Lynden Sculpture Garden Co-Presents One Day Pina Asked at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
Lynden is proud to continue its tradition of co-sponsoring a screening at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival. This year, in keeping with Lynden's longtime support of dance, we're presenting One Day Pina Asked, Chantal Akerman's film about choreographer Pina Bausch. Alverno Presents, with whom we've collaborated on dance performances by Eiko and Koma and The Trisha Brown Dance Company, are Community Sponsors of the screening.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 – UWM Union Theatre
7pm -- FREE
ONE DAY PINA ASKED
(Chantal Akerman, France, in German and French with English subtitles, 57min., 1983)
One great artist considers another in this meditative immersion into the practice and process of revered choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009) by the celebrated filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Filmed while her German–based dance company fulfills a European tour, this portrait-through-process offers contemplation-as-explanation into the method behind Bausch’s mesmerizing tableaus. An understanding and appreciation accumulates through generously shared and quite beautiful passages of dance, through the testimony from the dancers on all, from their own lives, that they share.
Like Akerman’s own self-portrait CHANTAL AKERMAN BY CHANTAL AKERMAN (1996) (one of the many films by this lesbian artist that Festival has previously featured), ONE DAY PINA ASKED is an assemblage of moments, thoughtful rather than chronological, a composition of sequences unenunciated by an explaining voiceover but rather through Akerman’s characteristic compositional guile and long-take eloquence.
An album of moments, the film is a captivating introduction to the accomplishments of style that both of these artists have achieved, and an invigorating reaquaintance for those already devoted to the work of these two women.
With:
SHOULDER (Andy Warhol, US, 16mm, 4min., 1964)
A silent portrait of dancer Lucinda Childs, or that is, her shoulder; or, that is a dance piece of characteristic minimalism (Child’s; Warhol’s).
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