Through the Eyes of My Meal
2016 · 6m · USA
Directed by Jordan Taylor Fuller
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A contemporary dance film shot in Brooklyn in which choreographer Katherine Maxwell's movement investigates themes of vulnerability and betrayal. Four performers enact the work with an original score by Basic Shapes.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Fuller's dance cinema is competent and the Nowness Staff Pick suggests real quality, but this is the kind of short that lives and dies by its choreography rather than its filmmaking — which makes it harder to advocate for with full confidence. A decent score-6 entry for a dance-inclined audience.
The title is the only interesting part. The actual film is Brooklyn dance-film template #14: white walls, four performers, vulnerability discourse.
Brooklyn-shot contemporary dance film whose title takes the literal POV of a meal being eaten — vulnerability as predation, four performers, original score. Quietly unnerving conceit if the choreography earns it.
Festivals
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016
- San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2016
- NewBorn Short Film Agency - The Festival 2016