Nine Easy Dances
dc.contributor.advisor | Veninger, Ingrid | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosenthal, Nora Overhill | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-08T14:48:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-08T14:48:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-12-08T14:48:14Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Film And Video | |
dc.degree.level | Master's | |
dc.degree.name | MFA - Master of Fine Arts | |
dc.description.abstract | “Nine Easy Dances” is a 19-minute docufictional film about a filmmaker’s attempt to stage an elaborate dance film with her parents. However, when her parents fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, she hires professional dancers to play them. A collaborative dance unfolds within her family home, as captured through behind-the-scenes and 16mm footage, all of which becomes gradually overshadowed by her mother’s metastasizing cancer. The hybrid film that emerges is a loving tribute to one family’s way of facing mortality and a darkly funny meditation on that impossible urge to hold onto the past; on what family archives can come to mean on the eve of loss. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41772 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Film studies | |
dc.subject | Dance | |
dc.subject | Performing arts | |
dc.subject.keywords | Film | |
dc.subject.keywords | Documentary | |
dc.subject.keywords | Docufiction | |
dc.subject.keywords | Family | |
dc.subject.keywords | Hybrid film | |
dc.subject.keywords | Hybrid documentary | |
dc.subject.keywords | Cancer | |
dc.subject.keywords | Dance | |
dc.subject.keywords | Contemporary dance | |
dc.title | Nine Easy Dances | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |