Plot Summary:To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a ...
Mary Ellen Bute's first color film tells a story in abstraction of an orange/red triangle imprisioned behind a grid of vertical and horizontal lines uner a sky-blue expanse, perhaps representing freedom. J.S Bach's Toccata (in D Minor) adds dramatic tension to the visual variable in motion. -Cecile Starr