Post Production stills of new dance art film featuring Thornhaven Manor, Roman, and Jennifer

This past weekend Nicolette Swift (my wife) and I had the pleasure of working with Roman and Jennifer to shoot a dance film in Thornhaven Manor. Roman and Jennifer are a local Columbus dance duet that engages audiences by combining their skills in traditional ballroom dancing with edgy improvisational dance that is paired with dark industrial music. Their style of dance is a perfect fit for a film that would feature a haunted house, AKA Thornhaven Manor. Thornhaven Manor is a large estate in New Castle, Indiana that has been vacant until recently. It has recently been purchased and the owner is performing renovations to make the estate more accessible. In the past, paranormal investigators, musicians and others have used the house as a focal point to create a sense of the beyond. For our purposes it was a suitable location to create a short dance film that focused on a man and a woman bound to the house, longing for an eternal dance together even though all that’s left of the house are the flies, and spiders. Even a swarm of bees has moved on to another plane of existence (see the still below). We hope to have the film edited and ready to send to festivals in late August 2014 under the production company Nicolettecinemagraphics. Enjoy the photos.