Alexia Walther (CH/FR) | Twist
[ 2006, 11'00'' ]
SYNOPSIS
Four men dance in the set of a beach bar off season. One of them, before, recalled the circumstances of a military defeat. This film puts in parallel an episode of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars and a choreographed digest of the history of the Twist.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Alexia Walther was born in 1974 in Genève, she lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Genève. In 2008 her work is exhibited at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève. Her films have been screened at international festivals, among others at International Shor t Film Festival Oberhausen, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, International Film Festival of Locarno, and Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
- L’élan, 2008, 15'00" (post-production)
- L’été, 2008, 9'00", digital video (post-production)
- Twist, 2006, 11'00", 16mm on Betacam
- La Notte, 2005, 2'35", 35mm on Betacam
- Totentanz, 2004, 5'09", digital video
- Trionfale, 2003, 7'45", digital video