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A 10-minute poetry film inspired by the life of Tilly Losch. 2022. Digital video, 1000s of photographs.
"An intense and theatrical homage to Tilly Losch ... beautiful and exciting ... A worthy story being told at last." "The fast-paced, ever-evolving layering of imagery make this film a delight to watch and it remains engaging throughout." Commended by Judges Trisha McCrae and Charlotte Ginsborg, and awarded 3rd Place Audience Choice at Women Over 50 Film Festival 2022 “Mesmerising and thought provoking” Rosalind Davis, curator, artist & author of What They Didn’t Teach You In Art School “Absolutely brilliant ... simultaneously imitates and challenges our image-saturated culture of distraction” Dave Bonta, founder and editor of MovingPoems.com “A unique evocation of one woman's creative life and by extension the lives of so many creative women throughout time” Marie Craven, international award-winning filmmaker |
Since completing the film, Rosie and I were keen to explore a companion piece and translate our work into book form. It enabled us to explore the relationship between word and image in a different way, and to include a number of poems and material created for the project but that we couldn't include in the film in the final ten minute cut. The book is available at all good booksellers, including Blackwells in the UK, Barnes & Noble in the US, and Amazon in Germany.
Available worldwide - online bookshops
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Who was Tilly Losch? Dancer, artist, choreographer, lover, wife, muse … Tilly seems a blur, glimpsed at the corner of the eye, dancing in and out of focus.
‘Because Goddess is never enough’ is a new and dynamic collaboration from award-winning artists: filmmaker Jane Glennie and writer/performer Rosie Garland. They ask questions about biographies of women (and their complex lives!) who fall into the footnotes, lost from history as so many women’s stories are, seen only through a patriarchal lens, illuminating and reclaiming women’s stories.
Tilly Losch was an Austrian dancer who worked with prominent, and cutting-edge, choreographers and artists in the UK and the US, from the West End to Hollywood. She was also a choreographer in her own right, who later turned to painting. Through moving images and poetry Glennie and Garland investigate the elusive and fragmentary nature of Tilly’s life, evoking the spirit of the 1920s–40s when she was at the peak of her fame.
The film is about self-worth, the authentic self, and the credibility of creative women – Losch was someone who was at times exploited yet determined to maintain a path of her own making despite the obstacles that were very much present in her era. The parallels of Losch and the way women are still portrayed in the in the 21st century through the lens of the media and by society forms a powerful and thought-provoking statement about female identity.
In a visually rich, painterly, and dreamlike film made from thousands of original images collaged together, these layered images consider the complexity of female identity both then and now: highlighting how far women have come in 90 years, and yet how far they still have to go to get recognition and true independence.
‘Because Goddess is never enough’ is a new and dynamic collaboration from award-winning artists: filmmaker Jane Glennie and writer/performer Rosie Garland. They ask questions about biographies of women (and their complex lives!) who fall into the footnotes, lost from history as so many women’s stories are, seen only through a patriarchal lens, illuminating and reclaiming women’s stories.
Tilly Losch was an Austrian dancer who worked with prominent, and cutting-edge, choreographers and artists in the UK and the US, from the West End to Hollywood. She was also a choreographer in her own right, who later turned to painting. Through moving images and poetry Glennie and Garland investigate the elusive and fragmentary nature of Tilly’s life, evoking the spirit of the 1920s–40s when she was at the peak of her fame.
The film is about self-worth, the authentic self, and the credibility of creative women – Losch was someone who was at times exploited yet determined to maintain a path of her own making despite the obstacles that were very much present in her era. The parallels of Losch and the way women are still portrayed in the in the 21st century through the lens of the media and by society forms a powerful and thought-provoking statement about female identity.
In a visually rich, painterly, and dreamlike film made from thousands of original images collaged together, these layered images consider the complexity of female identity both then and now: highlighting how far women have come in 90 years, and yet how far they still have to go to get recognition and true independence.
“Beautifully constructed, sparkly and gently provoking”
Jo Thomas, artist & researcher
Jo Thomas, artist & researcher
Rosie Garland is a writer of poetry, short and long fiction, and essays. Her latest poetry collection ‘What Girls Do in the Dark’ was selected as a Poetry Society Best Book of 2021, Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2021, and has been shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021. With a passion for language nurtured by libraries, she started out in spoken word, garnering praise from Apples and Snakes as ‘one of the country’s finest performance poets’.
The film also features professional dancer Natasha Jervis and voice actor Alison Glennie.
The film also features professional dancer Natasha Jervis and voice actor Alison Glennie.
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Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
Still Voices Film Festival, Ballymahon, Ireland. Bucharest Feminist Film Festival, Romania. Sunderland Shorts Film Festival, UK. Filmed Up, Home, Manchester, UK. 10th Athens International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece. Women Over 50 Film Festival, UK. Absurd Art House Film Festival, UK. WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, UK. At the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden. |
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