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Ripples
Ripples
6.3
/10
144 Ratings

RIPPLES

Directed by Jim Henson
United States, 1967
Short, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind’s eye of an architect as he considers his next project.

Synopsis

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind’s eye of an architect as he considers his next project.

Our take

Following Wheels That Go, Jim Henson collaborated once again with electronic composer Raymond Scott for this enigmatic miniature made for Montréal’s Expo 67. Strikingly edited, and pregnant with symbolic imagery, Ripples is a one-minute burst of formal experimentation and abstraction.