REEL Art
2025-2026
Core Dance presents... REEL Art: Video Technology + Installation Art
REEL Art is a platform for original film installations - a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art - making use of the storefront windows of Core Dance’s studio building. Coupled with all aspects of the surrounding environment of the Decatur Square, passersby/the audience are affected by this ingenious visual experience. As an installation, this work is unique in its use and design for the Core Dance Studio windows.
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Films screen nightly, 7 nights each week, dusk until midnight.
Core Dance storefront windows – Square in Downtown Decatur.​
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REEL Art Artists, John Killacky, Rosie Trump, and Douglas Rosenberg present this season's collection of films:
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Window Series #1| February 1-28, 2026
John Killacky’s Flux & Flow
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Window Series #2| March 1-31, 2026
Rosie Trump’s People in Cities, Home Movies & Try to Keep Up
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Window Series #3| April 1-May 1, 2026
Douglas Rosenberg's Miniatures​​​​​​​​
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts.
REEL Art Window Series #1
February 1-28, 2026
John Killacky’s Flux & Flow
FLUX: Inspired by scores, propositions, & performative actions by Fluxus-era artists with cinematography by Justin Bunnell, editing by C. Alec Kozlowski, & sound composition by Sean Clute.
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Concept & Performance: John R. Killacky
Video by: RetroMotion Creative Cinematography: Justin Bunnell
Camera Operators: Alec Kozłowski, Alexis Veil Editing: Alec Kozlowski
Sound Composition: Sean Clute
Still Photography: Jeanmarie Cross
Supported by:
Chuck Forester
James E. Robison Foundation
Thanks to:
Lawrence Connolly
Gabrielle Stebbins
The Flynn
Windswept Farm
Fiscal Sponsorship:
Vermont International Film Foundation
Inspired by scores, propositions, & performative actions by Fluxus-era artists:
Alison Knowles,
Ay-O,
Bengt af Klintberg,
Benjamin Patterson,
George Brecht
György Ligeti
Joseph Beuys
LaMonte Young
Marcel Broodthaers
Meredith Monk
Nam June Paik
Nye Ffarrabas
Yoko Ono
FLOW: An abstract corporeal mediation on sorrow and release with cinematography and editing by Art Bell.
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John R. Killacky & Art Bell/DREAMLIKE PICTURES
Core Dance presents... John R. Killacky
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John R. Killacky served two terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. Previously he was executive director of Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, program officer for arts and culture at San Francisco Foundation, executive director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and curator of performing arts for Walker Art Center. Other past positions include program officer at Pew Charitable Trusts, general manager of PepsiCo SUMMERFARE, and managing director of the Trisha Brown and Laura Dean dance companies. He received the First Bank Award Sally Ordway Irvine Award in Artistic Vision, William Dawson Award for Programming Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance USA's Ernie Award as an unsung hero, Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award for Exemplary Service to the Field of Professional Presenting, and Vermont Arts Council's Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy. Killacky has served as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant for a broad range of arts and funding organizations. He has written numerous publications on the arts and written and directed several award-winning short films and videos. His videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities. His work has been televised locally in Texas, Minnesota, and Vermont, and nationally on Free Speech TV, PBS, and Cultura24 in Holland. He curated a retrospective photography exhibition, Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts, that toured to five venues in Vermont (2019-2021). As an artist, he was in residence at Champlain College Art Gallery, co-curating FluxFest (2023) and at Fabric Workshop and Museum (2024). He co-edited the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories and published a compilation of his writing, because art: commentary, critique, & conversation.
REEL Art Window Series #2
March 1-31, 2026
Rosie Trump’s People in Cities, Home Movies & Try to Keep Up
People in Cities, 2020
“People in Cities” is a short stop motion dance film which assembles over three thousand still images. Paired with implied environments, four dancers navigate internal and external pressures. Referencing visual artist Robert Longo’s Men in Cities series, “People in Cities” is the second dance film in which director/choreographer Rosie Trump manifests the implied movement in Longo’s images.
Director & Choreographer: Rosie Trump
In Collaboration with Dancers: Jelani Best, Saleema Berry, Noelle Ruggieri, Moriah Wegman Director of Photography: Trisha French
Music: Jasmine Guffond
Home Movies, 2021
“Home Movies” consists of vintage found footage of people dancing. Living room dance parties, impromptu twirls down the street and in the kitchen, and birthday, holiday and wedding celebrations are excavated from vintage home movies. By collaging together scenes of movement, old footage is seen anew. “Home Movies” positions our contemporary normalizations of voyeurism against the privately intended moments of the past.
Director and Editor: Rosie Trump
Music: Florian Noack
Try to Keep Up, 2024
Materialized through movement and vocalization, “Try to Keep Up” captures the overwhelming feeling of ‘trying to keep up’ amidst the barrage of cacophonous and chaotic US news cycles and domestic political developments. Against a gritty industrial site, one performer sings a heart-breaking song where “try to keep up, try to keep up baby” is repeated over and over with increasing desperations. It is the physical embodiment of a cry for help when it feels like the world is crashing down on you.
Director & Choreographer: Rosie Trump
Dancers: Ozora Cheek, Keely Cobb, Melissa Ennis, Heather Rodriguez, Abby Rosen (vocalist)
Cinematographer: James Coleman II Tweaking Reality Studio
Music: Chance Utter (original composition)
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Core Dance presents... Rosie Trump
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Rosie Trump is the founder and chief curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. She is the award winning choreographer/director/editor of eleven short dance films. She is interested in the reflexive nature of the camera lens and the cinematic possibilities of digital media. Trump’s dance films have recently screened at ADFs Movies by Movers, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Souci Dance Film Festival, Extremely Short Shorts at the Aurora Picture Show, Light Moves Dance Film Festival, Frame X Frame, and Dance Film Association’s Long Legs Short Films. Currently residing in Reno, NV, Trump is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.
REEL Art Window Series #3
April 1- May 1, 2026
Douglas Rosenberg's Miniatures & The Sea
Miniatures is a series of small, gestural performances for the screen by members of the cast of my recent feature film, The Sea, filmed completely on location at the edge of the Baltic Sea in the footsteps of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman on the island of Fårö, an extraordinary place that was Bergman’s home as well as the place in which he shot some of his most important and compelling films. The project explores the nature of aging and the relationship of men of my age to the landscape, to solitude and to community with a cast of largely untrained performers who come from the areas surrounding the island of Fårö. The film explores male intimacy, camaraderie and aging via men in their third age.
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The Sea, shot in breathtaking black and white, is an exploration of male intimacy, community, ritual, and art. Shot on the island of Fårö with a cast of committed non-professionals, the 60-minute screen dance invokes Ingmar Bergman with its showcase of performance and staging against the landscape of the Baltic Sea.
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The Sea Credits:
Director: Douglas Rosenberg
DP/Cinematographer: Paul Wu
Producer: Andreas Nordblom
Performer/Choreography: David Dorfman
Performer/Choreography: Benno Voorham
Performer/Choreography: Douglas Rosenberg
Editor: Paul Wu
Edit for installation (Miniatures): Aaron Granat
Core Dance presents... Douglas Rosenberg
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Douglas Rosenberg is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work in video, performance and video installation has been shown both in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, on public television and in festivals around the world. Rosenberg has received numerous grants and awards including, an NEA Dance/Film/Video grant, (with choreographer June Watanabe), an NEA/Southeast Media Fellowship, two Zellerbach Foundation grants, a Painted Bride Art Center New Forms Grant, (co-recipient with Li Chiao-Ping), a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, an IZZIE award for his work with Ellen Bromberg and John Henry on “Singing Myself A Lullaby” and a Fellowship from The Project on Death in America for another project with Ms. Bromberg. His video dance, “My Grandfather Dances” with Anna Halprin was awarded the Directors Prize at the Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, in Berkeley. and he has been an artist in residence at The Institute for Studies in The Arts, Bates Dance Festival, and the International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His writing on screendance has been published in numerous venues and includes, Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, published by Oxford Press and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies which was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research. Recent exhibitions of his work include, Dance on Camera Festival, New York, Video Festival Riccionne Teatro Televisione, Riccione, Italy, The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona, Spain, Kunsthaus Graz in Austria and many others. His most recent feature length dance film is The Sea, a black and white film shot completely on location at the edge of the Baltic Sea in the footsteps of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in a landscape that inspired the project on the island of Fårö. The Sea explores the nature of aging and the relationship of men of the third age to the landscape, to solitude and to community, with a cast of largely untrained performers who come from the areas surrounding the island of Fårö.
 
Find outt more about Douglas Rosenberg at: https://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/
