnon, Josianne Laporte, Hélène Lemay, Kimberly Robin, Sandy Silva, Bobby Thompson
Cinematography: Geoffroy Beauchemin & Peter Krieger Editing: Marlene Millar
Sound design: Félix Boisvert
Producer: Sandy Silva Production company: Migration
Trailer edit by Marites Carino
Lay me Low opens a communal space of experience through mourning by bringing people together in song and movement: individual voices are woven together to make one song, steps are taken in rhythm to make one walk. Lay me low is a traditional Shaker song performed by 10 dancers, musicians and singers and it cuts right to the heart to communicate a universal feeling of loss while evoking a paradoxical sense of intimacy.
