Another Worldy (1999)

Another Worldy opens with The Lucky Girls dancing atop a New York City skyscraper to the music of an allfemale band Among the many other dancers whose performances Thornton appropriates this troupe of young professional female 1940sera American dancers reappears throughout both versions of the film in seedy Algerian dives Russian outposts and Parisian cancan establishments A preternatural luck seems to take them everywhere in space and in time with infinite energy Yet as their various world travels were most likely filmed on the same sound stage they are likewise emblems of a flimsy utopia In this void there is no sound or rather the original sound of the allfemale band is replaced by a techno beat that uncannily seems to have belonged there all along punctuating the regulated paroxysms of ultimate global unitypromised in the image but deferred through the neverresolving beat