Obsessed with Light

Category: Movies •

Genre: Documentary •

Rating: 8

Director: Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl,

Writer:

Cast: Cherry Jones,

Language: en

Country: USA

Release Date: November 21, 2023

Plot: Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She transformed into the "Fairy of Light", was taken up (especially in her Serpentine Dance) by Georges Méliès and Alice Guy and influenced René Clair's early films.