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Record W7155518309 · doi:10.59236/emro.v27i8a264

Obsessed With Light

2025· article· W7155518309 on OpenAlex
Lonnie Frazier

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueEducational Media Reviews Online · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicDiversity and Impact of Dance
Canadian institutionsImpact
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerforming artsDancePresentational and representational actingNarrativePortraitPresentation (obstetrics)TRACE (psycholinguistics)Visual cultureSight

Abstract

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Distributed by Film MovementProduced by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva OelbaumDirected by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum2023, Streaming, 90 mins Obsessed with Light, directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, offers a vivid and rigorously researched portrait of Loïe Fuller, the turn-of-the-century performer whose innovations in light, fabric, and stage design transformed modern dance and visual culture. Too often dismissed in her own lifetime as a novelty act, Fuller’s groundbreaking work with movement and stage technology is here restored as a foundation for contemporary performance, fashion, and even popular culture. The film’s strengths are clear. Its extensive archival research is extraordinary, providing an unparalleled visual record of Fuller’s influence. The narration, voiced by Cherry Jones, grounds Fuller’s own words in a way that conveys her determination and her artistry. Equally strong are the interviews with choreographers, designers, and artists who trace Fuller’s creative life into the present, sharing compelling evidence of her ongoing impact. The editing balances these voices with archival material to build a narrative that feels both scholarly and alive. If the program has a weakness, it is its sheer density. My only reservation is its density risks overwhelming viewers, creating a sense of information overload that may challenge less specialized audiences. Still, for academic use, this rigor is a strength rather than a flaw. For classroom and library use, Obsessed with Light is particularly valuable. Its interdisciplinary scope spans dance, theater, film history, visual art, fashion, and gender studies, which makes it a strong fit across a wide range of curricula. The program resonates especially in courses examining artistic authorship, stagecraft, and women’s contributions to cultural history. Awards:DOC NYC, 2023 Nominee Grand Jury Prize; Cleveland International Film Festival, 2024 Nominee Ad Hoc Docs Competition

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.312
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.330 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it