Rainer Variations
Charles Atlas
Documentary : 42' / Art & Artists, Performance, Avantgarde, Bodies, Dance

Employing archival film clips and new video, Atlas' self-described "video montage" is a documentary sous-rature. In his portrayal of filmmaker/choreographer Yvonne Rainer, Atlas undermines genre conventions to pose some of the same questions that have long concerned her. While an extended interview with Rainer runs throughout the piece, Atlas' editing takes up the four "performers" (Rainer herself among them) who enact and re-enact the interview, shuffling and superimposing image and voice tracks to yield a video palimpsest of theatricality and ambiguity.

 

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 27 | 18h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala Luís de Pina Buy Tickets
Retrospective
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/ Details

Year: 2002

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Gregg Bordowitz, Kathleen Chalfont, Richard Move, Yvonne Rainer

/ Direction

Charles Atlas

USA


Born in 1949 In St. Louis, USA, Charles Atlas is one of the premier interpreters of dance, theater, and performance on video. Working in film, video, installation, theater, and performance for over four decades. A pioneer in the development of media-dance, he has expanded this genre into an original new form, inventive pastiches of narrative and fictional modes with performance documentary. Atlas lives and works in New York.

 

Photo: Lori E Seid


Filmography

Selection:

 

1973 – Walkaround Time (Documentary)
1976 – Squaregame Video (Video-Dance)
1978 – Fractions I (Video-Dance)
1982 – Channels/Inserts (Video-Dance)
1983/84 – Parafango (Experimental)
1985/86 – Hail the New Puritan (Docu-fiction)
1987 – Ex-Romance (Video-Dance)
1989 – Because We Must (Experimental)
1989 – Put Blood in the Music (Documentary)
1994 – SUPERHONEY (Experimental)   
2000 – Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (Documentary)
2001 – The Legend of Leigh Bowery (Documentary)
2002 – Rainer Variations (Documentary)  
2022 – Turning (Documentary)

 

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