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‘Danse Macabre’: The twitch of death


 
The multiple award-winning 2008 short film Danse Macabre is the work of visual effects director Pedro Pires and the celebrated Canadian theatrical artist Robert Lepage. In it, a death sets the stage for a dark choreography:

For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet.

Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life?

The original idea and the choreography are by AnneBruce Falconer. Pedro Pires and Robert Lepage have collaborated on a new feature length film, Triptyque, based on Lepage’s ambitious theatrical project Lipsynch.

Nothing particularly lurid here, still you might not want to watch this where you work…
 

 
Thank you, Christian Rivera!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.08.2013
03:15 pm
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