Ritual in transfigured time

Duration: 0:22:00

Year Published: 1946

Creator: American Federation of Arts.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Uses filmic means--such as varying camera speeds, the relating of gestures which were, in reality, unrelated, and the repetition of patterns so complex as to be unique in actuality--to confer a ritualistic quality on the actions and events shown. The camera also creates its own time relationships., A poetic psychological study achieved by acceleration and deceleration of time, relating of unrelated gestures, and repetition of complex patterns unrealizable in reality. A tragic picturization of the emotions linked to the intensity of a girl's frustrated search for companionship in the real and unreal world in which she lives.

Complete Record: , A poetic psychological study achieved by acceleration and deceleration of time, relating of unrelated gestures, and repetition of complex patterns unrealizable in reality. A tragic picturization of the emotions linked to the intensity of a girl's frustrated search for companionship in the real and unreal world in which she lives. , Uses filmic means--such as varying camera speeds, the relating of gestures which were, in reality, unrelated, and the repetition of patterns so complex as to be unique in actuality--to confer a ritualistic quality on the actions and events shown. The camera also creates its own time relationships.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.