ONE FLAT THING, REPRODUCED

The director of a dance film is inevitably confronted with the task of 'translating' from one medium to another. If it's a case of filming a "cult" choreography that pre-dates the film, the additional challenge is the "duty of recall" since the film of the choreography will carry with it, into some future time, the memory of its theatrical representation. One flat thing is rightly considered as one of William Forsythe's major works, in which the virtuosity of the performers rivals the ingenious complexity of the choreography (to the extent that this production has come to be known as "William Forsythe's olympics"! The film itself adopts a subjective approach, not exhaustive, a perspective that gathers and predetermines the sequence of production choices – in our view the best guarantee to have a chance of success in the transmission of the choreographic challenges. (source: https://www.charleroi-danses.be)