Dance Movies

A dance film that explores new dimensions in color and space. The film develops like a fugue, with dancers (and giant undulating circle) moving...

Atlas' 2013 film Exchange is based on the 1978 dance piece of the same name by legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. Atlas created the...

The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry. The...

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Focuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography...

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in...

Animated public information film from the Health and Cleanliness Council.

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray...

About the sensuality in Swedish folk dance and folk music. A film that blends dance, fiction and documentary material into a heated, rough and...

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their...

An actor and his protege lock themselves away from the world while he rehearses for a part in an upcoming feature.

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

Canadas contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps performs Édouard Lock's "Human Sex" .

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Instructed teaching of social dances for the new millennium in dancing school Urska in Ljubljana.

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...