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Shapes

Austria · 1972 · 10 minutes · NR

Human forms in "Shapes" dance to J.S. Bach´s breakneck runs on the harpsichord. However the animated spray paintings of plump discus throwers and wiry girls quickly confuse our culturally conditioned eye: What´s male, what´s female? The music quickens. As they dance in a sped-up micro-evolution, their movements become increasingly voluptuous, their bodies fuller-more: feminine it would seem, but who could say in this case?

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Austria / 1972 / 10 minutes / NR

Human forms in “Shapes” dance to J.S. Bach´s breakneck runs on the harpsichord. However the animated spray paintings of plump discus throwers and wiry girls quickly confuse our culturally conditioned eye: What´s male, what´s female? The music quickens. As they dance in a sped-up micro-evolution, their movements become increasingly voluptuous, their bodies fuller-more: feminine it would seem, but who could say in this case?

Director
Maria Lassnig