Abbey still – Angella Betina Carlos, choreographer / performer – supplied
ABBEY
Choreographer/filmmaker:
– Michael Sakamoto – filmmaker
– Angella Betina Carlos – choreographer
Angella Betina Carlos – performer
Michael Sakamoto – cinematographer, editor
Abbey depicts the interior life of a sheltered young Filipina alone in a university dance setting in middle America. Sakamoto and Carlos collaborated in an effort to bear witness to, and portray Carlos’s tenuous liminality as a stranger in a strange land.