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Dancing in the Dark 2022
Filmstill FKA twigs: How’s That
FKA twigs: How’s That
Jesse Kanda
A naked body: Its skin envelope spreads and longs to be touched. The music asks what lust feels like and is answered by enchanting computer-generated images.
Filmstill FKA twigs: How’s That

FKA twigs: How’s That

FKA twigs: How’s That
Jesse Kanda
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
UK
2013
4 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A naked body liquifies and becomes weightless. What’s left is its skin envelope which expands endlessly, longing for the tiniest touch. The increasingly shapeless figure vibrates in colours, fragments flashing, until the video track fails. The sensual piece by FKA twigs asks in slow motion what lust feels like. Jesse Kanda answers with enchanting computer-generated images.

André Eckardt

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Director
Jesse Kanda
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Filmstill Floralia II
Floralia II
Sabrina Ratté
From the pictorial concept of the floral still life to a 3D archive for extinct plants: Floral sculptures add a new dimension to representation. But life? Stays still.
Filmstill Floralia II

Floralia II

Floralia II
Sabrina Ratté
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Experimental Film
Canada
2021
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Ratté develops the pictorial concept of the floral still life into a new kind of illusionary space. The fragmented floral sculptures, created by 3D scans, design a speculative future in which extinct plants are preserved in a weightless archive. The representation gains a dimension but does not become more than a surface mould with no informative value about the living core.

Robert Seidel

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Director
Sabrina Ratté
Producer
Sabrina Ratté
Sound Design
Andrea-Jane Cornell
Score
Sabrina Ratté
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Filmstill Free Radicals
Free Radicals
Len Lye
Flashes of dots, squiggles and lines scratched on the black leader create a space and an energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.
Filmstill Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Free Radicals
Len Lye
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
New Zealand
1979
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Len Lye’s uncompromising and poetic reduction of movement to its absolute essence. Flashing dots, squiggles and lines scratched directly on the black leader, sometimes as compressed or stretched zigzags, sometimes as straight or feathered verticals. They start running, then dancing, creating in the dark void a space and energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.

André Eckardt

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Director
Len Lye