The Greater The Weight (2008)

Distribution/sales:Mouvement Perpétuel Or Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre Fax orders to: 416.588.7956. Mail orders to: Educational Sales, CFMDC 401 Richmond St. W. Suite 119 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

Distribution/sales:

Mouvement Perpétuel Or Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Fax orders to: 416.588.7956.
Mail orders to:
Educational Sales, CFMDC 401 Richmond St. W. Suite 119 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

In The Greater The Weight, dancer and choreographer Dana Michel assembles extremely physical movement—a remnant from her previous training in track and touch football — with mathematical precision and poetic improvisation. The result is an exploration of the body as an instrument in a symphony of rupture and flow. A reflection on the moment when one stumbles, whether by accident or on purpose. Sometimes one can recover quickly and get up again… sometimes it’s not that easy.

Directed & Produced by: Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer
Choreographer/Dancer: Dana Michel
Director of Photography: Bill Kerrigan
Composer: Ghislain Poirier
Editor: Dexter X
Broadcaster: Bravo!/CTV
Produced with the support of: the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Bravo!FACT

Canada/2008/HD/colour/5:20 min.
Available on DVD, BTC SP, Digital BTC, HD

 
 
 
 

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… pressure-cooked intensity…

/ Chirstinn Whyte, filmint., 2009 /

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Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer’s rigourously claustrophobic framing in The Greater The Weight (2008)… captured the fiercely embodied performative intensity of a lone female, flamenco-gowned within the confines of a boxing ring.

/ Christinn Whyte, Realtime 85, 2008 /

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Dana Michel’s choreography incorporates the swinging arms, thrusting torso, and stamping feet of West African dance steps, extracted from their traditional framework and incorporated in a contemporary rhythmic structure.

/ Kuumba Festival, Toronto, 2011 /