Jazz Dance (1954)

Release Date: 1954-09-04
Runtime: 0h 22min
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Roger Tilton

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.