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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 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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