LIST OF MAE FILMS TO VIEW

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MAE ON MAE

Members of MAE talk about how their videos are made and their movement     improvisation process. 

MYLAR 1: Fabric of the Universe

It is the silent, smiling faces that speak first, as they drift through the tunnel-- fluttering and crackling as though it whispers, as though it breathes. The faces of the Movers shine luminous as those of children at their first contact with something magical. Fabric of the Universe can be viewed as an inquiring study of the qualities of light and texture evoked by the mylar as it interacts with movement and form.   

MYLAR 2: Opening the Mylar: A Meditation on Reflected Light

This film chronicles opening the mylar, unrolling it from its 10' tall roll. Again, the camera observes, the mover artists move, the editor experiments with criss crossing and stacking images, and the light shimmers on.


 MYLAR 3: COVER

 Featuring a music track from the Dutch band, "Audiotransparent," COVER brings forward the alien-entity possibilities of the mylar. The camera's eye contemplates the movements of a metallic creature, graceful and glittering, creating its own haunting dance. Meanwhile, quantum-size glimpses of another reality  flicker through, like the last traces of a dimension poignantly similar to our own.

MYLAR 4: BUTOH FALL                 

Butoh is an avant garde  improvisation dance /  performance art that had its origins in Japan in the 1960's. It strives to allow the body to "speak" for itself, through     unconscious movement. Originally, it sought to reveal beauty in the dark, the misshapen, the primitive, and the unknown or subconscious realms of the human psyche. Butoh Fall pays homage to this unconventional form through the intensity of the two movers, their anesthetized tempos, frozen faces, the downward pull of body shapes and gestures, the threatening sound track. Toward its end, the film offers a last interaction between the detached couple, one of them striking the floor loudly with her legs again and again, as if to awaken the other, or to shake her out of her trance. Is there light at the end of this  tunnel?      
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HER CHARIOT, HER SELF
Recently featured on San Diego public access television in the series Creative Collaborations, "HER CHARIOT, HERSELF" is a moving image docu poem by video artist, Gwyn Henry.

This film was inspired by assemblage sculptor and movement artist, Tanya Alexis Notkoff and her sculpture, "HER CHARIOT." In it, Notkoff discusses her creative process during the making of the assemblage sculpture, HER CHARIOT,  connecting the piece with the loss of her mother, Shela, (an artist, dancer and dance therapist) from breast cancer, and showing, through four filmed improvisations, how that experience became part of the sculpture.