Screening: "Dance Number 1"
The Jumping Frames festival in Hong Kong invites Emmanuel Lefrant, director of Light Cone, to present a selection of films exploring the relationship between dance and experimental cinema.
According to research by film historian Richard Abel, half of the films produced by Gaumont between 1900 and 1902 were dance films: the Lumière brothers' cameramen were fascinated by Tyrolean, Javanese, Egyptian, and other types of dance. The same appetite for the moving body spread to America, where dance occupied a special place in the cinematic landscape throughout the century.
The links between dance and traditional cinema are well established, and the same is true of experimental cinema, which were quickly embraced by its avant-garde movements. The program offers a journey through the 20th century (from 1900 to 1970), shedding light on this special connection between two kinetic art forms. Almost exclusively in black and white (with the exception of the explosion of color taking place in the last film, made in 2006), in the second part we will have the opportunity to see the works in their original format, in 16mm.
Among the films in the program "Carte Blanche to Light Cone" is Dance Number 1 by CSRC collections donor Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
For the full program, visit: https://lightcone.org/en/news-934-carte-blanche-light-cone-a-jumping-fra...
Cosponsored by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center