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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 byMary Ellen Bute, a pioneer ofvisual music andelectronic art inexperimental cinema.
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.[1]
In 2010, the film was selected for listing in theNational Film Registry by theLibrary of Congress.[1][2]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from2010 National Film Registry Announced - News Releases (Library of Congress).Library of Congress. RetrievedDecember 29, 2010.
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