Chromatic Revelry, 2011
Super 8 film
A series of 10 short films, Chromatic Revelry connects the ordered harmonic scale of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with the chaos of rave culture. Shot on Super 8 film in clubs and at raves in the nineteen nineties, the piece suggests a timelessness to parties, celebration and dance.
Music: J.S. Bach
Selections from the Well Tempered Clavier + the Goldberg Variations
A synthesis of my experimental dancefilm work with traditional documentary filmmaking, the piece reflects a personal journey, revealing my fascination with street and club movement (and featuring some of my own dancing). Yet by choosing to edit the documentary footage to the preludes and fugues of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations, the films transcend regular 90s rave culture. The chaos is married to the musical chromatic scale, and stitches it to my older, classical dance training and aesthetic. With its archival Super 8 footage and formal Baroque music, the film becomes trans-historical, lost in time, and commenting on the nature of revelry, celebration and the human form rather than a particular moment in history.
15 minutes long
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