“An archetypal example of David Bordwell’s ‘parametric narration’ where style trumps narrational drive, Statues is much more than a screendance. It is the ultimate work of art, or a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, as Richard Wagner would call it. Fusing dance, sculpture, the portrait, and film all together, Statues obfuscates the boundaries of the form as statues and portraits become mobile. Its sound mixing and soundtrack empower the images presented, while luring us into a transcendental state of madness and eeriness. Edgar Allen Poe meets film, dance, and ultimately, blackness.”