Eaux d'artifice
About Eaux d'artifice
Carmilla Salvatorelli, in an eighteenth-century dress, walks the water gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Fountains throw water over stone and statues. No one speaks. Kenneth Anger shot it through a red filter so the daylight reads blue, and cut the walk to Vivaldi.
Cast & crew
More about Eaux d'artifice
Anger directed, photographed, and produced the short in 1953. Salvatorelli is the only figure. The music is Vivaldi. The running time on the record is 12 minutes.
Themes
Look
Anger photographs the fountains and the walk through a heavy red filter, which turns the garden blue.
Music
The picture is cut to music by Antonio Vivaldi.
Preservation
Prints survive.
Notes
- The blue image is a red filter, not a blue stock.
- The location is the Villa d'Este, not a studio fountain.
- Salvatorelli is uncredited on some cards and billed as the lady on others.
- There is no dialogue.
Scenes
- Salvatorelli moves between jets of water while the filtered image stays blue.