Mary Ellen Bute's first color film tells a story in abstraction of an orange/red triangle imprisioned behind a grid of vertical and horizontal lines uner a sky-blue expanse, perhaps representing freedom. J.S Bach's Toccata (in D Minor) adds dramatic tension to the visual variable in motion. -Cecile Starr
DELUXE TWO-DISC EDITION
AVANT-GARDE 3 EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA 1922-1954
CAVALCANTI MAAS PETERSON BROUGHTON BUTE KESSLER WHITNEY KIRSANOFF MURPHY MARC'O WATSON HUFF
From THE Collection of THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND FROM THE RAYMOND ROHAUER COLLECTION
From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the '50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held...