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Altair
6.9
/10
66 Ratings

ALTAIR

Directed by Lewis Klahr
United States, 1995
Avant-Garde, Animation, Short

Synopsis

Offers a cutout animation version of color noir. The images were culled from six late ‘40s issues of Cosmopolitan magazine and set to an almost four-minute section of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” (looped twice) to create a sinister, perfumed world.

Synopsis

Offers a cutout animation version of color noir. The images were culled from six late ‘40s issues of Cosmopolitan magazine and set to an almost four-minute section of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” (looped twice) to create a sinister, perfumed world.