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'Against The Skin' by Pablo Dunkerly

Rob Ulitski - 12th Feb 2026

Pablo Dunkerly directs an atmospheric short dance film, set to Colle's track Winter Garden, bringing the extraordinary into an everyday space.

With dancer Scarlet Finnan moving lithely through an empty house, then attaching to a pole in the house, then joined by another dancer, Against The Skin unravels in a sensual fever dream of strange perspectives and striking movement.

It's an intriguing piece - shot on Kodak 16mm 500T/7219 and TriX Black & White Reversal - featuring DoP Sam E. H. Hooper's sharp eye for composition and lighting and eventually embracing surrealism as the dancers merge in a blur on the pole. 

Dunkerly says: "Straining with the contours of enclosure, identity dissolves into motion, pressing against the walls, against the self, against the skin." 

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Rob Ulitski - 12th Feb 2026

Tags

  • Choreography
  • New Director
  • Performance
  • Dance
  • Surreal
  • Fever Dream
  • Strange
  • Perspective

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Pablo Dunkerly
Producer
Pablo Dunkerly

Camera

Director of Photography
Sam E. H. Hooper
1st AC
Kieran Poynter

Choreography

Movement Director
Benjamin Jonsson

Editorial

Editor
Sander Houtkruijer

Grading

Colourist
John O'Riordan
Colour grade company
Pundersons Gardens

Misc

Film Stock, Film Lab
Camera Rental Company
One Stop Films

Rob Ulitski - 12th Feb 2026

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