Color Cry (1953)
- Directed by
- Len Lye
- Genre
- abstract animation film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A short abstract film uses light and shadow cast through fabric stencils to create moving patterns. The images are set to a blues song by Sonny Terry that evokes the pain of a runaway slave.
experimentalpulsinghauntingrhythmicvisceralabstracthypnoticdarksyncopated
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