Costumed Dancer (1969)

As a senior at Yale College in 1968 Doob was invited to participate in the Scholars of the House Program a senior honors program that required students to create in lieu of regular classes a finished essay or project which must justify by its scope and quality the freedom which has been granted Rather than pursue a more traditional written work Doob initially chose to make a film an unorthodox approach that had not been previously attempted In the end Doob chose to make two films to fulfill the requirement beginning with COSTUMED DANCER The film is a progression of images of a dancer shot and printed on high contrast stock and stacked in the printer in a number of layers so as to create multiple images of the dancer moving from single image to multiple image in a kind of phasing It is cut to music composed by Doobs friend David Sewall who was the subject of one of Doobs later films LONDON SONGS 1972 Yale Film Archive