Technical
Info
16mm,
17:00, color, optical
Credits
Producer,
Director Editor:
Bridget
A. Murnane
Cinematographer:
Gary Tieche
Choreographers:
Louise Burns,
Bella Lewitzky, Susan Rose, Fred Strickler
Dancers:
Louise Burns,
Iris Pell, Susan Rose, Fred Strickler
Music:
Benjamin
Britten, Megan Roberts
Art
Directors:
John DiMinico,
Celia Mercer
Synopsis
Joined
by the elements of time and space, Cine Dance allows the filmmaker/choreographer
to reach beyond the the proscenium setting. The film opens
with a sequence choreographed and performed by Fred Strickler,
a tribute to Fred Astaire, and his insistence that the camera
not be an intrusive mechanism on the dance. The second section,choreographed
by Bella Lewitzky and performed by Iris Pell, takes place in a
static frame where space is defined by light, parameters designed
to enhance the spatial and physical clarity of the Lewitzky technique
and Ms. Pell's strength and beauty in her performance of it. The
third section, choreographed and performed by Louise Burns, emancipates
the dance space to a variety of outdoor settings. While the locations
change the dance continues enabling the dancer to cross the borders
of space and time in one step or turn. The film closes with a
study in gesture and movement, choreographed and performed by
Susan Rose, where the camera acts as a stalker of movement, an
outside, selective eye, following, retreating and sometimes leading
the figure to her next action, an example of movement deconstruction
in filmic terms.
Awards
Top
Ten Best Dance 1999, The Boston Globe
Bronze Award,
Melbourne
Film Festival, 1991
Second Place,
Film
Festival of Nations in Ebensee, 1990
Two Stars,
Festival Canadien Int'l du Film d'Art, 1990
Finalist, USA
Film Festival, 1990
Winner, Dorothy
Arzner Film and Video Festival, 1990
Honorable Mention
, Dance on Camera Festival,
1990
CINE Eagle,
Council On International Nontheatrical
Events, 1989
Jury Award,
New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, 1989
Certificate
of Merit, Chicago
International Film Festival, 1989
Completion
Grant, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1989
Finalist, Nissan
FOCUS Awards, 1989
Motion
Picture Association Award, 1989
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Television
Broadcasts
PBS
New Television, national market, 1989-present
PBS Texas,
The Territory, KLRU-Austin TX, KUHT-Houston TX, 1993-94
Studio 7, WNEV-TV, Boston MA, 1991
Screenings
Filmmakers'
Open Studios,
Emerson College, April 27, 2002.
Boston
Conservatory, Boston, MA, 2000
The University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
Dance Film
& Videos of Bridget Murnane, Film
At The Prince, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.
Dance
Film Video Works by Bridget Murnane, Green
Street Studios, Cambridge, MA, 1999
"Films In The
Garden," Somerville, MA, 1996
University
of Texas Dance Department, Austin, TX, 1993
Harvard Summer
Dance Film Program, Cambridge, MA 1991
Harvard-Radcliffe
Dance Program, Cambridge, MA 1991
Melbourne
Film Festival, Melbourne Australia, 1991
Dallas
Video Festival, Dallas TX, 1991
Film
Festival of Nations, Ebensee Austria, 1991
World Film
Festival, Huy Belgium, 1991
Shifting the
Spectacle: Women, Film and Politics, Cambridge MA, 1991
III Mostra
de Video-Dansa, Barcelona Spain, 1991
Festival Canadien
Int'l du Film d'Art, Ontario, Canada, 1990
Dance Imagen
Acarte Fundacao, Lisbon, Portugal, 1990
USA
Short Film and Video Festival, Dallas, TX, 1990
Dorothy
Arzner Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA, 1990
Dance
On Camera Festival, New York City, NY, 1990
Goteborg
Film Festival, Goteborg, Sweden, 1990
New York Exposition
of Short Film and Video, New York City, NY, 1990
Second Grand
Prix Video Danse, Paris, France, 1990
Denver
International Film Festival, Denver, Colorado, 1989
Chicago
International Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 1989
Festival
Des Films Du Monde, Montreal, Canada, 1989
Wine
Country Film Festival, Glen Ellen, CA, 1989
Reviews
The
Boston Globe Best
Dance of 1999 Christine Temin 12.26.99
The Boston Globe Murnane
Makes Magic Marriage of Dance and Film Thea Singer 11.6.99
The Boston Globe Faces
To Watch Christine Temin 4.8.90
The Boston Globe Dance
Notes Christine Temin 12.6.89
Los Angeles Times 3
Artists Transferring Movement Onto Screen Lewis Segal 6.9.89
LA Weekly School
Daze Elvis Mitchell 6.9-15.89
Los Angeles Times Social
Themes Dominate Film School's 'Women's Works' Chris Willman
4.10.89
LA Weekly Women's
Work Jan Ventura 4.7-13.89
Distributors
BuyIndies.com/Susan
Rose
BuyIndies.com/Iris
Pell
BuyIndies.com/Louise
Burn
BAM Productions
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