Home Exercise is a film by Sarah Friedland.
Adapting the form of the home workout video, Home Exercises investigates the gestural habits and choreographies of aging individuals in their homes. Created in collaboration with a group of eight seniors to shape their daily routines into dance for camera, the on-screen movements shift in their fidelity to the daily patterns they reperform. Some elders rigorously reenact their daily actions, whereas others erupt into stylized and rhythmically altered movements. Intertitles precede each exercise, annotating the performances while charting the time of day from morning to nightfall.
Premiered at New Directors/New Films 2018.
Home Exercises
22 min, digital video, 2017
Upcoming Screenings: Maysles Documentary Center, 12/9/22.
Distributed by Video Data Bank
Adapting the form of the home workout video, Home Exercises investigates the gestural habits and choreographies of aging individuals in their homes. Created in collaboration with a group of eight seniors to shape their daily routines into dance for camera, the on-screen movements shift in their fidelity to the daily patterns they reperform. Some elders rigorously reenact their daily actions, whereas others erupt into stylized and rhythmically altered movements. Intertitles precede each exercise, annotating the performances while charting the time of day from morning to nightfall.
Directed and Edited by Sarah Friedland. Produced by Rachel Balaban, Sarah Friedland, and Gabe C. Elder. Cinematography by Gabe C Elder. Sound Design by Assaf Gidron. Production Design by Stephanie Osin Cohen. Title Design by Kirstin Huber. Gaffer, Leon Izsak. Colorist, Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli.
Featuring Steve Quinn, Micki Balaban, Anna Colaiace, Joyce Colaiace, George Wong, Carol Smith, Ed Rouslin, and Marcia Rouslin.
Funded in part by grants from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts/NEA and by the Dance Films Association.
Past Screenings: New Directors/New Films, BAMcinématek, Sharjah Film Platform @ Sharjah Art Foundation, Movies by Movers @ American Dance Festival, International Festival of Arts & Ideas New Haven with the Neighborhood Music School and Mark Morris Dance Group, FEST New Directors/New Films (awarded Silver Lynx for Best Experimental Film), Montclair Film Festival, Working Title Festival (Special Jury Mention for Experimental Short Film) , Diametrale, Festival Ciné Corps Paris, Athens Videodance Project, Cucalorus Festival, The IMAGINE Festival: Film, Technology, and the Body in Action, HOME @ Collar Works gallery, Nitehawk Cinema, Biblioteca Castilla-La Manca, and Festival of Recorded Movement, Wheaton Biennial (juror: Legacy Russell) Roman Susan Gallery Chicago, University of Rochester - On Film Series.