'Alone Together Dancing'

Name: James Bridge    Degree Programme : Cinema & Photography Level 2

Project Title: Silhouette

Drama or Documentary (Please circle or delete)

Project Strap Line: ‘Alone together, dancing’

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Modern day urban New York a geeky and shy business man in his 20’s in a monotonous 9-5 office job systematically works, comes home, watches TV and goes to bed day in day out. His mundane lifestyle is devoid of any friendship or excitement and he longs for a break from his loneliness. One Day he comes back and hears Salsa music coming from an apartment across the street. Looking to the apartment opposite he see’s the silhouette through the window blind of a beautiful girl dancing and he smiles. His routine of watching TV is replaced by watching the girl who dances to the same music every night and he upholds this routine religiously overtime falling in love with her. His lack of self-esteem prevents him from approaching her to begin with but eventually he plucks up the confidence to go over and see her. He asks the all-seeing yet passive janitor about the girl who tells him ‘no-one knows much about the dancing girl’ and that she’s been there for a year adding to his intrigue. He buys some flowers and climbs the stairs as the music intensifies. Opening the door he sees the girl hanging from the ceiling the open window allowing her lifeless body to sway in the wind with the vinyl on repeat. There are now two silhouettes in the apartment dancing to a different more romantic tune and the viewer is asked the question is the man embracing her body or has he joined her in suicide?! With the music in the background the janitor looks up and see’s the two ‘lovers’ dancing before looking down to continue to brush the autumn leaves off the pavement. Life goes on. A twisted horror romance which pays homage to Hitchcockian cinematography and Film Noir stylisation this films is set to intrigue, surprise and pain the audience.