Cinema

Danse Mortelle, anatomie d'une épidémie // La passion

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C Compagnie des phares et balises Danse Mortelle 3

Strasbourg, 1518. An inexplicable epidemic strikes the city. Those infected begin to dance uncontrollably, caught in a collective, contagious trance, until exhaustion and sometimes even death.

Through interventions by dancers, specialists in medieval dance, and echoes of 1960s–70s raves and social movements, the film investigates one of Europe’s most mysterious historical episodes: the case of the “dancing plague.” Beyond the medical enigma, it questions the authorities’ perception and response to collective movements—between fear, control, and repression.

Première nord-américaine

Sélection officielle - longs-métrages

Opening act: short film La passion

Short film

Première mondiale
Sélection officielle - courts-métrages
France / 2025 / 7 minutes / Sans dialogue 

 

Réalisation Alain Fleischer Production Céline Muller, Christophe Baudoin Direction artistique Mattéo Dugast Montage Baptiste Evrard Montage son Christian Cartier Caméra Sylvain Briend Chorégraphie Sylvain Groud

 

Set to music by Antonio Vivaldi and a choreography by Sylvain Groud, this short dance film captures the emergence of passion between two characters, straddling two worlds: one dark and dehumanized, the other verdant and full of love.

La passion

Bastien Gens

In French only

Alain Fleischer

In French only

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