Dress Rehearsal

BR Deutschland 1979/1980 Kurz-Experimentalfilm

Summary

A tie or lace? After trying on numerous treasures from New York’s second-hand stores, and extravagant fashion accessories, Karola Gramann decides on a traditional dinner jacket with cummerbund and bow tie. We then see her posing & vogueing to Bryan Ferry’s "These Foolish Things". These shorts are an early gender bend that evoke Kenneth Anger’s biker etude "Scorpio Rising" (1963) and even anticipate the Madonna phenomenon.

Source: 69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

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Duration:
8 min
Format:
16mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.11.1980, Berlin, Kino Arsenal;
Aufführung (DE): 12.02.2019, Berlin, IFF - Retrospektive

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  • Originaltitel (DE) Dress Rehearsal

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Original

Duration:
8 min
Format:
16mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.11.1980, Berlin, Kino Arsenal;
Aufführung (DE): 12.02.2019, Berlin, IFF - Retrospektive