Film Categories: dance

  • Booty Dance

    An animation that seeks to deduce how lesbians and gay men can exist in harmony on the dance floor.

  • Chronic

    “Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.

  • Choice Chance Women Dance

    A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.

  • Brand New Triathlon, The

    Busy. Got to keep busy. Busy is good, not busy is bad. So we play at a new triathlon: bowling, cricket and tai chi – a veritable ironman or woman’s dream.

  • Rude Roll

    How-to-dance-ska in one easy lesson or three. Best Animation, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2003

  • Slippage

    Linda Giles’ installation at Xchanges Gallery in 1998 serves as a set as Susy dances an impromptu piece of choreography. Shot on Hi-8. Black hands of the master printer dare not soil the bride’s wardrobe.

  • Walk

    A dance video exploring body movement as visual music and conduction. Made in collaboration with the Scottish dancer Vanessa Smith Influenced by the music of John Cage and Butch Morris and the choreography of Rudolf Laban.

  • nine + 20

    An extremely simple portrait of one of the most humble and deeply spirited people I’ve ever known. Trained in Ireland as a welder, Michael Dolan preferred dancing so he dropped the torch, put on a black suit and began performing internationally with LaLaLa Human Steps. He is now a member of the Volksopera in Vienna.

  • Urban Creatures

    In a city park, two silver creatures dance the passion and sorrow of the urban landscape.

  • Chrysalis

    Made in collaboration with Alwin Nikolais. Images of dancers in the Nikolais Dance Theatre Company are cinematically choreographed using a wide variety of film techniques from slow motion to pixillation. In the course of the film they pass through a series of transformations.