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The Dante Quartet (1987)

The Dante Quartet poster
Directed by
Stan Brakhage
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Runtime
6 min
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is an experimental short film inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. It presents abstract images and colors over six years of production. There is no traditional story or characters.

abstractintensemeditativefreneticvisually densenon-narrativecontemplativeexperimental

What happens

The Dante Quartet is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, completed in 1987. The film was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, and took six years to produce. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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