{"id":3247,"date":"2011-12-26T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irasperipheralvisions.com\/WetPaint\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2012-01-25T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:32:15","slug":"wim-wenders-pina-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irasperipheralvisions.com\/WetPaint\/wim-wenders-pina-in-3d.htm","title":{"rendered":"Wim Wenders’ Pina in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wim Wenders’ Pina in 3D
\nBAM Rose Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n

Official Film Trailer<\/a>
\nLeonard Lopate Interviews Wim Wenders<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nWim Wenders’ film Pina in 3D<\/em> is a beautiful love letter to Pina Bausch from himself and her dancers.\u00a0 It’s one of the most beautiful dance films I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, in an interview with Leonard Lopate, Wenders said that there was “something wrong between film and dance period” and I’d have to agree.\u00a0 Dance works in plot driven films like The Red Shoes<\/em>, but not so well in straight concert recordings.\u00a0 Wenders candidly said that when he first began working on the film, he just didn’t know how to do it.\u00a0 But when he first saw the new digital 3D, things began to work for him.\u00a0 The 3D effects are extraordinary and create the depth needed for the space in which the dancers work.<\/p>\n

Pina told Wenders that she did not want a biographical film.\u00a0 Wenders described her as a woman of few words, so there would be no on camera interviews about the work.\u00a0 Their goal had been to make a film about the work itself, and so the film takes the audience on a journey directly through the dances.<\/p>\n

From the earliest moments of the film, the enormous spirits of Pina and her dancers become palpable.<\/p>\n

The first thing we see is Pina’s connection to the earth and the elements.\u00a0 One dance is set on a stage covered with soil and the dancers themselves seem to have been born from the earth.\u00a0 There are very exciting unison sections danced by large groups, set to music that pulses with urgency.\u00a0 The men are bare chested and the women are wearing thin pale slips.\u00a0 The dancers move like a tribe, like a nation of their own.\u00a0 There is no room for pretense.\u00a0 Pretty movement is abandoned for that which is raw and primal.<\/p>\n

Many of the dances move outdoors to settings that are natural, pastoral or park like.\u00a0 They also move to an Olympic sized swimming pool, to a floating tram car from the light rail mass transit system in Wuppertal, to an escalator, to a dark underground tunnel full of graffiti and murals, to a busy intersection of city streets.<\/p>\n

Woven into the presentation of the dances are remarks made by the dancers.\u00a0 They do not appear on screen as talking heads, but rather we hear their words as they silently face the camera.\u00a0 It seemed to me that this worked to reveal who and what the dancers are in a way that their words alone just couldn’t.\u00a0 We see and feel their spirit, their vulnerability, their artistry, their insecurity.\u00a0 The dancers come from different countries the world over and most of them make their remarks in their own native tongue.\u00a0 They offer glimpses into what it was like for them to work with Pina .\u00a0 Many of them speak volumes by just repeating a simple statement that Pina made in the studio.\u00a0 One dancer says that Pina told her, “You just have to get crazier.”\u00a0 One dancer was told, “Your fragility is also your strength.”\u00a0 One dancer is waiting for Pina to visit her in her dreams.\u00a0 One dancer speaks of Pina’s penetrating gaze and her ability to see through pretense.<\/p>\n

For Caf\u00e9 Muller<\/em>, Wenders shows us a recent performance of the dance, then cuts in archival footage of Pina in younger days dancing one of the roles.\u00a0 Her movement is gorgeous in its detail and musicality.\u00a0 The simplest port des bras becomes so lush and full of meaning.\u00a0 She talks about dancing in Caf\u00e9 Muller<\/em> with her eyes closed and I am taken by the amount of trust that was necessary for her to do that and to rely on the other dancers to clear the way for her.<\/p>\n

Her dances seem so organic that I can’t even imagine that they are rehearsed and brought to stage in a traditional manner.\u00a0 They seem so raw and so spontaneous.\u00a0 They bear such little resemblance to collections of\u00a0 “steps” that we learn in a studio.<\/p>\n

Even as the film takes the viewer straight to what is honest and primal, and launches into conversations about the deepest and most heartfelt matters, the dances do not lose their sense of humor.\u00a0 The film has a few moments in which the audience laughs out loud.<\/p>\n

The last moments of the film got me so choked up.\u00a0 They are not sentimental and I don’t want to spoil them for those who will see the film, but I have to say that I left the cinema with my heart overflowing with love and awe.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend this film to those who already are dance enthusiasts,\u00a0 but I think that the humanity of Pina’s dances and the brilliant way in which this film was created and presented will give it a universal appeal.<\/p>\n

If you love dance, be sure to see this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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