Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler(1968)

Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler Synopsis

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His interest and education (at Columbia) was in music, painting, and poetry. His effort was to merge these three: “to squeeze sound and picture out of the same tube – to weave a cloth with warp as sound, woof as picture, and meaning the fabric itself."

Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler (1968) is a music and animation film directed by Barry Spinello, released on January 1, 1968 with a runtime of 10m.