Social Skills

Henry Hills is among the film artists who (like Abigail Child) marries frenetically fast image montage with split-second music and sound editing: the changes in rhythm and mood stream so fast they create a giddy delirium in the spectator. SOCIAL SKILLS provides Hills with the perfect subject: discontinuous fragments from a 60-day class in liberated body movement led by David Zambrano in Belgium. The soundtrack does the splits between disco funk and cartoon noise effects. Is it dance, childlike play, or the Utopian vision of a community of negotiated differences? It is all of these things at once. (Adrian Martin)

In the presence of Henry Hills.
This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 5: SOCIAL SKINS.