Black Dancer [Films in Progress]

Harry, a professional dancer and friend of Lassnig’s, performs for the camera. a ghostly group of female ballet dancers performing on a stage looms in a second exposure beneath the image of Harry, intensifying the motion on screen through a choreography of interplaying film exposures. Lassnig uses this overlay to examine the way the different dancing bodies communicate with one another through the editorial interventions of her camera. Lassnig juxtaposes the exaggerated male form with many female dancing forms, examining their suggestive dynamics. Through these layered choreographies, she tests the limits of her camera alongside those of the human...