That has been bothering me the whole time

What we’re being confronted with isn’t immediately obvious: We hear deep breathing and the rustle and fall of textiles covering a dancing body. The camera stays close to it, thereby abstracting the structures and patterns produced by the movement.
Contrasts between light and dark are a powerful formal aesthetic element and also anticipate the dramatic mood, which will come to a head in the course of the film.
Although solely fragments of the body can be discerned at first, the gestures, strides and sounds convey an awareness of the body we would expect of a martial-arts fighter.
As soon as the dancer...

Orig. Title
That has been bothering me the whole time
Year
2013
Country
Austria
Duration
10 min
Director
Arash T. Riahi
Category
dance film/video
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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