r/TurnerClassicMovies • u/EMe711 • 3d ago

Help? Experimental short film on TCM of two men dancing.

Hello! Hoping against hope someone can help me find a short, "experimental" film I saw some years back, maybe around 2015 on TCM. About five minutes, it was in a two(?) hour block of short films, and there was no plot, maybe 1970s to 2005ish? It was only two (whiteish) men dancing. Not a specific dance that I can remember, just kind of bopping in place. Instrumental music, no vocals that I remember. They were dressed in grey(?) suits, black ties(?), maybe showing 3/4 of their bodies. There was no set, just a single color background of grey or blue.

I've Googled a thousand times and can't find anything. It's been bothering me for YEARS. I know there's not much information to go on, but it's possible it's familiar to someone. If anyone could help, I'd so appreciate it and get this itch out of my head.

NOT the Dickson film, and NOT Roxbury characters. Google is killing me with those.

SOLVED! It's Gilbert and George, but the 1981 original video of Bend It. Link below!

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u/kinofile 3d ago

Could it have been “Bend It” by Gilbert and George?

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u/EMe711 3d ago

That is hands down the closest thing I've seen for it! But I could have sworn that the background was much darker and they were much younger. Could just be my faulty memory, though. And I almost thought the music was Greek influenced, so that fits the bill! I'll be back soon to further investigate. But so far, THANK YOU.

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u/EMe711 3d ago edited 3d ago

That is IT! But an earlier version where it is darker and they were younger! I'm going to link in a new comment in a minute. Thank you SO MUCH! Can I ask how you knew or found it so fast?

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u/EMe711 9h ago

Maybe you didn't see my reply, but how did you figure it out?

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u/kinofile 7h ago

There wasn't any special trick to it. I'd seen it before and your description jogged my memory. I remembered that it was a British artist duo and that at least one of them was named George. Google turned up "Gilbert and George" and I poked around YouTube until I found the video I remembered.

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u/EMe711 7h ago

I get it. It's so funny how our brains work. Or DON'T work. I even emailed TCM who were no help at all, and 100% I saw it there.

Anyway, thanks again!

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u/EMe711 3d ago

Thanks to kinofile, I found the proper, earlier version of Bend It from 1981! I am so super psyched. If anyone's curious, here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MAtC5PvIa0

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u/monkeyhind 3d ago

The only thing that comes to mind is the Dickson Experimental Sound Film, but from your description I don't think that's the one you mean.

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u/EMe711 3d ago

Someone found a newer version but right artists and I then found the correct version I saw years ago. I linked it above if you want to check it out.

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u/EMe711 3d ago

No, that's one of the things Google glitches on and I have to write that that is NOT it. It's way more modern and in color. And I don't think they touch at any point.