Dance for Camera 2

Streaming video - 2007

From a Butoh-inspired portrait of a demented aristocrat, to a sensual bedroom metamorphosis, to an intimate moment interrupted by a burst water pipe, this latest collection of award-winning dance films from around the world will "bewitch, bedazzle and bewilder." (Deirdre Towers, Dance on Camera Festival Director) For over five decades now international dancers and filmmakers have been creating these short experimental films, which generally have only been seen in festivals and on foreign television broadcasts. Dance for Camera 2 presents seven films that are among the most outstanding examples of a collaborative cinematic style that merges the dynamics of both dance and film. The art of dance film has been called, "Witty and ...hilarious! Where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic!" (John Rockwell, New York Times) Critics say, "In short, everything the camera can do to and for dance: movement cut, spliced, dissolved, flattened, montaged and projected larger than life." (Village Voice) Dance For Camera 2 includes more