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Film, Video Web Page Eaux d'artifice English language translation title: Artificial waters / Alternate English language translation title: Water works

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About this Item

Title

  • Eaux d'artifice

Other Title

  • English language translation title: Artificial waters
  • Alternate English language translation title: Water works

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.

Names

  • Anger, Kenneth, film director, cinematographer, editor of moving image work
  • Salvatorelli, Carmilla, actor
  • Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741, composer

Created / Published

  • United States : Kenneth Anger, 1953 ; United States : Creative Film Society, Film-makers' Distribution Center, Film-makers' Cooperative.

Headings

  • -  Water

Genre

  • Experimental films
  • Fantasy films
  • Short films

Notes

  • -  English translation title from video artist Chris Meigh-Andrews' WWW site. Alternate English translation title from Western Connecticut State University WWW site, Hugh McCarney's Film and video art page.
  • -  Carmilla Salvatorelli.
  • -  Camera assistant, Thad Lovett ; music, Antonio Vivaldi.
  • -  Filmed in the Villa D'Este Gardens of Tivoli, Italy.
  • -  Theatrical projection print was also exhibited on the National Film Preservation Tour.
  • -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
  • -  Partially viewed.
  • -  Sources used: Renan, S. An introduction to the American underground film, p. 108; Curtis, D. Experimental cinema, p. 64; Eagan, D., America's film legacy, p. 48; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed March 23, 2018.
  • -  Renumbered: CSA 0067 to FSB 9601.

Medium

  • theatrical projection print 1 film reel of 1 (approximately 13 min., approximately 450 ft.) : sd., col. ; 16 mm.
  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 13 min.) : sd., col.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FSB 9601 (theatrical projection print)

Source Collection

  • Anger (Kenneth) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 94501943

Online Format

  • image
  • video
  • web page

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Chicago citation style:

Salvatorelli, Carmilla, Actor. Eaux D'artifice. editeds by Anger, Kenneth, Film Director, Cinematographeritor Of Moving Image Work, , composeds by Vivaldi, Antonio, Oser United States: Kenneth Anger, ; United States: Creative Film Society, Film-makers' Distribution Center, Film-makers' Cooperative, 1953. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/94501943/.

APA citation style:

Salvatorelli, C., Anger, K., ed. (1953) Eaux D'artifice. Vivaldi, A., comp United States: Kenneth Anger, ; United States: Creative Film Society, Film-makers' Distribution Center, Film-makers' Cooperative. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/94501943/.

MLA citation style:

Salvatorelli, Carmilla, Actor. Eaux D'artifice. ed by Anger, Kenneth, Film Director, Cinematographeritor Of Moving Image Work, , comp by Vivaldi, Antonio, Oser United States: Kenneth Anger, ; United States: Creative Film Society, Film-makers' Distribution Center, Film-makers' Cooperative, 1953. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/94501943/>.