Topic II

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In this "dance film" Pascal Baes and his performers dancing themself and released from their limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience, creating an optical illusion of movement with simultaneously unmoving bodies.
It’s as if the dancers are floating through the streets and alleys of Prague in a dream, meanwhile simultaneously assuming various poses. Here Baes generates a "reanimation" of the body, a choreography of lifeless puppets, controlled by the camera.
Making use of the stop-motion technique, his idiom (La Pose Longue), balances on the dividing line between synthetic grace and analytic .
camera, editing and production : Pascal Baes
sound : Jean-Jacques Palix
performers : Pascal Baes, Sara Denizot, Laurence Rondoni and Jérôme Bel
music and songs : (composer, songwriter and singer) : Philippe-Jean Touscos
diffusions La Vidéothèque Nomade
- La nocturne - 10 Septembre 2021
- Atelier Court-Bouillon 1.7 - 7 Décembre 2020
- Court-Bouillon #2.23 - 1er Octobre 2019