Home Exercises

Home Exercises

2017 · 21 min

Using the formal structure of a home workout video, this hybrid documentary and dance film investigates the gestural habits of aging individuals and looks at the physicality of aging as choreography. In its invitation to viewers to move, the film stages choreographies between the mise-en-scène and the home dweller.

Directed by Sarah Friedland

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