This is the third of three rare collaborations from the same year between Kirsanoff and Boris Kaufman, dp of Vigo at the time and would later go on to lens 12 Angry Men, all music pieces that would probably have screened before a feature; music videos we would call them now.
The element is once more water. No story this time. A pianist begins to play, making a bare tree blossom. A girl in a long white dress dances on a stage before projected images of water that takes a myriad rippling forms. Another image shows her floating on air among clouds.
It's a short piece, avant-garde at the time but wouldn't look out of place in a video these days, we've come so far. Kirsanoff's element shows through; water, woman, the swirl of form in unison, both water and body. Why he never made more films will remain a mystery, our loss.
The element is once more water. No story this time. A pianist begins to play, making a bare tree blossom. A girl in a long white dress dances on a stage before projected images of water that takes a myriad rippling forms. Another image shows her floating on air among clouds.
It's a short piece, avant-garde at the time but wouldn't look out of place in a video these days, we've come so far. Kirsanoff's element shows through; water, woman, the swirl of form in unison, both water and body. Why he never made more films will remain a mystery, our loss.
