Highlights

Hand Film (1966)

Audience Score
10
Hand Film
NR 6 minJan 1st, 1966
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Rainers first film Hand Film was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed recovering from major surgery and unable to dance The resulting five minutes of footage is a sustained closeup shot of Rainers hand against a grey background as it stretches and contracts bends and points performing the kinds of everyday quotidian movements that characterize her pioneering minimalist choreography