A Chorus of Footsteps

A meditation on the act of walking, created in the form of a stop-motion animation featuring a puppetry of clay feet.

"Walking is a rite, catharsis, initiation, pilgrimage, is longing, adventure, liberation, amusement, is expulsion, flight, force."
– Volker Adolphs

  • Sara Dittrich
    Director
  • Sara Dittrich
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 48 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Baltimore Museum of Art Exhibition
    Baltimore
    United States
    September 12, 2018
    North American Premiere
Director Biography - Sara Dittrich

Sara Dittrich is an interdisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. She uses sculptural objects, musical performance, video, and interactive electronic technologies to investigate the dynamic rhythms of the body, and the interconnected patterns residing in everyday life. She received her BFA in interdisciplinary sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions, including venues such as Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI), and the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD). Dittrich has also exhibited her work internationally in the Czech Republic where she studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She received a 2017 Mary Sawyers Baker Artist Award, and has been allotted residencies at Sculpture Space, Vermont Studio Center, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

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