Cinema in ¾ time

“Motion pictures”: 24 times a second, images flit through the projector to develop a life of their own on screen. Around 1900, the flickering images were also referred to as a “dance of pictures”. Since then, dance, music, motion and film have constantly played into each other’s hands. And the result is always more than the sum of its parts. The Viennese waltz is a case in point. Embodying the dreams and longings of the past, its presence on film reflects the relations between history and imagination, authenticity and cliché, art and artificiality.