Eaux d'artifice

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Shot in black-and-white through red filters, Kenneth Anger's short avant-garde work Eaux d'artifice was filmed in the Garden of the Villa D'Este in Tivoli, Italy, a water garden of fountains and classical statuary. A woman dressed in 18th century period costume strolls through the park – her movements gradually becoming more frenetic until she seems to become one with the water. One of Anger's more elemental though highly stylized films, it focuses on the interplay of water, light and stone.

Eaux d'artifice was added to the National Film Registry in 1993.

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