Winter Studies
Concept, Movement, Camera, and Editing by Nadia Oussenko
Music Composition by Scott Rubin
●Flatlands Dance Film Festival, University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign: 2024
●Elevate Chicago Dance, Chicago Cultural Center: 2022
Winter Studies explores feelings of isolation as a result of combined post-pandemic/winter months in Chicago. Set in a vacant apartment on the lake in winter, the combination of movement, music, and minimal lighting creates an eerie atmosphere that is wound with tension and subsequent release.
On Following Chapter 1: The Tango
Directed and Edited by Nadia Oussenko
Director of Photography Daniel Kullman
Danced by Nadia Oussenko and Nicole Gifford
Music by Carlos Gardel sung by Sarah Ponder
● Elevate Chicago Dance, Chicago Cultural Center: 2018
● High Concept Lab Open House, Hairpin Arts Center:
Chicago 2017
Walking Grounds
Directed and Edited by Nadia Oussenko
Cinematography by Devon Catucci and Nadia Oussenko
Movement by Monica Cristiano
Produced by Experimental Film Virginia
● Topanga Film Festival: Los Angeles 2013
●ADF Dancing for the Camera-International Festival of Film and Video Dance: Durham, NC 2013
● Harbor for the Arts Festival: Cape Charles, VA 2013
A woman journeys to Virginia’s Eastern Shoreline while processing the ending of a relationship and the memories that tie her to it.
Dance of the Queer Tide Faeries
Directed and Edited by Nadia Oussenko
Cinematography by Daniel Kullman
Performance, Painting, and Movement by Rachel Damon, Christopher Knowlton, and Nadia Oussenko
Music by Bob Garret
● Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, The Hideout: Chicago 2013
● Topanga Film Festival: Los Angeles 2012
● Dances Made to Order (online at dancesmadetoorder.com), May Chicago Edition: 2012
Nothing to See/Hear
Directed and Edited by Nadia Oussenko
Cinematography by Daniel Kullman
Danced by Rachel Damon, Julia Rae Antonick
Music by the books
● Dance on Camera Festival: New York, 2013
● Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: 2012
● Screen Dances: Films by Nadia Oussenko: Chicago Filmmakers, 2011
● Breakout!: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012
Nothing to See/Hear is a love story about two women and their unraveling relationship. As the hostile couple poses in a portrait studio, each person reflects on the intimacy that once was.