In Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon, exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery, London, a charismatic, ageing headmistress, played by Rita Tushingham, iconic star of British New Wave cinema, presides over the daily life of her charges. Her ...See moreIn Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon, exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery, London, a charismatic, ageing headmistress, played by Rita Tushingham, iconic star of British New Wave cinema, presides over the daily life of her charges. Her regard - sometimes tender, sometimes cool - is echoed by the camera's voyeuristic observations that accumulate in a series loose narrative vignettes. Played by both professional dancers and Olympic-level Pentathletes, this group of youths enact a fictitious form of the Modern Pentathlon through hybrid movements that are part dance, part sport, part experimental performance.
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