FILM

Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while she performs a 10 minute response to Eugene Ysaye’s 3 sonatas for violin solo - a piece of music that holds vivid memories for Loemij. A physical time limit, the 3-minute duration of one 16- mm roll of film, interrupts the camera’s recording of movement. While the dance continues, and the sound of movement is audible, the screen is black for the one minute that is needed to replace the roll of film. During the moments that the image is suspended, a game with the audience’s memory is being played. Just as Loemij has to draw the music from her memory, the viewer can project the image of her dancing body onto the black screen, enabled by the sound and memory of her repetitive movement.