WARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders.
Writes Mark McElhatten: "The cast is in flux — the animate and the inanimate get double billed with that dynamic duo — Push and Pull. If matter has consciousness and has renounced movement as Henri Bergson suggests, in order to conserve energy, then here we have ...
First composed and performed in 1965, Variations V is a true testament to 1960's experiments with "intermedia"—a coexistence and cutting across of artistic genres that profoundly informed Cunningham's choreographic practice. Video is materially integrated into the performance, with projections by Stan VanDerBeek and overlaid TV distortions by Nam June Paik enveloping the dancer...
1978, Babette Mangolte made a film of famed choreographer Trisha Brown dancing a hyperkinetic solo called Water Motor. The first portion was filmed in "real time," at 24 frames per second, and the second at half-speed, or 48 frames per second. In the second take, Brown's movements appear elongated in time, the slowed frame rate making visible what was previously inaccessible to...
Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds
2001年11月、映画『日本心中』(監督大浦信行)の撮影に呼応して、舞踏家大野一雄が舞った。
鎌倉、旧大佛次郎邸。朝日差し込む渡り廊下で、落ち葉舞い散る庭先で、夕闇迫る床の間で…
悲しみとともに日本を舞い踏む。大野一雄95斎、渾身の舞い。
監督撮影:大浦信行/制作:国立工房
2006年/本編25分12秒/カラー/日本
※このDVDは、通常のぶとう記録とは異なり。映像による舞踏表現を最大限追求しているため。画面が暗めになっております。ご了承下さい。
Released under the title 235 000 000 Faces, this remarkable film came out in 1967, the year that marked the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union. The number 235 million refers to the 1966 population of the USSR, then the largest country in the world. The film’s unseen ambition was to create a collective portrait of all the citizens of ...
Intro from CPH : DOX homepage
The 100 year old film images sparkle and crackle with an expressive fury, which almost looks like a reaction to what they depict. This year, it is 100 year since the First World War - the first 'modern' war, and the first to be documented in moving images - forever destroyed any notion of the (Western) world's continued progress under the banner of...