Movie Details
Original Language:English
Bathing
DirectorP. Staff
18 min
Plot
Bathing explores themes of contamination cleanliness and debility through performance and dance The work draws on Staffs research into the classical figure of the bather chemical effects drunken revelry and the spiritello figures that commonly adorn European fountains The performers continuous actions and gestures eventually lead to overexertion of the body A fluid crosscontamination between substance performer and image occurs bringing to mind the ways in which bodies absorb and release chemicals hormones and other agentsa means of survival for some and potentially lethal for others
