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Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

Director: Marie Menken | USA 1961 | 5 min | 16mm | Without dialogue | with Willard Maas, Kenneth Anger

Detailed patterns of Moorish architecture and Spanish tiles, captured in one short day at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Marie Menken brings the arabesque forms to life with dynamic camera work. The rhythm of the movements in combination with the music of Teiji Ito unfolds a hypnotic effect in which visual poetry and artistic abstractions become blurred.

Loan of the film print with kind support of LightCone.