‘The most impressive and uplifting twenty minutes of television to come along in years. Sit back, think of your grandfather and relish the sheer joy of life these men hand us like a gift. Director Margaret Williams and choreographer Victoria Marks stretch the boundaries of ‘dance’ to the limit, their work spilling over with wit and wisdom.’

Time Out

MEN is an original dance film for television, conceived and filmed in the Canadian Rockies. It is a collaboration between choreographer Victoria Marks and director Margaret Williams whose previous films together include the highly acclaimed OUTSIDE IN (BBC/Arts Council) and MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS (Channel 4).

Filmed in both the stark beauty of the Canadian winter and the lush green of spring and summer, MEN contrasts nature's infinite time with the shortness of human mortality.

The cast of seven men, all in their sixties and seventies, live in and around Canmore, Alberta. They come from a variety of backgrounds - judge, miner, rancher - and have never performed before.

MEN won the Choreography for the Camera Award at Moving Pictures, Toronto, and the 1999 Screen Choreography Award at IMZ, Danse Screen Cologne.

CHOREOGRAPHER         

DIRECTOR                       

THE MEN                         

PHOTOGRAPHY          

MUSIC                          

ART DIRECTOR          

EDITOR                      

PRODUCER                  

Victoria Marks

Margaret Williams

John D. Bracco

Jim Bruce

Jack Fawkes

H. Alan Hipkins

Pete Kuzminski

Dave Robinson

Pat Slavin

David Scott

Mick Duffield

Margaret Williams

Andy Teirstein

Stephanie Matthews John Middlewick Anne Beresford

MJW Productions

1997   20'   Dance Film   ACE / BBC in association with Banff Centre for the Arts