The Spider and the Fly

The Spider and the Fly. Everyone was waiting for her to dance a tarantella.

About the work

Excerpt from The Spider and the Fly, a parable, began as one of the Insect Dances of Le Posizioni Veneziane. Realized in video, the work develops its full significance through the use of re-photography and digital effects created on the Amiga computer with software by Electronic Arts. It was shot in the artist's studio and at the WWII Manzanar War Relocation Center in Inyo County, California.

Credits

Dancer: Margaret Fisher
Music: Robert Hughes
Script, Direction, Digital Effects, Montage: Margaret Fisher
Produced by: International Performance Network and MAFISHCO
Original format: VHS, analog, color
Release Date: 1993 TRT: 7 minutes
Genres: Short Experimental Video, American Dance on Video

Screenings and Awards

VideOasis Film & Video Festival: Buffalo, NY
Video Altars: Works of Remembrance: Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
EuroUnderground Film Festival / Independent Exposure: Krakow, Poland; Sofia, Bulgaria; Prague, Cech-Republic
Berkeley Video & Film Festival: Best Experimental Video