Dance

USA 2000, 16mm, col, silent, 6:30 min

realized by:

Stan Brakhage

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synopsis: The Film-Makers' Cooperative On-Line Catalog 2004

This film begins with points of light defining a dark space out of which a female dancer (Vivienne Palmer) emerges dressed in a semi-transparent green dress. Her dance is visually echoed by close-up superimpositions of her arms, legs, and feet and then later by her distant figure seeming to mimic and/or perhaps to control her foreground, sometimes back-lit, image. She often paused thoughtfully in he dance, breaks steps, walks away etc. defining the perimeters of the dance. Finally she appears naked, midst dance, and takes heraldic stance at end.

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