Tarantella (1941)

Directed by

Ted Nemeth, Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren

Genre

experimental film, absolute film

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This five-minute animated short uses abstract shapes and colors that move and morph in time with a musical score. It creates a visual interpretation of sound through dancing forms and shifting patterns.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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