Jonah (5 min 22 Sec)

An interview with a former African American slave accompanies a powerful dance vignette of an urban man in extremis. The juxtaposition of past and present raises questions about inherited trauma and the possibility of regeneration.

 
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Awards

Winner San Francisco Dance Film Festival Best Short Film

Best Short Film - Salamanca Moves Dance Festival

Vimeo Staff Pick

Official Film Festival Selection:

Leeds International Film Festival / Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center / Telluride MountainFilm Festival / Bucharest International Dance Film Festival / Topanga Film Festival / San Francisco Black Film Festival / Pan African Film Festival / Tiny Dance Film Festival / Harlem International Film Festival / San Francisco Short Dance Film Festival / New Voices in Black Cinema at BAM / Black International Film Festival / Big Sky Documentary Film Festival / Krakow Film Festival / Tampere Film Festival / Nashville Film Festival / Dance Camera West / LA Film Festival / Savannah Film Festival / San Francisco Dance Film Festival / Port Townsend Film Festival / Denton Black Film Festival

Credits

Directed by Andrew Michael Ellis

Performed by Ernest Felton Baker

Cinematography by Andrew Michael Ellis and Ben Stamper

Edited by Ben Stamper

Additional Cinematography by Sasha Aryutunova

Special Thanks to Jonathan Seale