Synopsis
Between Here and Deserve is an experimental dance film made with Portland dancer and choreographer Honey Marie in a single frozen night, on streets closed to everyone but her. Deserve is not a feeling here but a destination: the world she was promised, still out of reach. It is a distance queer people know by heart, the space between the life you were handed and the one you were owed. Alone in the cold and dark, Honey dances that crossing, carrying grief and rage across the ice. The film refuses resolution. It is not about getting there. It is about the crossing.
Director's Statement
This film began as a response to a frozen place. We shot in one night, on closed streets, in deep cold, and those conditions became a kind of container. Inside that container, everything got clearer.
The cold shaped the movement in ways we couldn't have planned, and I wanted the camera to respond to what the place gave us rather than impose something on it. The film doesn't build to a resolution. It holds what happened inside that night, and then it lets go.