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Name: Dwightiana
Genre: Animation
Released: 1959
Duration: 3 min

3m runtime

19593mAnimation

Animation film with a runtime of 3 minutes, released in 1959. Presented in English.

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Runtime3m

Minutes3

One SittingYes

With Break15m

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Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She used his drawings as flats.The remarkably contemporary soundtrack for steel drum, guitar, flute, and voice was written for the occasion by Maya Deren's young husband, Teiji Ito, and is available in his album Music for Maya (Tzadik). Stan Brakhage called Dwightiana a pioneer example of the film portrait, abstract rather than narrative (the colored pencils represent Ripley's palette). Ripley was also a botanist, and Menken's unusual title alludes to botanical nomenclature as if Dwightiana might be the name of a species as well as a work "about" Dwight.

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Runtime3m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break15m

Movie Facts

Release Year1959

Runtime3m

LanguageEnglish

GenresAnimation

DirectorMarie Menken

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