DANCE TIME-LAPSE

Dance time-lapse is the combination of slow movement with time-lapse video techniques as a way of
inviting people to move in tandem with the cycles of the natural world. Learn more about my practice in this MCAD-Jerome Fellowship interview.

Okay Overall

2021, dance time-lapse video installation, cyanotypes, music boxes.
Includes collaboration with Anissa Abdel-Jelil, Katie Rose Marie, Wabigonikwe Raven.
In the MCAD Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, MCAD Gallery February 1 - March 7, 2021.


Okay Overall: What if We Just Sit Here

three-channel video installation, 7 min


Okay Overall: Exposure

cyanotype of stills from "What if We Just Sit Here"


Okay Overall:  Decompose

three music box interactive sculptures with stills from "What if We Just Sit Here"

excerpt of "Okay Overall: What if We Just Sit Here"


La Napoule

2019, video, dance time-lapse, 4 min

created while in residency at Château de La Napoule 
2020 | Walker Art Center | We Take Everything with Us | Minneapolis, MN
Watch my interview with FilmNorth

excerpt of La Napoule


Caldera

2019, video series, dance time-lapse series. Created in collaboration with Gisell Calderón, while in residence at Caldera Arts Center (Sisters, OR).

excerpt of Detroit Lakes, OR (part of Caldera dance time-lapse series)


Batikh

2018, video, dance time-lapse, 9 min

2019 | SooVAC | Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness | Minneapolis, MN
2019 | The Black Box Theatre | St. Cloud Film Festival | St. Cloud, MN
2019 | The Trylon Cinema | Altered Aesthetics Film Festival | Minneapolis, MN
2018 | Bryant Lake Bowl | Cellular Cinema 38: Curator's Potluck | Minneapolis, MN
2018 | Free Truth | Media Days | Minneapolis, MN
2018 | Carleton College Weitz Cinema | Northfield, MN


Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a fiscal year 2017 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Batikh is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

excerpt of Batikh


Kerkethen

2015, video, dance time-lapse, 5 min 45 sec

2017 | The Southern Theater | Altered Aesthetics Film Festival | Minneapolis, MN
2017 | Better World Museum | Feminist Video Quarterly | Minneapolis, MN
2016 | Bryant Lake Bowl | Film North Cinema Lounge | Minneapolis, MN
2016 | Weitz Cinema | Carleton COMPS Symposium | Northfield, MN


Dance Time-lapse Experiment Series 2016

2016, video series, dance time-lapse