HOME Exercises - 22min - 2017
Adapting the form of the home workout video, Home Exercises investigates the gestural habits and choreographies of aging individuals in their homes. Created in collaboration with a group of eight seniors to shape their daily routines into dance for camera, the on-screen movements shift in their fidelity to the daily patterns they reperform. Some elders rigorously reenact their daily actions, whereas others erupt into stylized and rhythmically altered movements. Intertitles precede each exercise, annotating the performances while charting the time of day from morning to nightfall.
Distributed by Video Data Bank
Director & Editor: Sarah Friedland
Producers: Rachel Balaban, Sarah Friedland and Gabe C. Elder
Cinematographer: Gabe C. Elder
Sound Design: Assaf Gidron
Production Design: Stephanie Osin Cohen
Screenings:
New Directors/New Films, BAMcinématek, Sharjah Film Platform @ Sharjah Art Foundation, Movies by Movers @ American Dance Festival, International Festival of Arts & Ideas New Haven with the Neighborhood Music School and Mark Morris Dance Group, FEST New Directors/New Films (awarded Silver Lynx for Best Experimental Film) Montclair Film Festival, Working Title Festival (Special Jury Mention for Experimental Short Film) Diametrale, Festival Ciné Corps Paris, Athens Videodance Project, Cucalorus Festival, The IMAGINE Festival: Film, Technology, and the Body in Action, HOME @ Collar Works gallery, Nitehawk Cinema, Biblioteca Castilla-La Manca, and Festival of Recorded Movement
