A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

24 mins | Jan. 1, 2007

Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance choreography in a collection of 29 scenes. Set in various locations - including a gymnasium, an abandoned hospital, and a trailer park circus - Martin and Olsen slip between a ventriloquist and his dummy, a seducer and his surrogate, a doctor and his patient, and synchronized dance partners. The film examines a complex social psychology - questioning the colonization of the human body for various political, medical and religious agendas.

A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion

24 mins | Jan. 1, 2007

A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance choreography in a collection of 29 scenes. Set in various locations - including a gymnasium, an abandoned hospital, and a trailer park circus - Martin and Olsen slip between a ventriloquist and his dummy, a seducer and his surrogate, a doctor and his patient, and synchronized dance partners. The film examines a complex social psychology - questioning the colonization of the human body for various political, medical and religious agendas.
Producers
Original title A Heretic's Primer on Love and Exertion
Directors Daniele Wilmouth
Writers Split Lip Rayfield, Mark Messing