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The Ballet of the Nations (2019)
Directed by Joshua Bentovim, Roseanna Anderson
“Billy Zane narrates this 50-minute arthouse film in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death.”
Drama · 50m
The film begins with Satan and Ballet Master Death discussing how to reintroduce chaos into a complacent society. Satan instructs Ballet Master Death to assemble an orchestra of human passions (Fear, Panic, Suspicion, Hatred, Heroism, Murder etc.) to provide the music for a corps de ballet of Nations to perform the dance macabre of war. What follows is an often-humorous assembly of the orchestra, filmed in the atmospheric cavernous tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads. Following this assembly, we see the core Nations perform their dance, joined by a larger cohort of Nations for the final act, Revenge. The film is interspersed with danced sections performed by a Chorus, evocative of the choric elements of classical Greek tragedy.
Cast
Billy Zane
Peter Clements
Sonya Cullingford
Crew
- Director
- Joshua Bentovim, Roseanna Anderson
Details
- Release date
- 2019-04-03
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Production
- impermanence