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Tango (1980)

Tango poster
Directed by
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Genre
animation
Country
Poland
Runtime
8 min
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 109 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An empty room slowly fills with people of all ages moving in looping paths. Their actions overlap and repeat as the camera stays fixed, creating a busy and choreographed slice of life.

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What happens

Tango is a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Academy Awards. It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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