May 12th DTKs
SIX DANCE FILMS
Dance films with ghosts, witches, skeletons, hands, walls, variations and themes.
THÈMES ET VARIATIONS Germaine Dulac ( 1928 / 35mm /11’ 00) 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 Miklos Bandy + Stella Simon (1926-1928 / 35mm / 13′)
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 Maya Deren (1944 / 16mm / b&w /12′ 30)
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 Hilary Harris (1966-1967 / 16mm / 13’)
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 Walter Gutman (1971 / 16mm to digital/ / 9′ 00)
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 Emily Breer (1987 16mm / 12′ 00)
Out of time, fuzzy and without logic, skeletons dance with raw meat spinning.
Greg Pope. 