Breakaway

USA 1966, 16mm, b&w, sound, 5:00 min

realized by:

Bruce Conner

keywords:

dance

cast&crew:

music:

Ed Cobb

appearance:

Antonia Christina Basilotta

available copies:

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

16mm, 24fps, sound optical track

available for rent

• Available for rental in group packages only. Ask for further information

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

"The camera captures her movements in gestural, expressive
lightsmears. Intercut rhythmically with strophes of black leader, she
gyrates in graceful, stroboscopic accelerations. Conners's
editing is consummate as he alternates angles of her figure from
different shots into a kinesthetic, flowing continuity.

"Basically a two-and-a-half minute film, this 'module' of image
and sound is then reversed. Everything goes 'backwards' to the
'original' beginning. The sound track with Basilotta singing the
title song is run in reverse as an aural analogue to the visual
abstraction of photography. It resembles a paradigm for those
high school physics demonstrations of gravitation where we saw a
ball, once thrown straight up into the air, loyally retrace its
trajectory to Earth." --Anthony Reveaux

A dance film viewed twice (once forward, once backward) in five
minutes. The film was shot at single frame exposures as well as
8, 16, 24 and 36 frames per second.

cinovid / oVid / Werkleitz Gesellschaft and the authors © 1996-2010