219450
219450

Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

1937-09-05
7
en 4m
Animation
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.

Original Music Composer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Director

Mary Ellen Bute

Cinematography

Ted Nemeth

Production Design

Mary Ellen Bute

Director

Ted Nemeth

woman director abstract short film visual music

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Expanding Cinema