Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 5, 1937

Runtime

0h 4m

Genres

Animation

User Score

71%

Original Title

Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

Production Companies

Expanding Cinema

Director

Mary Ellen Bute

Description

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.