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Eaux d'artifice / directed, conceived, photographed, and edited by Kenneth Anger.
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Eaux d'artifice (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism.
- Experimental films.
- Fountains.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file
- Other Title:
- English language translation title: Artificial waters
- Alternate English language translation title: Water works
- Selections from the National Film Registry.
- Place of Publication:
- United States : Kenneth Anger, 1953 ; United States : Creative Film Society : Film-makers' Distribution Center : Film-makers' Cooperative.
- Summary:
- A poetic fantasy that follows a mysterious masked woman clothed in 18th-century dress as she walks along the paths in the Villa d'Este gardens among the fountains in the moonlight, finally becoming one with the water. Music from Vivaldi's Four seasons is played in the background.
- Participant:
- Marmilla Salvatorelli.
- Credits:
- Camera assistant, Thad Lovett ; music, Antonio Vivaldi.
- Notes:
- English translation title from video artist Chris Meigh-Andrews' website (http://www.meigh-andrews.com). Alternate English translation title from Hugh McCarney's Film and video art website (http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva).
- Theatrical projection print was also exhibited on the National Film Preservation Tour.
- Filmed in the Villa D'Este Gardens of Tivoli in Rome, Italy.
- This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
- Not viewed.
- Sources used: Renan, The American underground film, p. 108; Curtis, Experimental films, p. 64.
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