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The private, discreet Saburo Teshigawara took the risk of working in front of the camera. How do we account for what Teshigawara explores beneath the surface in an unknownness that he seeks to bring his dancers into contact with, to share with them so that they make discoveries about themselves and thus about us? On the surface, the camera records almost banal dance exercises, instructions for a re-found obviousness: “dance means being upright, standing on the ground” or mysteries; dance involves working on a feeling of reality, expressed in a gentle voice, in a Japanese punctured with silences and in an austere and beguiling English. The apparent filmed simplicity expresses its weight “in unconscious things into which dance provides the greatest access.”

France - 2005 - 57 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Élisabeth Coronel Writer Élisabeth Coronel Camera Martial Barrault, Ned Burgess, Élisabeth Coronel Sound Laurent Rodriguez Editing Élisabeth Coronel, Arnaud de Mezamat

Production Abacaris Films, 15, passage de la Main d'Or, 75011 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4805 1919 Fax : +33 (0)1 4805 6414 E-mail : contact@abacaris-films.fr Co-Production ARTE France, Opéra de Lille, Karas

Sales Abacaris Films, 15, passage de la Main d'Or, 75011 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4805 1919 Fax : +33 (0)1 4805 6414 E-mail : contact@abacaris-films.fr