LINGUA IGNOTA // SUFFER FOREVER
2017 · 8m · USA
Directed by Kristin Hayter
Genres: experimental, musical
Tones: dark, mythic, theatrical
A performance film in which composer-artist Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) combines original music and performance with visual material sourced from Pina Bausch's choreography of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, producing a work of sustained ritual intensity.
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Hayter's decision to graft her own noise-liturgy onto Bausch's Rite of Spring is an act of artistic citation that demands to be read in the context of both experimental music and dance cinema — a rare alignment of two formally uncompromising practices.
Hayter's noise composition layered over Bausch's Sacre. The dialogue between two female ritualisms is real — but visual accompaniment sourced from another artist's choreography is a borrowed image bank.
Hayter layers her own liturgical noise over Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring choreography — two female-authored ritual traditions in dialogue across decades. 7:44 of sustained intensity that earns its appropriation.