Follow the tightly-knit community on their symbolic journey into the woods. They carry only the experiences, memories, and dreams that matter to them.
Traveling Light, a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, reveals the language of movement as a profound form of communication. The film explores human connections and community as well as our inevitable link to nature.
The film has a version with an audio description.
Alexis Karl is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker creating films and cinematic installations for the U.S. State Department, Public film projections on the Manhattan Bridge with Leo Kuelbs Collection, and gallery installations of her hand-constructed, large scale film sets.
Karl teaches cinematography and film directing for the U.S. State Department in Thailand and Gaza, Palestine, and is a professor of installation and multidisciplinary art and cinematic installation at Pratt Institute in New York City. She is a regular lecturer for the U.S. embassy, The Metropolitan Museum, and National Arts Club on the relevance of film, fashion and fine arts on modern and historical artistic culture
Her films and live musical performances have been featured in festivals and exhibitions around the world, most notably the Whitney Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Stephen Romano Gallery, The Museum of Moving Image with Kaufman Center and The Morbid Anatomy Museum.
Karl’s films have won acclaim at festivals internationally and nationally. Karls’ film and multidisciplinary work have been featured in New York Times: Women in The World, NY Post, Elysian Magazine, White Hot Magazine, Gothic Beauty Magazine, Heathen Harvest, Honeysuckle Magazine, London Financial Times, Atlas Obscura, Bustle Magazine; with TV and Radio spots on Salford City Radio UK, WMBR Bat’s In The Belfry Radio Boston, CNN and The View.
