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Filmmaker Bruce McDonald Clears Dance Floor by Process of Elimination

We’re big fans of Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald’s tripped-out linguistic zombie flick Pontypool, currently playing at Cinema Village. (Edelstein described it as “Wittgensteinian.â€) The film once again proves the staggering versatility of its director, who has also given us such genre-bending exercises as the deconstructionist coming-of-age flick The Tracey Fragments, the mock-rock doc Hard Core Logo, and the neo–road-movie Highway 61. So we’re excited to offer McDonald’s 1998 short Elimination Dance, which starts off looking like a meet-cute romantic comedy and then turns into something infinitely weirder, an absurdist roundelay that becomes a hilarious and sad allegory of modern love. You may also recognize co-writer and co-star Don McKellar, a regular from numerous Atom Egoyan films, not to mention an acclaimed director himself (Last Night, Childstar).

Filmmaker Bruce McDonald Clears Dance Floor by Process of Elimination