Her Magnum Opus

Marta Renzi

Choreographer Marta Renzi, a prolific director of shorts, makes an auspicious feature debut using a cast culled from the worlds of film, Broadway, and dance, creating a dreamlike story of friendship told almost entirely through movement.

DIRECTOR
Marta Renzi
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
61 minutes

Q&A with director Marta Renzi and cast members

A group of friends gather to celebrate the teacher who has been a constant in their lives and whose little country house had been a refuge for them over the years. Choreographer Renzi, a prolific director of shorts, makes an auspicious feature debut using a versatile cast culled from the worlds of film, Broadway, and dance, creating a dreamlike story of friendship told almost entirely through movement. New York theater and dance performer Aileen Passloff appears as a version of herself. New York Premiere

Preceded by:
Rhizophora
Julia Metzger-Traber and Davide De Lillis, Germany, 2015, 17m
New York Premiere
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