Fugitive l(i)ght
Inspired by American dance pioneer Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, a concoction of visual patterns created by the vaudeville skirt dance performed under incandescent electric lights, Pruska-Oldenhof reworked Fuller’s original dance footage, drawing the viewer’s gaze into a maze of skirt folds of coloured patterns that constantly move, change and shift.
Also in this combined programme
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Moment Musical
Light photogram film is an accurate remake of the one made by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson that was lost in World War II.
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Dockum Mobilcolour performance at the Guggenheim museum
Unique registration from 1952 of a performance by Charles Dockum with his light organ, the Mobilcolor.
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Blue Light
A widescreen projection of a meditative field of blue grain, created with a fine mist of paint.
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Le petit mort
Semi-abstract video with crackling blaze of light that can be both gruesome and beautiful.
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Flicker
Eyes open and keep looking into the blinding source of light that reduces figures and objects in this film to narrow silhouettes. All there is ligh
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Radar
Beams of light cutting through space, edited from a large number of feature films, sporadically lighting the way to nowhere.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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