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The making of the experimental dance film, Lost Action: Trace, produced at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The directors, choreographer Crystal Pite, and dance filmmakers Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer used stereoscopic 3D techniques and 7.1 Surround Sound as well as archival photographs and sound from the NFB archives to tell the story, adapted from Pite’s internationally lauded stage production. Lost Action: Trace commemorates the fading legacies of World War I, while also creating a moving homage to Pite’s mentors and contemporaries, whose lives and short careers are pitted against the fleeting nature of the dance art form. Combining the raw physicality of athletic power with Theodore Ushev’s hauntingly distinct artwork, the film resonates with the universal themes of conflict, loss, and rescue.
An earlier version of this chapter appeared as an article in The Dance Current 14:3 (Sept–Oct 2011), 46–8. See also website Lost Action/Trace by Marlene Millar, Crystal Pite, Philip Szporer—NFB.webarchive.
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Szporer, P., Millar, M. (2016). Moving In(To) 3D. In: Arendell, T., Barnes, R. (eds) Dance’s Duet with the Camera. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59610-9_13
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