Obsessed with Light

Directors: Zeva Oelbaum & Sabine Krayenbühl

Executive Producers: Denise Benmosche, Elizabeth Rodriguez Chandler, Ruedl Gerber, Susan Margolin,

Consulting Producer: Cynthia Kane

Status: In Production

Obsessed with Light is a film about transformation. It's about a Midwestern vaudeville performer, born during the Civil War, who became a world-famous star of Belle Époque Paris with her elaborate productions of ephemeral, shape-shifting abstractions. It's about a woman, described by contemporaries as "odd and badly dressed," who transformed herself into the "Fairy of Light" onstage. It's about a visionary who disrupted the prevailing notions of dance and the imagined limits of the human body. And it is about a driven perfectionist who was unapologetic about her appearance, sexuality, ambition, personal limitations and humble beginnings.(more)