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Chinese Tambourine

Name: Chinese Tambourine
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 1994-03-29
Duration: 6 min

1994 · 0h 6m · Animation, Music

Skip it unless you're a devoted animation or classical music nerd. This experimental 1950s short is a gorgeous technical achievement—watercolor landscapes synced to Kreisler's violin—but it's pure mood-painting with zero narrative. Perfect for a museum exhibit or film class, not your casual Friday night.

Plot

A film miniature to classical music. An atmospheric film impression introducing the viewer to the aesthetic motifs of the Far East: a fan, a vase with Eastern ornaments, a Chinese teacup, fabric. A butterfly flies out of the opening fan and leads the viewer through details to panoramas of Chinese landscapes, only to return to the closing fan in the film's final sequence. The film image synchronized to the rhythm of Fritz Kreisler's music. The animated film, made in watercolor technique on paper, retains the character and delicacy of Chinese painting.

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