Cinema Dance

I signed up for this class called Cinema Dance while I was registering simply because I liked both of those words, and i wanted to take as many classes at the film school as possible. the contents of the class where kept under wraps even until we got there. it was a three day getaway in a camp in the woods of the czech republic, a place called Poněšice. We were put into groups with other american and international film students and then assigned rolls to make a film. i was put into a group with a film student from croatia (who was assigned director) an animation student from israel (assigned screenwriter), a choreography student from slovania...i think (also screenwriter) and an american girl from my program (assigned cinematographer) and then i was assigned producer and editor. what basically happened is we all got really frustrated on friday trying to agree on a story, also struggling with the fact that most of us weren't native english speakers, and then on saturday we just gave complete freedom to the director who knew what he wanted and also knew how to use a camera and edit sorta kinda. i got to chose the ending song though! once i get it off my friends computer i will to you present but until then, enjoy this film made my another group in which i make a brief but adorable cameo:

Where to go? from Anya Gibian on Vimeo.

all of the angst was worth it thought because our location was soooo beautiful! as you could probably tell by the short. the camp was next to a river which was completly frozen over, i took many a photo but of course i'll have to show you later.