Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

1937
4m

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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 triangl... Read allTo 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... Read allTo 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 ... Read all

Director
- Mary Ellen Bute

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6.7/10

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- Mary Ellen Bute

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planktonrules

Very strange.

This is yet another odd experimental film from the DVD collection "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941". Most of the films in this collection are very short and have almost no interest to the casual viewer. In other words, only weird cinemaniacs like me might find them of interest.

Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth made this film which consists various bars moving across the screen while geometric shapes appear and move. It's all set to Bach's Tocata and Fuge in D Minor and the color is very vibrant--and very early. You really cannot rate an art film like this and it's something you'll just need to see for yourself...provided you are the sort that might try seeing such an esoteric film.