Credits

Music by Mary Finsterer
Animation by David Cox
Assistance by Andrew Boucher,
Soo Ling Chong,
John Hardy
Thanks to
Lucia Tancredi

Segments

TATLIN by Velimir Klebnikov

Tatlin,
Initiate of Whirling Blades
And austere singer of the screw propellor!
One of the order of sun-catchers
With a mighty hand has bent the iron horse shoe
To knot the spidery veil of rigging
Dumb and blind
The pincers look into the heart of secrets
Which he has demonstrated
Just as unsung
And possessed of deep knowledge
Are the tin objects
Which he has worked with a brush



Director's note:

Tatlin reputedly carried the original paper copy of this poem
everywhere he went in his pocket.