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Choros

BALAGAN – My personal favorite of the array of selections from the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival screening as part of this month’s Cambridge-based Balagan Film Series, Choros is a spellbinding and uplifting short. I’ll attempt to describe it: as a single dancer (the film’s co-director Terah Maher) moves across the screen, her movements multiply and overlap, and she becomes a chorus of women. It’s visually stunning stuff.

But perhaps the best tribute that I can pay to Choros is to acknowledge that there really is no describing it. It’s resistant to being reduced to words, a reminder that dance; music; and indeed, cinema; can sometimes transcend words altogether.

by Victoria Large   on 19 Feb 2012 8:37 AM   Source: Screener Download