ANTH 408 [2022]
The Critical Media Lab supports students in ANTH 408 and ANTH 555 with practical workshops in video, film and sound, as well as screenings and artists talks, all of which are essential resources for students to produce their own films and soundscapes.
Rhythm by Thalia Danielson
RHYTHM, is a sensory ethnographic film that seeks to immerse the viewer in the textures of rhythm-making. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of an experimental circus troupe in Montreal, Collectif 4237 – a troupe composed of circus artists practicing contortion, roller skating, juggling, trapeze, aerial rope, and cyr wheel. The film asks, What is rhythm? How is it achieved among performers? What can being immersed in a rhythm communicate that words cannot?
As the performers work to build and perform their collective and individual acts, their gestures, and movements – the songs of their bodies – sway the audience into their rhythms, generating shreds of laughter, the silence of contemplation, and waves of applause. In our world of disruptions, how can we learn to flow with the rhythms of others? What can opening ourselves to the rhythms of others allow?
RHYTHM, is a comma, a disruption, an inhale, a pause, and an invitation to weave oneself into the rhythms of a circus collective, through the images and sounds on a cinema screen
ANTH 408 [2022]
The Critical Media Lab supports students in ANTH 408 and ANTH 555 with practical workshops in video, film and sound, as well as screenings and artists talks, all of which are essential resources for students to produce their own films and soundscapes.
Rhythm by Thalia Danielson
RHYTHM, is a sensory ethnographic film that seeks to immerse the viewer in the textures of rhythm-making. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of an experimental circus troupe in Montreal, Collectif 4237 – a troupe composed of circus artists practicing contortion, roller skating, juggling, trapeze, aerial rope, and cyr wheel. The film asks, What is rhythm? How is it achieved among performers? What can being immersed in a rhythm communicate that words cannot?
As the performers work to build and perform their collective and individual acts, their gestures, and movements – the songs of their bodies – sway the audience into their rhythms, generating shreds of laughter, the silence of contemplation, and waves of applause. In our world of disruptions, how can we learn to flow with the rhythms of others? What can opening ourselves to the rhythms of others allow?
RHYTHM, is a comma, a disruption, an inhale, a pause, and an invitation to weave oneself into the rhythms of a circus collective, through the images and sounds on a cinema screen
ANTH 408 [2022]
The Critical Media Lab supports students in ANTH 408 and ANTH 555 with practical workshops in video, film and sound, as well as screenings and artists talks, all of which are essential resources for students to produce their own films and soundscapes.
Rhythm by Thalia Danielson
RHYTHM, is a sensory ethnographic film that seeks to immerse the viewer in the textures of rhythm-making. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of an experimental circus troupe in Montreal, Collectif 4237 – a troupe composed of circus artists practicing contortion, roller skating, juggling, trapeze, aerial rope, and cyr wheel. The film asks, What is rhythm? How is it achieved among performers? What can being immersed in a rhythm communicate that words cannot?
As the performers work to build and perform their collective and individual acts, their gestures, and movements – the songs of their bodies – sway the audience into their rhythms, generating shreds of laughter, the silence of contemplation, and waves of applause. In our world of disruptions, how can we learn to flow with the rhythms of others? What can opening ourselves to the rhythms of others allow?
RHYTHM, is a comma, a disruption, an inhale, a pause, and an invitation to weave oneself into the rhythms of a circus collective, through the images and sounds on a cinema screen
An Urban Wild by Leo Stillinger
