Pianissimo (film)

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Movie
Original title Pianissimo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 6 minutes
Rod
Director Carmen D'Avino
production Carmen D'Avino
for Cinema 16
music Leonard Popkin

Pianissimo is an American stop-motion animated short film directed by Carmen D'Avino from 1963 .

action

A record player is playing a record called Pianissimo , but the record hangs. A short time later, an electric piano starts playing light music. In time with the music, objects in the room are gradually painted with brightly colored patterns, be it a cupboard, a sculpture or the piano itself. Cities and geometrical figures are created on the sheet of paper along the punched holes. In the end, room furnishings in the style of Flower Power are left behind. In the case of the record player that was also playing and was not painted, the record broke.

production

Pianissimo was released on January 1, 1963. The painter and avant-garde filmmaker D'Avino dedicated the film to the art expert Irwin Lefcourt and his wife Sarah.

The British Film Institute described the film as a vision of what could happen "if a mad painter were left in a room with a mechanical piano, record player and several buckets of paint".

Awards

Pianissimo was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1964 , but could not prevail against The Critic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "what could happen if a berserk painter were left alone in a room with a mechanical paino, a record player and several tins of paint." Cf. ftvdb.bfi.org.uk