Elimination Dance
1998 Canadian short film
- September 12, 1998 (1998-09-12) (TIFF)
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Elimination Dance is a 1998 Canadian short drama film.[1] Directed by Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and Michael Ondaatje based on Ondaatje's poem of the same name, the film stars McKellar and Tracy Wright as a couple in a jazz dance competition, in which various couples are eliminated as the announcer (Michael Turner) calls out various elimination criteria drawn from Ondaatje's poem.[2]
Other people appearing in the film as non-speaking dancers include Meryn Cadell, Carole Pope, Laura Bertram, Valerie Buhagiar, Chas Lawther, Anna Stratton, Duke Redbird, Ryan Black, Esta Spalding, Leah Cherniak, James Allodi and Clement Virgo.
The film premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 19th Genie Awards in 1999.[4]
References
- ^ John Haslett Cuff, "Thirty-two short things about Don McKellar". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 1998.
- ^ Craig MacInnis, "Forever an outlaw". Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 1998.
- ^ Marc Horton, "The omnipresent Don McKellar". Edmonton Journal, September 14, 1998.
- ^ "Major Genie nominees". Vancouver Sun, December 8, 1998.
External links
- Elimination Dance at IMDb
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Films directed by Bruce McDonald
- Roadkill (1989)
- Highway 61 (1991)
- Dance Me Outside (1994)
- Hard Core Logo (1996)
- American Whiskey Bar (1998)
- Elimination Dance (1998)
- Picture Claire (2001)
- The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)
- The Tracey Fragments (2007)
- Killer Wave (2007)
- Pontypool (2008)
- This Movie Is Broken (2010)
- Trigger (2010)
- My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010)
- Hard Core Logo 2 (2010)
- The Husband (2013)
- Hellions (2015)
- Weirdos (2016)
- Dreamland (2019)
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