“He Who Dances on Wood” (2016) is a documentary short, under six-minutes long, produced and directed by Brooklyn-based, Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir. Fred started taking lessons but he didn’t have a place to practice. So he found a piece of wood and started taking it to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. And she made “He Who Dances on Wood,” a luminous homage to making do with what’s at hand, to the vocation of art, and most particularly to the glorious Fred Nelson. You can have so much joy tapping on a piece of wood under a tunnel.”“I learned so much from him,” she continues.

Source: Ethiopian News September 01, 2023 13:05 UTC