Le Bal is part of the artist's emblematic series of 'rip-off' paintings. In these collages of audio or VHS tapes, Hildebrandt creates complementary positive and negative versions of the same motif. Ettore Scola's film Le Bal (Ballando, ballando in Italian, 1983) is recorded on the work's VHS tapes. It portrays a series of scenes retracing half a century of dance history: the 1930s, the Front Populaire, the Great War, the emergence of Rock'n'Roll, May 68 and Disco. Without dialogue, the film uses music and dance to tell the story.