Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 5, 1937

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Expanding Cinema

Director

Ted Nemeth,Mary Ellen Bute

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0028835