Danse Macabre

2009 — 9 min

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Danse Macabre is a screendance work by Pedro Pires and AnneBruce Falconer, produced in 2009.

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Synopsis

For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life? Created in collaboration with AnneBruce Falconer and Robert Lepage, Danse Macabre has been a great success at numerous festivals where it has won nearly 40 international awards, including a Jutra and a Genie in 2010, as well as the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009.

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