The Projectionist

Digital Video Short. A lyrical and poignant love story, James, a young cinema projectionist, grieving the loss of his mother, watches an enigmatic flame-haired woman in the cinema where he works.

• Director: June Gersten Roberts
• Writer: Richard Shaw
• Producer: Michelle Eastman
• DOP: Martin Radich
• Editor: Anton Short
• Music: Heather Fenoughty
• Executive Producers: Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council 2007 Produced as part of the Digital Shorts Scheme 2006/7

As is the Mother 2006

A digital Video by Jenny McCabe and June Gersten Roberts

As is the Mother… so is her daughter

Two brides, one pregnant, one an older woman, dance within a sumptuous setting

Chasing Angles 2004

Three explorative dance videos experimenting with focus and framing, Chasing Angles project placed entry level camera and editing equipment into the hands of the dancers.

• Director: June Gersten Roberts
• Dancers: June Gersten Roberts and Gerry Turvey
• Music: Howard Haigh

Grey 2006

A Dance Video contemplating subdued colour, shifting light and passing movement as a solo dancer ascends a stairwell.

• Director June Gersten Roberts
• Dancer: Alice Jordan
• Camera: Sean Moody
• Music: Howard Haigh

Grey was first filmed as part of the South East Dance 4 Camera Intensive Workshops 2005 Made with funding from Arts Council England Grey has been screened at visual arts exhibitions and at live Dance events in the UK.

Chiaroscuro Studies and Enter Shekina

From Five Video Sketches 2005

These video sketches are elliptic mediations on the theme of the Shekina, the mythical embodiment of the Sabbath in mystic Jewish tradition; The Shekina is symbolized as a bride, awaited throughout the week, who dances into the welcoming home on the Sabbath eve.

• Director: June Gersten Roberts
• Dancers: Rachel Thomas, Nicola Boyes and Sarah Gough

Singular Duality Part Two:

video backdrop for live performance. Filmed throughout the course of one day, Singular Duality Part Two is an intimate video portrait of the relationship between a dancer and her two year old daughter.

The video records danced and natural movements, edited into a tender video dance for projection behind the live performance of Singular Duality, performed by Lisa Dowler of Merseyside Dance Initiative