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Illumenate

21 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Lighting design rarely gets billing of its own, and this film hands it over to three people who practice it: Carrie Barton and David Deveau, both working professionals, and Mercedes McCleary, a student still learning the craft. The camera follows them through rehearsals and tech runs at Ohana Theatre Co., NobleMotion Dance Co., and Sam Houston State University's theater, dance, and opera programs, watching how a plot of instruments and a stack of cues becomes mood, rhythm, and focus onstage. Footage from the dance piece "Lorelei's Whisper," shot with SHSU Dance, gives a direct before-and-after look at what a lighting rig adds to movement that would otherwise read flat. Electricians Jorge Jimenez, Mitchell Cronin, Jordan Bigler, and Connor Toups appear working the boards and rigging, making clear how much of the job is physical labor before it becomes art. The film stays close to process throughout: hanging fixtures, focusing beams, calling cues, and the trial-and-error conversations between designers and directors that decide what an audience actually sees.