The ability to comprehend the vastness of the cosmos is limited by the confines of the human form. This inability to access the unknowable, this void of communion, leaves a space of desire. An emptiness yearning to be filled.

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In the film “Collapse | Body | Form” we enter the inner world of a pole dancer who fills this void by harnessing corporeal constraints.

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Utilizing dance and movement as a means of transformation, cosmological scale and human scale are coalesced into one.

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The gestures of the dancer directly correlate to the five phases of star formation, creating a conceptual transgression from anthropomorphic forms into planetary phenomena:

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Gravity pulls, gasses coalesce. The body is crushed, a dense orb is formed. Pressure builds, bipolar outflows burst. Atoms fuse, materials is expelled. After millions of years, a star cluster begins to take shape

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Using motion capture technology, the film removes the veil between digital and physical. Creating a scale of understanding that tugs at the edges of the sublime and reflects that the universe is not just vast, it is intimate.

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