Tango (1981 film)

Tango is a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński.^[2] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Academy Awards.^[3] It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short.^[4]

Tango
Directed by	Zbigniew Rybczyński
Written by	Zbigniew Rybczyński
Produced by	Zygmunt Smyczek
Cinematography	Zbigniew Rybczyński
Edited by	Barbara Sarnocinska
Music by	Janusz Hajdun
Production companies	Film Polski Studio Se-Ma-For[1]
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	8 minutes
Country	Poland

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^[5][6]

See also

• Independent animation
• Cinema of Poland
• 1981 in film