Choreography & dance: [email protected] /   / doroteasaykaly  
Written & directed: [email protected] /   / before.the.wire  

Music rights please contact Simon Marcheterre: [email protected]

For more on upcoming films:   / beforethewire  

The first in a trilogy (check out the sequel, "Brief Candle", at    • Brief Candle  ) of screendance films about our tug-of-war with wilderness. Here we explore a building's decay. The choreography and original score are both in decrescendo to illustrate the building's retreat from the physical world, and Nature's advance on it.

Awarded Best Dance Film at the 2012 Fastnet Short Film Festival, and nominated for Best of Festival and Best Original Music.

Official Selection:
Dance Camera West 2012
FIVC 2.0 (+ Tour selection)
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Festival de Film de Lanaudiere
NSI Short Film Festival
Oklahoma Dance Film Festival
Exground Filmfest
Pop-up Film Festival
Dance on Camera Festival 2013 (+ Tour selection)
VI São Carlos Videodance Festival
Dance Camera Istanbul
Dance Camera Festival 2013 (+ Tour selection)
Cinedans 2013
FIFA 2013
Agite y Sirva 2013
Dance Moments 2013
Tiny Dance Film Festival 2013
Athens Video Dance Project 2014
Dancing Bravo! MOCA Video, Taiwan, 2014
Intervening Domain: International Dance Video Exhibition, Taiwan, 2014
InShadow - International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies 2015

Directed and Created by Duncan McDowall - http://www.duncanmcdowall.com/
Choreographed and Performed by Dorotea Saykaly - https://vimeo.com/78367697
Cinematography by Christophe Collette
Original Score by Simon Marcheterre
Costume Design by Carla Romagnoli (http://carlaromagnoli.com/)
Edited by Sebastien Delporte
Produced by Sach Baylin-Stern
Produced with a grant awarded by BravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) - a division of Bell Media Inc. - www.bravofact.com