Run time: 21:42
STILL POINT: Meditations on Silence, Solitude, and Social Sustainability (script by Elyse Lamm Pineau)
Artist's statement by videographer Jason Hedrick on the collaboration (by Jason Hedrick)
Still Spellbound: A Critical Performative Response to 'STILL POINT' (by Bryant Keith Alexander)
» Bryant Keith Alexander, PhD, is Professor and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean, School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He serves as Affiliate Faculty of the Educational Leadership for Social Justice, Doctoral Program at LMU's School of Education, and Affiliate/Adjunct Faculty in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Monash University, Melbourne Australia. He is author, co-author or co-editor of seven books: Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity (Erlbaum); Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity (Alta Mira); The Performative Sustainability of Race: Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity (Peter Lang); Routledge Handbook of Communication and Gender (Routledge); Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism (Brill|Sense); Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives (Routledge); and Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet (Routledge).
» Jason Hedrick is a playwright, theatre director, and film obsessive who is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the intersection of film and performance studies in the department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He directed the Dr. Jerry Weston Mathis Theatre at Sauk Valley College in Dixon, IL between 2001 and 2011. He has produced work with The Greylight Theater Collective, the Marion Kleinau Theater of Performance Studies at SIUC, and the Christian H. Moe Lab Theatre at SIUC. His plays include Vanya on the Plains, 4 FILMS, The Final Chapter of Nic Carter: The Price, Kurt Vonnegut's The Euphio Question, and The Big Jason Hedrick's Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Show: The Play That Never Was. In 2018, Vanya on the Plains was published in Text and Performance Quarterly and received a "World Premiere" in September at the Artistic Home in Chicago. He is currently working on a play about cult deprogramming called Sing Sing Sing.
» Elyse Lamm Pineau is an Emeritus professor of Communication/Performance Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where her work focused on women's lived and literary narratives, all aspects of stage production, and critically-engaged, arts-based pedagogies. Her research has appeared in American Educational Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, as well as (in translation) for education journals in Brazil and Taiwan. Elyse was given the Leslie Irene Coger award for Distinguished Performance scholarship, as well multiple awards for outstanding teaching. The privilege of academic retirement has opened up new territories for community engagement, new demographics for collaboration, and new forms of artistic and political expression. This collaboration with videographer, Jason Hedrick, is one such exploration.
