Sentence

Rosemary Lee, Hugo Glendinning

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United Kingdom

English

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Rosemary Lee Director
Hugo Glendinning Director
Lauren Potter Key Cast
Isaac Lee-Kronick Music

Hugo Glendinning’s and Rosemary Lee’s short film Sentence evokes the ephemerality of dance through the experimental use of animation and slow shutter speed.

Shot in a former court room, breath like ghostly traces of the dancer Lauren Potter's movements blur into and out of the dark wooden panelling.

FIlmed in the isolated strange times of lockdown and set against a haunting sound-score by Isaac Lee-Kronick, Sentence suggests a mysterious yearning for permanence.

Hugo Glendinning is a photographer and filmmaker. His output stretches across the cultural industries from contemporary art to music, dance and theatre.

He is prolific and has developed close collaborative working practices with a wide range of international artists, notably Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, Paola Pivi, Martin Creed, Matthew Barney, Michael Clark, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Siobhan Davies, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Franko B, recording both performances for camera and gallery/studio/public events.

His documentary film making includes work on Anna Halprin, Tehching Hsieh - both with Adrian Heathfield - Miranda July and Tamara Al- Mashouk.

Recent Work:

2020 Second Self, Beethoven Resurrection - hybrid documentary feature film Dir Hugo Glendinning and Tilly Shiner, premiered with live orchestra at KunstFestSpiele Hannover.
2021 Catasterism - DOP Hugo Glendinning, Directed by Matthew Barney.
2022 Transparency - Siobhan Davies, David Hinton and Hugo Glendinning
2023 Sentence - Dir Rosemary Lee and Hugo Glendinning

Rosemary Lee is a choreographer and filmmaker and has been making work in a variety of contexts, constituencies, and media for four decades. These include site specific works in settings ranging from a disused tyre factory, a vast windswept beach, to the canopies of mature urban trees. She is known for working with professionals and non-professionals, from children to elders, working with soloists to huge casts. Her award-winning films include some made for BBC broadcast, (boy, greenman, Infanta -Anderson/Lee, Snow - Hinton/Lee) have been screened at galleries and festivals internationally and her installations ( Apart from the Road, Remote Dancing -Sandiland/Lee, Without -Lee, Liquid Gold is the Air, Orchard Portraits -Chesher/Lee) have toured to a variety of venues internationally. Her work is characterised by an interest in creating an intimacy with the audience through highlighting the humanity of her performers and their close relationship with the environment. Rosemary was awarded an OBE in 2023 and is a Senior Research Fellow at C-DaRE, Coventry University.