Thoughts Out of Season

Artwork: 2006.25.1

Thoughts Out of Season

circa 1950 – 1952
Vintage film transferred to VHS and digital copy

"I did two films of a dancer, Katherine Litz. One was her dancing – or, it was material from her dance because we didn’t have a studio. I filmed outdoors near the lake. It was a dance she had done the previous year to Morton Feldman music called “Thoughts Out of Season.” She just repeated certain movements out of it because she was barefoot, and I did extreme close-ups in color. For the second film, we kind of improvised something. She had a long green fabric with golden silver in it, and she would do various dance moves." -Nicholas Cernovitch, BMCM+AC oral history interview
Katherine Litz
Copyright: The Estate of Nicholas Cernovitch
Gift of Nicholas Cernovitch