Lucas Hoving

Studio-filmed performance of Jose Limon's landmark 1949 ballet. Shot in 16mm Kodachrome, this is an Ektachrome reversal print. Made in 1951 for Brandon Films.

This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century.