producing and distributing dance, experimental, documentary and narrative films.

“Tournants”

16mm, animation, 6:07, color, 1987

“It was visually arresting and charmingly witty.” 

                                                                  ~ The Boston Globe, Karen Campbell

“The piece is a whimsical lesson in animation technique (which requires control of time and space) and dance-concert history- complete with a cut out of Murnane, the ultimate choreographer, taking the final bow.”

                                                                        ~ The Boston Globe, Thea Singer

“Why the insistence that dance video has developed far beyond expectaions?  These skeptics who refuse to recognize the merits of dance video obviously never saw....the animation in Tournants by Bridget Murnane, (compared to Monty Python's Terry Gilliam) would make them warm to the subject."

                                                                     ~ Dance magazine, Deirdre Towers

Synopsis

A personal interpretation of the history of concert dance through the manipulation of cut-outs where the famous dancers of the 19th century sometime collide with their modern day counterparts.
 

Credits

Production, Direction, Animation, Camera, Editing by Bridget Murnane