Screendance in the gallery: Nearly all the film’s I’ve made in alphabetical order

This article explores what can happen when screendance exceeds its habitual form, extends out into the gallery, and folds into a book. Over the past decade, my work has focused on time within screendance as a form of stasis or suspension: as something that is simultaneously moving and still (Macdonald 2019, 2024). I have suggested that this combination of movement and stillness in the hybrid form of screendance has a particular capacity to evoke a sense of mortality and temporal precarity (Macdonald 2019, 2024). This article reflects on how this research was furthered within the making of a new piece called ‘Nearly all the films I’ve made in alphabetical order’ (Macdonald 2024), which reconfigures screendance within the material form of a book. The discussion prompts questions about the material form of screendance and its relationship to analogue sensibilities.