Ballet on a paraphrenic theme (extract).

Date:
1966/7
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Ballet on a paraphrenic theme (extract). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Ballet sur un theme paraphrenique (extract).
Drama piece rushes.

Description

Surreal, pre-Raphaelite influenced drama piece showing a child dressed as a fairy being given 'medicines' by a young woman shot with a sepia tone. The young woman dancing and peeling 'skin'. Young girl in ornate bed in an ornate room but with prison bars. The girl then lies in a 'coffin', which is carried away by four male dancers in red frock coats and then carried through a garden in a torchlight ceremony. There are shots of the young woman falling in a lily pond at night, as though dead. With a crashing electronic score.

Publication/Creation

1966/7.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (07:18 mins.) : sound, colour

Duration

00:07:18

Copyright note

Sandoz Products Ltd.

Terms of use

Copyright not cleared

Language note

In English.

Creator/production credits

By Didier-Jacques Duche and Eric Diviviere.

Notes

Duped in 1967 from original negative. This is an extract from the 1966 film 'Ballet on a paraphrenic theme'. Formerly titled 'Drama Piece Rushes' prior to its association with the longer film was known.
This film forms part of a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2006 by The British Medical Association.

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