Starring dancer & choreographer Danielle Agami (Batsheva Dance Company, Ate9), with music by Sara Flindt (ZAAR) and directed by Samantha Shay, Homesick is a cinematic interpretation of Agami’s solo performance Framed, centered around a break-up, and the nomadic life of an artist.
Not only a rounded portrait of a dancer, but of a woman inhabiting an ever-evolving emotional environment, the film is a viscerally tangible story of her compulsive, introverted desire for connection.
Director Samantha Shay challenges traditional boundaries, creates new connections, and dances across the fault lines between disciplines. Speaking about the project she says, "this was a very organic process and developed into a personal portrait of Danielle. When we shot the film both Danielle and I were quite literally figuring out where we wanted to live, and looking for big changes in our lives personally and artistically. At the same time, I had felt the connection between Sara Flindt (ZAAR)’s EP Lost My Sense of Humor and Danielle’s choreography, and so the project became a constellation of three female artists from different parts of the world; one American, one Israeli, and one Dane in the Icelandic countryside. We spent a week together filming, talking about the loneliness of a nomadic artist's life, and the intrinsic human desire for connection. The film is a poetic portrait of that time."