Butoh : "A world of darkness that our modern age has lost, where the gap between words disappears and where existence unfolds before us" Hijikata Tatsumi
Wreck
Beach Butoh Art film by Pascal Provost
Between
the impenetrable blackness of the endowment lands
rainforest and the primordial Pacific Ocean lies Wreck
Beach Butoh, Pascal Provost's transcendent art film of an
annual collaboration of Butoh by Vancouver's
Kokoro Dance.
Intentionally employing the nature of 16 mm, this
cross-cultural avante garde film is a provocation of
black and white where the specter of light continually
emerges from the shadows to introduce the possibility of
speaking about the unspeakable. The grain is used to
push the audience away from the constraints of the
physical realm, collapsing the air, the water, the sand
and the naked body into one. DNS soundtrack is an
extension beyond the filmic, seducing the viewer into a
vicarious, hypnotic dance. That which is formless
becomes seen and that which is soundless, heard. Wreck
Beach Butoh successfully translates the precepts of
Ankoku Butoh from one form into another, with each
leading parallel existential lives. Both the dance and
the film become an exceptional and universalizing
transitory moment for these artist's shared
sensibilities.
Femke
van Delft
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