Sunday 13 November 2005, 15.00

Programme duration 130'

This programme brings together some of the very best black artists, choreographers, dancers and musicians working in the collaborative field of filmmaking. In these films the weight of black culture, history, identity and politics are illuminated by the lightness and possibility of movement and dance. The marriage of dance and film creates a very particular dynamic and dance-film is a naturally questioning form. The fusion investigates the nature of the body on the screen, how movement should be framed, what gesture can mean and how rhythm is exploited.

Playing in the Light is a showcase of the very best of the dance-film experiment and features work by Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Jonzi D, Isaac Julien, Michele Magema, Alison Murray and Harold Offeh.

The screening is comprised of two programmes with a half-hour break.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended