Piano Dance [Original]
Identifier
F.2025-04-0002a
Date Of Production
1981
Abstract
"Piano Dance shows the viewer a shadowy piano accompanied by the sound of piano music. The piano is then seen to be a toy, the headdress of a woman with hollow eyes and a pasty face who moves like a marionette in a weird dance. She is dressed as if she were a cabaret performer in black tie and tails and white gloves. The images whirl and the piano is both large and small as the camera sees it in varying scale. The protagonist does not appear to move of her own volition but by the will of another. Her dance fades, not because it is over but because we are no longer privileged to see it. One feels that it continues eternally." — Barbara Sharres, "Trance Occurrences," Chicago Reader, January 15 1982.
Format
8mm
Extent
27 feet
Color
B&W
Sound
Silent
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Notes
The corresponding audio for this film (featuring a recording of "Cinderella Suite, Op. 95, No. 2: Gavotte" by Sviatoslav Richter) can be found on a separate cassette tape in the collection.
Element
Reversal Positives
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Collections
Main Credits
Bruns, Norm (is filmmaker)
Participants And Performers
Cole, Deborah (is performer)
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