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Dance no. 22 - Rafael Montañez Ortiz (USA, 1993, video, 10:00 min)
"In my video work, I seek to suspend time, to magnify
beyond all proportion the fantasy, dream, or nightmare I glimpse in even the
most realistic straightforward documentary footage, in even the most innocent
storyline.” (RMO). In this video Montañez Ortiz rechoreographs a scene from the
Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera by
stuttered editing. The original, as we know it, is a love of anarchy. What
Montañez Ortiz achieves here is sheer madness; the walls literally vibrate. “In
an ongoing dance series, [Ortiz] has used this [editing] technique to explore
the rhythmic undertones in social interactions, often fights among men. Ortiz
describes the overall effect as a “holographic” space within the Hollywood
text, yet outside the familiar perceptual mode and linear structure of mass
media.”
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