The Dante Quartet (1987)

Directed by

Stan Brakhage

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 58 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 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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