1974 | United Kingdom | Experimental

Aerial

  • No dialogue 4 mins
  • Director | Margaret Tait
  • Writer | Margaret Tait
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Touches on elemental images ; air, water, (and snow), earth and fire (and smoke) all come in to it. The track consists of a drawn-out musical sound, single piano notes and some natural sounds’.‘Yes, really a very simple film, if you allow yourself to respond to it instead of trying to follow it intellectually. There is no narrative and no argument, it seems more like a musical theme conjured out of the whole rather than presented as point to be taken. There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- structure is more like musical structure than anything else

Air Nature Elements Poetry Silence
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