Screening
Saburo Teshigawara: Bound and Other Dance Films
90 min
Saburo Teshigawara: Bound and Other Dance Films screens on 16 August 2026 at 16:00 at Alabama Kino in Hamburg.
Absolute Zero—a dance that strives toward zero. Saburo Teshigawara explores nothingness to ultimately arrive at absolute dance. This sounds paradoxical, yet it perfectly explains the very mindset that guides the Japanese avant-garde artist—dancer, choreographer, sculptor, and videographer—in his creative quest for the “seemingly impossible.” For that is precisely where he wants to go. He wants to turn the impossible into reality; he wants to make the air dance; he wants to transcend the void so that it crystallizes into pure poetry. “The Bound Man” is a parable about the power of art, the power of constraint, and the dialectic of freedom and bondage. A man is bound, and yet he moves with confidence and assurance.
Synopsis: TMDb.