The level of detail is incredible, with some sort of gag in nigh-on every shot, be it in dialogue, movement or set dressing.
The key was to choose one angle, the most effective shot, and then to work and rework all the elements: framing, light, dialogue, movement, gesture.
In the last decades of his life, he was a distinctive voice in the meetings of the interfaith dialogues movement where he argued for an acceptance of the equality of all faiths.
The story is all dialogue and movement.
B/olero is an austere duet for two women, a dialogue of movement from the supportive to the competitive.
Their collaboration, "New Work for Goldberg Variations," features seven dancers sharing the stage with Ms. Dinnerstein in a riveting dialogue of movement and music.
This ambitious new production, performed Friday night at Gould Hall, retells her story through dialogue and movement, with the actress Patricia Conolly as the lead.
"We hope that our efforts are not lost," the two men said Wednesday, "and that we somehow created a dialogue and movement on the feasibility of first-run, network-quality content online".
In the traditional manner of gospel musicals, the actors' dialogue and movement are stylized enough to underscore the show's ritualistic underpinnings but without the performers' warmth being compromised.
But everything else about the work is brazenly and triumphantly new: Philip Feeney's electronic score, the almost all male casting, the stripped-back precision of Sophie Charalambous and Adam Silverman's designs, the renovation of storytelling through a layering of spoken dialogue and movement.
Malas is probably the most highly regarded living Syrian director – he is still based in Damascus as far as I know – and this film is heavily influenced by Tarkovsky in the use of long, contemplative dream and memory sequences where time is as important an expressive element as space, dialogue or movement.
