Six dance films

Dance films with ghosts, witches, skeletons, hands, walls, variations and themes.

Program

Thèmes et variations
Regi: Germaine Dulac
1928
35mm
11 minutter

Harmony of lines. Harmony of light. Lines, surfaces, volumes evolving directly, allowing an elevation towards the abstract, thus giving more space to sensations and to dreams: integral cinema.

Hande
Regi: Miklos Bandy + Stella Simon
1926-1928
35mm
13 minutter

With the use of human hands as dancing characters, Simon transforms a simple melodramatic love story into an avant-garde feminist short film.

Witches Cradle
Regi: Maya Deren
1944
16mm
12’30 minutter 

An unfinished Maya Deren film made during a surrealist «Art of this Century» exhibit. It was assembled long after her death, featuring the hands of Pajorita Matta and Marcel Duchamp

9 Variations On A Dance Theme
Regi: Hilary Harris
1966-1967
16mm
13 minutter

Harris shot Bettie de Jong during twenty-five filming sessions over the course of a year, and then edited the sequences together as a montage, resulting in nine different variations.

The Trisha Brown Company At The Whitney Museum 1971 – The Rehearsal
Regi: Walter Gutman
1971
16mm to digital
9 minutter

Trisha Brown’s gravity-defying dance along the vertical gallery walls of The Whitney is accompanied here for the first time with the long-lost audio recording discovered among Brown’s possessions in 2017.

Spiral
Regi: Emily Breer
1987
16mm
12 minutter

Out of time, fuzzy and without logic, skeletons dance with raw meat spinning.