Amnesis # 2

I love the extra-net. I do. I just posted my latest post about a dance film I found and liked. The director found my blog post and told me that a newer version had been posted at vimeo.: shweeeet. I get to see it and the internet gets extra internetty.

(Again, if you want to watch this flick, you might need to pause my playlist that lives in just to the right.)

Dance on screen thrills me. I adore it. It's little known, appreciated and loved~ I heart all 3.
I hope you enjoy this too. Some dance films get all dancey-shmancy on my arse, which is ok yet testing. This flick is easy: a little bit of clear narrative, little bit of abstract notion, very pretty, teenie bit confronting, fractionally uncomfortable, beautiful, dancey not shmancy. I also like that the dancer smiles and that his character taught me a little something about men that I hadn't known before. I want to know who wrote it, if written? I love that dance film may or may not take a traditional film process. I was left with questions that don't have answers and I'm happy for my imagination to fill in the gaps that the film made. Nice.

From Simon Ellis, Director / Choreographer: "All our will, our wishes, our hope cannot stop this."

"Anamnesis visits the volatility of memory within the mind of an elderly woman. It considers aging and loss, and the ways in which dancing or movement is remembered and forgotten. How is it that humans might carry relationships through time?"

In the film, the artists—Cormac Lally (videography), David Corbet (sound), Bagryana Popov (dramaturgy) and Simon Ellis (direction/choreography)—seek to represent the biographical confusion and uncertainty of the woman (performed by Liz Jones) as the arc of the film becomes increasingly lucid.

Anamnesis from dc on Vimeo.

Thanks Simon!