Creation, Part One 2008.
Color. 88 min.
Sonntags Abschied, Part Two
2008. Color. 42 min.
A dance about a piece of music within a film about dance. From celebrated film director,
screenwriter, and Cahiers du cinéma critic Olivier Assayas (Paris, je t’aime, Boarding
Gate) comes Eldorado / Preljocaj, a riveting, two-part documentary chronicling the
efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to choreograph an otherworldly icon of 21st century music: Karlheinz
Stockhausen’s ethereal Sonntags-Abschied. With a camera both patient and obsessive,
as determined to translate gesture into film as Ballet Preljocaj is to turn tone into gesture,
Mr. Assayas uses a voyeur’s eye to transform the private rituals of the rehearsal process into
a public drama of human perseverance.
If at times the audience sees the dancers’
bodies at one with Stockhausen’s electronic soundscape, at other moments, the audience sees
the all-too-human flesh beautifully lost in translation. What results is a riveting testament
to three arts in dialogue—and to the ineluctable human desire to translate one into another.
Special thanks to Olivier Assayas, Sylvie Barthet, Birgit Kenmer.
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In French with
English subtitles
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