Eaux d'Artifice

Eaux d'Artifice (1953)

A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi's Winter movement of The Four Seasons plays. Heavy red filters give a blue cast to the light; water plays across stone, and fountains send it into the air. No words are spoken. Baroque statuary and the sensuous flow of water are back lit. Anger calls it water games.

Date of release
1953-01-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (49)
Runtime
13m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kenneth Anger
Collection
The Magick Lantern Cycle

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Villa d'Este

Eaux d'artifice (1953) is a short experimental film by Kenneth Anger.

Production

The film was shot in the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy. The actress, Carmilla Salvatorelli (not "Carmello"), was "a little midget" Anger had met through Federico Fellini. Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale, whereby the monuments seemed bigger (a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d'Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi).

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