30 Exercises in 6 Movements

Performer Gregory Sporton and composer Jonathan Green, filmed by Keir Williams circa 2006 present the work of Sanford Bennett, a late 19th Century crank, or unsung visionary depending on who you believe, who developed an exercise system to ward off ageing and fatigue.

Bennett's determination that the process of aging was far from natural echoes Descartes idea three centuries earlier that we die because we think we will...Giving Bennett's work the digital treatment tests his claims that an objective truth about the body was being obscured by our dependence on culture.

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