Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" accompanies images of common objects and abstract forms photographed in soft focus and through prisms: rings, pyramids, the staff of musical notes, and floating lights are all seen in multiple images, sometimes as if through a kaleidoscope, other times as if in animation.
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Is it worth your time? Honestly, that depends on your tolerance for 1930s experimental art. If you want a traditional story with characters you can root for, skip this. You will probably hate it. If you want to see how someone in the 30s thought music looked through a prism, you’ll dig it. It’s like a screensaver from ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Mary Ellen Bute
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, that depends on your tolerance for 1930s experimental art. If you want a traditional story with characters you can root for, skip this. You will probably hate it. If you want to see how someone in the 30s thought music looked through a prism, you’ll dig it. It’s like a screensaver from a dream. It’s only a few minutes long. You aren't losing much if you just sit down and stare at it. It’s pure visual noise, in a good way. The shapes are the stars There is this ..."
