Baroque Statues

Baroque Statues

16 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1974

In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasingly improvised dance. A successful act of liberation from (Catholic) convention, which the material celebrates in an acstasy of multiple exposures and psychedelic colors.

Baroque Statues

16 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1974

Baroque Statues
In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasingly improvised dance. A successful act of liberation from (Catholic) convention, which the material celebrates in an acstasy of multiple exposures and psychedelic colors.
Producers
Original title Baroque Statues
Directors Maria Lassnig
Writers

Cast

Liesbeth Eberwein

as Dancer