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
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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