Documentary filmmaker Christopher Herrmann's gossamer-light tribute to
monstre sacre Martha Graham, doyenne of American modern dance, is a fragile artifice that ultimately rests on the broad shoulders of performance artist Richard Move. Structured around the efforts of one-time Graham student-turned-filmmaker Barbara Rosen (Ann Magnusen) to document the creation of a new Graham work and explore the legendary choreographer's tempestuous life and ideas about art, the film unfolds as Graham (Move) choreographs a new dance-drama based on the Greek myth of Pheadra, whose tormented liaison with her stepson Hippolytus (Reid Hutchins) shatters her family. Although Gra...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins