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A short documentary dance film about what we think is good and beautiful and valueable – and what fat bodies and dance can really do.

  • Magdalena Hutter
    Director
  • Magdalena Hutter
    Producer
  • Gillie Kleiman
    Key Cast
  • Rachel Stockdale
    Key Cast
  • Gillie Kleiman
    Choreography
  • Magdalena Hutter
    Cinematographer
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  • Magdalena Hutter
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Student
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 37 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    750 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal
  • Screen:Moves
    Toronto
    Canada
    December 13, 2022
    Word Premiere
    Recipient Commissioning Program
  • Lights Dance Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    November 16, 2024
    Audience Choice Arachne Program
  • Café Concret
    Montreal
    Canada
    November 16, 2024
  • IMARP Mostra Internacional de Dança - Imagens em Movimento - Videodança
    Riberão Preto
    Brazil
    December 8, 2024
    "Corpxs Dissidentes" Program
Director Biography - Magdalena Hutter

Magdalena Hutter is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer currently doing research-creation around fatness, movement art, and bodies on film. Her work looks at the representation and performance of fatness in dance and explores the potentials of fat screendance. Magdalena is a PhD candidate in the Humanities at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in Montreal.

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Director Statement

Fat bodies are severely underrepresented in dance and movement art. As a fat person longing to see bodies like mine on stage and screen, I think this is a shame. I also believe that it is a mistake: any artform, but particularly one that works with and through the body, will be limited in its creative potential, expression, and political relevance if it excludes non-normative embodiment. My research and my film work aim to explore and highlight the potential for creative, political, and theoretical innovation that fatness holds, both as a marginalized form of embodiment as well as through its materiality.

This film is a conversation and a collaboration with fat dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar Gillie Kleiman. It asks questions about the concept of virtuosity, the potentials of fatness in dance, and the role that contact and rest can play in that.