Etienne Aussel & Valerie Gabail | 2017 | France | 73
Based on Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Sacres brings together the perspectives of five contemporary choreographers, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Angelin Preljocaj, Sasha Waltz, David Wampach and Olivier Dubois. Offsetting shots of rehearsals and public performances against ethnographic archival footage by Jean Rouch, Luc de Heusch and W.F. Murnau, Sacres conducts a dreamlike reflection on the uneasy borders between ritual and its representations.
