Eaux d'Artifice

Kenneth Anger's film follows an elegantly dressed woman as she walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, accompanied by Vivaldi's Winter from The Four Seasons. Heavy red filters give the light a blue cast, water plays across stone, and fountains send it into the air. No words are spoken. Baroque statuary and the sensuous flow of water are backlit. Anger calls it water games.