Eröffnung Moovy Tanzfilmfestival mit Meg Stuart

Moovy Dance Film Festival Opening

October 4, 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Filmforum NRW at the Museum Ludwig, Bischofsgartenstraße 1, 50667 Cologne

Sulphur Edges

Directed and Choreographed by Meg Stuart

U.S.A. 2025, 60 min

Bodies teeter on the threshold: between rigidity and trembling, composure and relaxation, public space and private reflection. Movement arises through relationships: with temperature, texture, invisible forces, and one another. The edges of architecture, voice, and presence are constantly permeable. Imagination flickers in the in-between, where a pool becomes a portal, a ruin becomes a score, and attention becomes the actual work.

The performers react intuitively to their surroundings, guided by Meg Stuart. The camera moves alongside them as a choreographic partner, tracking tensions between bodies, places, and atmospheres. What remains? A record of relationships—provisional, porous, and deeply alive.

“Sulphur Edges” travels through the thermal water pools of São Miguel in the Azores, through swimming pools at the water’s edge facing the ocean, and through the remains of a mine and a hotel. In this process of sensing, listening, and transmitting, they are co-performers.