Tango (1981 film)

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| director = Zbigniew Rybczyński

| producer = Zygmunt Smyczek

| writer = Zbigniew Rybczyński

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| music = Janusz Hajdun

| cinematography = Zbigniew Rybczyński

| editing = Barbara Sarnocinska

| studio = Film Polski
Studio Se-Ma-For[https://archive.org/details/tango_20170601 Tango: Rybczynski, Zbigniew: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive]

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| released = {{Film date|1981||}}

| runtime = 8 minutes

| country = Poland

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Tango is a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński.[https://archive.org/details/1983Tango 1983 Tango: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Academy Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1983 |title=1983 |publisher=Oscars.org |date= |accessdate=2017-04-14}} It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short.[https://journal.animationstudies.org/dirk-de-bruyn-dancing-into-acoustic-space/ Dirk De Bruyn – Dancing into Acoustic Space]

Summary

The film depicts an initially empty room. A ball bounces in through the window, and a boy enters to retrieve it and leaves. This series of actions repeats over and over, gradually accompanied by more and more repeating paths of different people through the room. The film ends with the people eventually leaving the room and the boy throws the ball through the window one last time, landing near an old woman lying down. She then gets up, picks up the ball and leaves through the door near her.

Accolades

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3BDAvM1FqY Short Film Winners: 1983 Oscars][http://www.zbigvision.com ZBIG VISION]