What about Ida

Inspired from Mark Tompkins'”Nouvelles” itself inspired by Gertrude Stein’s “Ida”, this movie takes over some narrative process of the american novellist : extremely simple situations, narrative loops…

Ida is a woman who laughs, dances and monologues in search of her imaginary twin sister. She watches television and entrusts the remote control to her dog Love who flicks between different dance sequences. Finally, the picture of Ida appears on the screen, telling Ida who watches her, a story about a dog and sugar, while dancers wearing army fatigues invade the room. 

Inspired by the show Nouvelles by Mark Tompkins, in turn based on the novel Ida by Gertrude Stein, this film borrows, in its form and editing, a few narrative processes from the American novelist: extreme simplicity of situations, storytelling loops and associations of ideas. Mark Tompkins has long worked in the spirit of Stein: his dance is fluid and simple, often without “state”. And is it a pure coincidence that his company is called the International Dreams Association: IDA?

Source : Patrick Bossatti