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Valse Triste (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Valse Triste' is a 1977 5 minute experimental collage film by Bruce Conner[https://www.worldcat.org/title/2002-bc-eight-16-mm-films-by-bruce-conner-1964-1981/oclc/55592401 2002 B.C. : Eight 16 mm films by Bruce Conner: 1964-1981-WorldCat.org] set to Jean Sibelius's piece of the same name.[https://lca.sfsu.edu/events/2019-04-17-013000-2019-04-17-033000/818887 An Evening with Celluloid|College of Liberal & Creative Arts]
Summary
An autobiographical take of the filmmaker's childhood in 1940s Kansas with sources that parallels his own life experiences.[https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/online-screening-bruce-conner/ Online Screening: Bruce Conner-SFMOMA]
Relation to Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976)
After finishing 'Take the 5:10 to Dreamland', Bruce Conner started working on this film, which he calls an extension of Take the 5:10 to Dreamland . Although he didnt have the same sound problems with this film, he decided to make it sepia-toned as well, so the two films go together as a pair. Some of the images of 'Take the 5:10 to Dreamland' are re-used. The dream is present again; the first shot is a little boy going to sleep, the images that follow are his dream about the past, full of trains, cars, factories, typical American suburbs and fences. Nature is almost absent here; we see images of men and industry, images in movement. The rhythm is quicker, and the sad but vivid waltz on the soundtrack give this film an entire other feel, less dreamlike and more specifically rooted in the nostalgic American past.
[http://michelle-silva.squarespace.com/news/2017/3/18/monthly-film-bulletin-1987-valse-triste MONTHLY FILM BULLETIN 1987|Valse Triste-BRUCE CONNER]
Influences
The film a homage to surrealist cinema and the trance films of Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Sidney Peterson.A.L. Rees; Bruce Conner and the found-footage film; Monthly Film Bulletin, 1987
The radio show 'I Love A Mystery' (a program Bruce loved as a kid to the tune by Sibelius) also influenced 'Valse Triste'.[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BX5_GsTcWrc A Symposium on Bruce Conner | MoMA LIVE]
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