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Date produced: 1966

Filmmaker(s):

Alise Ziverts

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:01:00

Format:

16mm

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1966 - Honorable Mention, PSA Special Citation for Excellence in an Unusual Filmic Technique 1966

Description:

"Ballerina is easily the most unusual film to be entered in the Competition in many years. Alise Ziverts the maker, has scratched the images on a piece of opaque 16mm film. Though the technique is not new, her masterful effort of depicting a man and a woman dancer with no more than a sharp needle is little less than amazing. With a screen time of one minute at 16 frames per second, this amounts to approximately 1000 separate drawings Miss Ziverts was required to make on the small frame area" PSA Journal, Sept. 1966, 35.

Locations:

  • Jamaica, New York (Filming)

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