Lodela (1996)

Directed by

Philippe Baylaucq

Genre

experimental film, dance film

Country

Canada

Runtime

26 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two dancers perform choreography inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The film explores ideas of death and the afterlife through movement and imagery.

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What happens

Lodela is a 1996 dance film directed by Philippe Baylaucq, and produced in Montreal by the National Film Board of Canada. The film received eight awards, including Best Short Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, citing its "formal beauty and poetic cinematic construction". The film featured dancers José Navas and Chi Long, with Navas also serving as choreographer. Lodela draws its inspiration from the Bardo Thodol, with the film's title a corruption of "l'au-delà," a French term for the hereafter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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