Dance
Elliot Caplan first joined Merce Cunningham in 1977, as cinematographer, production manager, and assistant director, and later as filmmaker-in-residence from 1983 - 1998, and director/editor for Mondays With Merce, 2008.
1977 - 2008, film/video, color/b&w/sound
Produced for
Live From Lincoln Center / PBS and featured in the program 'Curtain Up: The School of American Ballet Workshop.'
2015, HD Video, color/sound, 44:51
A continuing collaboration with choreographer Susan Sgorbati and her work involving natural movement as it relates to complex scientific principles.
2017, HD Video, color/sound, 30:30
Picture Start Films is collaborating with Paul Taylor American Modern Dance on a number of projects.
2016 - present, HD Video, color/sound
Produced for American Ballet Theatre's 2016 Season,
Koch Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York.
2016, HD Video, color/sound, 3:25
The dance form applied to screen as an abstract painterly image.
2002, DV, color/sound, 9:00
15 Days of Dance:
The Making of 'Ghost Light'
"A revolutionary project..."
- The New York Times.
20 films on the making of a ballet, choreographed by Brian Reeder, and danced by American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
2010, DV/HD Video, color/sound, 1354:00
Two Solos
An original work choreographed and performed by Holley Farmer, commissioned by Mills College, Department of Dance.