American choreographer and dancer JaQuel Knight has directed and created a new dance film, Biters.
Produced by Knight Haus Studios and Metal & Water, Biters is a hypnotic early-2000s-style music video that unites the spirit of the Black American South with the supernatural pulse of Halloween.
The film follows a boy drawn from his grandmother’s stories into a surreal nightmare, where he encounters dancers who personify the darker forces of the world – the very evils his grandmother warned of. In this shadow realm, movement is both haunting and magnetic.
Biters channels JaQuel Knight’s three decades of reshaping pop culture into a spell of rhythm and resistance – part music video, part Southern ghost story.
Credits:
Directed, Choreographed & Musical Directed by JaQuel Knight
Produced by Knight Haus Studios and Metal & Water
Director of Photography: Anthony Kimata
Camera Operator: Anthony Kimata & JaQuel Knight
Editor: Carlos Dupouy
Styling: Zerina Akers
Sound Design: Akira Woodgrain & Javad Day
Sound Edit: Akira Woodgrain & Javad Day
Sound Mixing: Akil Anderson
Dancers: Ché Barrett-Davis, Idaliz Cristian, Musa & Munir Omar, Dominique Loude, Ashley Seldon-Smith, Caho Kitaori, Amarachi Iromaka, Nataly Santiago, Chartaja Callum, James Dhaiti, Fulani Bahati, Shellee Samuels, Richard “Swagg” Curtis IV, Alekz Samone, Kebahb Glanville, amanda may, Joya Jackson, Pearl Leary, Kalvin trevonte, Nia Spencer, Natalie Bebko, Elysandra Quiñones, Rebbi Rosie, Josh Price.
Actors: Marlynne Cooley & Isaiah Jackson
Knight Haus Studios’ Team: JaQuel Knight, Brooklyn Baker, Elizabeth Yik, Rebbi Rosie, Carlos Dupouy, Royston Gooden.
With special thanks to: Archie Smith, Reo and Tanya Kim of TK STUDIOS INC, Don & Elias of Stabler & Associates Inc.
