keeping time

A Chapman University Thesis Film - 2026

Cast:

Kayden Tokarski as EMERSYN

Elizabeth Burke as ADULT EMERSYN

Zack Everheart as BRANDON

Brooklyn Robinson as Violet

Mary Poiley as SLOANE

Through movement and memory, a tap dancer expresses the unspoken weight of grief, each step carrying the rhythms of her relationship with her father.

writer/director: skyler poiley

producer: naomi puente

director of photography: leger taylor

casting director: paloma winter

casting assistant: shay rudolph

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