Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler (1968) is a music, animation film directed by Barry Spinello.

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."