Short film
Salomania
2009 · 17 min
A slow, cerebral art piece that studies a silent-film dance and its restaging, rewarding close attention with layers of image and gesture.
- Directed by
- Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
- Starring
- Yvonne Rainer, Wu Tsang
- Overview
- Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Art, memory, identity, gender
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz
- Starring
- Yvonne Rainer, Wu Tsang
