The Dream of Norma

Deutschland, 2009
Length
7 minutes
Director
Alexiou Telémacos
Cast
  • Vaginal Davis
  • Alexiou Telémacos

Content

Telémacos Alexiou’s video installation THE DREAM OF NORMA translates principal cinematographic parameters like stillness/movement, depth/flatness, black/white into a reduced and lusty duality. On three screens, a dancing duel unfolds between Norma (Vaginal Davis) and a phantom masked in black (Telémacos Alexiou). It is a ceremony of temptation, a erotic courtship in a blinding white, »unmarked room« (Deleuze); a room free from all spacial coordinates. The dancers’ bodies are transformed into graphic forms. Telémacos Alexiou uses choreographed camera and bodily movement to recreate personal experience and ask questions about identity.

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Credits

Production company
Chocolate Grinder Films, Berlin
Original title
The Dream of Norma