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1973-01-01 Documentary 20mins

Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The original version was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

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Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The original version was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

  • Released
    1973-01-01
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    20mins
  • Genre
    Documentary, Animation
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    0
  • Production
    D'Avino & Fucci-Stone Productions

Crew

Carmen D'Avino
Director
Peter Le Donne
Writer
Keywords:
preserved film

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A Review by Geronimo1967 5

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2025-02-02

Given I saw his "Pianissimo" (1963) a while back I should have expected something abstract from Carmen D'Avino. Well I got it, and I will re... read more

Given I saw his "Pianissimo" (1963) a while back I should have expected something abstract from Carmen D'Avino. Well I got it, and I will readily acknowledge that I couldn't really make head nor tail to this amalgam of tinted images. It has a beginning and an end, but thereafter it's impossible to discern just what, if any, message he is trying to convey with this twenty minutes of random animation intercut with (some wartime) photographs all helped along by a score that would not have sounded out of place at a funfare. "Without purity, you're a dead duck" he informs us, but I struggled to find much evidence of purity (or ducks) here as it seemed to work itself into a self-perpetuating frenzy of colours and images. Maybe it's just too visually surreal for me, or maybe it's just emperor's new clothes for people to acclaim without having the faintest idea why. I would say watch it to see what you make of it, but like his work from a decade earlier, it made little sense to me and I found it a bit lengthy, too.

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A Review by CinemaSerf

Given I saw his "Pianissimo" (1963) a while back I should have expected something abstract from Carmen D'Avino. Well I got it, and I will readily acknowledge that I couldn't really make head nor tail to this amalgam of tinted images. It has...

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A Review by Geronimo1967 5

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2025-02-02

Given I saw his "Pianissimo" (1963) a while back I should have expected something abstract from Carmen D'Avino. Well I got it, and I will readily acknowledge that I couldn't really make head nor tail ...

read more