Introducing a new film by Hanna Heiting
The proceeds of these sales go to a special fund to provide financial assistance for
individuals who wish to pursue healing and creative work with Emilie Conrad.
The DVD can be ordered through the Continuum Studio
$31 with free shipping, additional Sales tax applies to CA Residents.
Purchase via credit card by calling 310-593-4651 or if in the United States,
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See the website for EM Moves at www.emmoves.com, view the trailer, viewer comments and more.
To the Continuum Community,
Emilie moves the way Emilie moves and I am moved.
- from introductory poem to EM Moves
After years of collecting content and contemplating form, I have completed
EM Moves, my video portrait of Emilie Conrad, and it is ready to be released.
The initial release will be through the Continuum office. The proceeds of these sales will go to a special fund to provide financial assistance for individuals who wish to pursue healing and creative work with Emilie Conrad.
Many books and articles have been written about Emile Conrad and her visionary work, including Life on Land, her own encompassing and profound book, and volumes more will be written in the future. I am deeply indebted to her and to Bonnie Gintis and to Cherionna Menzam for putting such clear and defining words to difficult to define experiences.
EM Moves is a different kind of work. It is neither descriptive nor instructive.
My interests lie not in talking about Continuum but in finding ways to express as honestly and simply as I can what touched me most about it as a transformative and creative process.
Emilie Conrad's understanding of culture, body and the cosmos has changed my own philosophical investigation, but as a filmmaker, I am even more enamored with her unique gifts of communication. Emilie conveys information, both scientific and mystical, in all the myriad artistic means she commands. The fluttering of her articulate fingers, her passionate resonance with Nijinsky and her unpredictable bursts of humor transform every presentation and demonstration into a divine ancient and modern theatrical art.
In classes as well as performances, her life story brought me back to myself, just as her sound frequencies affected mine before I even did any sounding or movements of my own. The making of the film was not about documenting the precious fleeting moments, but rather a continuation of the movement that I felt inside me while watching her.
The film attained its form and structure when I made editorial decisions about the parts of her powerful and triumphant story that I chose to focus on, but it felt complete only when I was watching it for the thousandth and one time and found myself moving and breathing with it.
Moving. Moving still, still moved.
My deepest gratitude to Emilie Conrad for her genius and friendship, Yuval Ron for a brilliant score that pulls us into Emilie's magical universe, Rebecca Mark for her amazing map drawings of that magical universe, Tim Kitz for his meticulous photographic and editorial work and the Continuum Community for being.
Blessings,
Hanna