Cirque du Soleil IRIS (2013)

This production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical fanciful kinetic foray into the seventh art Bringing together dance acrobatics live video filmed sequences and animation the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres taking them into the heart of the moviemaking process From illustration to animation black andwhite to colour silent films to talkies fixed shots to swooping camera movements spectators witness the poetic constructiondeconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality