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"Choros intéresse donc dans sa proposition − au-delà de ﬁlmer la danse − de 'ﬁlmer la musique' elle-même, d'associer à tel corps, objet ou geste telle sonorité, tel instrument."



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"Pulsating, hypnotic, and flat out lovely to watch." Colossal





"Spellbinding and uplifting... a reminder that dance, music, and indeed, cinema can sometimes transcend words altogether."



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"Like 'Pas de Deux' in its time, 'Choros' contributes to cinematic innovation and marks a new milestone. This spellbinding narrative and visual experience paves the way for further attempts to bring life to the body on-screen."



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"Choros pursues the proposition − beyond filming the dance − of filming the music itself, through the transformation of the body, object or gesture into sound, into instrument."



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BOOOOOOOM! / Fubiz / The Curious Brain / Colossal ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE "Choros" is an experimental film steeped in tradition, modernizing a visual echo technique developed for scientific study in the 1880s.



In the late nineteenth century, a photographic technique called "chronophotography" began to develop, whereby multiple photographs would be taken in rapid succession to study the movement of a given subject. Eadweard Muybridge famously filmed a horse in motion in 1878, providing the world with its first taste of motion pictures when the images were displayed on a spinning zoetrope. Several years later, the French physicist Etienne-Jules Marey developed a stunning variation of this technique when he captured multiple poses of a subject over time onto a single frame of film, rendering a kind of visual echo. The nature of this process limited the subject matter to that which could be photographed in a black studio using stark lighting, to prevent overexposure of the background when multiple images are layered over one another.



In 1968, just six years before Steve Reich began composing "Music for 18 Musicians," Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren adapted Marey's layering technique to actual motion pictures, in a groundbreaking film entitled "Pas de Deux." The additive nature of multiple exposures in chemically processed photography, however, likewise limited McLaren to the confines of a black box studio with high-contrast side lighting.



"Choros" revisits these technical innovations and attempts to contribute original innovations of its own. Using recent advancements in digital compositing, the technique developed for "Choros" introduces color, frees the film from the confines of a black studio, and allows the dancer to linger in one position without risk of overexposure, resulting in a variation of this historical technique that allows a degree of subtlety heretofore prohibited by technical limitations.



AWARDS Coup de Coeur, Silhouette Film Festival / France

Second Prize, Independent Animation, ASIFA-SF Festival / USA SCREENINGS 2014



Filmquest / USA

Choreoscope / Spain

Art Cluster / Spain

Nave Gallery / USA

Les rendez vous du Hublot / France

2013



Museum of Contemporary Art / Taiwan

Short & Sweet / South Africa

Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies / Canada

Dance on Camera Festival / USA

Strange Beauty Film Festival / USA

Cinedans / The Netherlands

Martha's Vineyard Film Festival / USA

Vertical Floor Film Festival / Sweden

Conclave / UK

Dance@30FPS / USA

TELUS Spark Science Center / Canada

Northwest Animation Festival / USA

Athens Video Art Festival / Greece

Uppsala International Sacred Music Film Festival / Sweden

International Melzo File Festival / Italy

Aberystwyth Arts Centre / Wales

Shed Sessions / UK

ASIFA-SF Spring Festival / USA

Movies by Movers / USA



2012 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival / France / World Premiere

Clermont-Ferrand Highlights at Balagan / USA

Clermont-Ferrand Highlights at 92Y Tribeca / USA

Clermont-Ferrand Highlights at Muscate / Oman

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston / USA

Mecal International Short Film Festival / Spain

Tabakalera / Spain

Tiburon International Film Festival / USA

Athens International Film Festival / USA

Maryland Film Festival / USA

Experimental Film Festival Portland / USA

Rooftop Films / USA

Woods Hole Film Festival / USA

Guanajuato International Film Festival / Mexico

Topanga Film Festival / USA

ADF Screendance / USA

Le Cabaret Vert / France

One Reel Film Festival / USA

Sidewalk Film Festival / USA

Festival a Nous de Voir / France

Ottawa International Animation Festival / Canada

Beijing New Youth Film Festival / China

Silhouette Film Festival / France / Winner, Coup de Coeur Prix

Lille International Short Film Festival / France

INVIDEO / Italy

Australian Cinematheque / Australia

Short Shorts Film Festival / Mexico

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival / USA

Ravenswood International Film Festival / USA

Cucalorus Film Festival / USA

Ozu Film Festival / Italy

Court C'est Court! / France

Next Dance Cinema / USA

Centre National de la Danse / France

