Floria (1974)

Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse Ondine as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccinis Tosca Freely mixing melodramatic gestures from his actors with a ruined soundtrack of static and fullon textural experiments that simulate decayed nitrate film bursting with color or fading to white Jacoby finds emotional release in repeating Floria Toscas leap to her death A visual feast from the former painter who shows a creative command of celluloid both figural and abstract Marilyn Ferdinand