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| Tarantella | |
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| Directed by | Mary Ellen Bute |
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| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tarantella is a five-minute color, avant-garde animated short film created by Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneer of visual music and electronic art in experimental cinema.
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With piano accompaniment by Edwin Gerschefski, "Tarantella" features rich reds and blues that Bute uses to signify a lighter mood, while her syncopated spirals, shards, lines and squiggles dance exuberantly to Gerschefski's modern beat. Bute produced more than a dozen short films between the 1930s and the 1950s and once described herself as a "designer of kinetic abstractions" who sought to "bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding with the … rhythmic cadences of music." Bute's work influenced many other filmmakers working with abstract animation during the 1930s and 1940s, and with experimental electronic imagery in the 1950s.
National Film Registry
In 2010, the film was selected for listing in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
References
- ^ "Hollywood Blockbusters, Independent Films and Shorts Selected for 2010 National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
- "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
This article incorporates public domain material from 2010 National Film Registry Announced - News Releases (Library of Congress). Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
External links
- Tarantella essay by Lauren Rabinovitz at National Film Registry
- Tarantella at IMDb
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